Patent ID: 9330282
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of causing storage devices that are capable of storing computer-readable information to perform at least one action while communicationally disconnected from a computing device, the method comprising the steps of: communicationally coupling, to a first storage device, a card that comprises card instructions and that is physically distinct from, and separable from, the first storage device, the first storage device being part of an array o storage devices; communicationally disconnecting the first storage device from the array of storage devices; communicationally disconnecting the card from the first storage device; communicationally connecting a second storage device that is different from and independent of the first storage device to the array of storage devices; and communicationally coupling the card to the second storage device, thereby causing the card instructions to invoke firmware instructions to be processed by at least one processing unit of the second storage device, the processing of the firmware instructions by the at least one processing unit causing the second storage device to reacquire computer-readable information previously stored on the first storage device from other storage devices of the array of storage device, wherein the second storage device comprises firmware comprising the firmware instructions.