Oracle America, Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Howard Hall

Milan Merhar

Ilia Sokolinski

Christopher Cochrane

Stephen Ferrari

Mark A Parenti

Wai Chuen Yim

William R Stronge

Douglas A Wood

Kevin Faulkner

Stanley Luke

David Kopper

Rod DeKoning

George J Grosner

Mitchell Condylis

Erick Crowell

Glenn Virball

Kevin Broas

John Considine

A method for accelerating TCP/UDP packet switching. The method involves determining whether exception processing is necessary; if not, the packet is forwarded to a special stack for expedited processing. Packets requiring exception processing are forwarded to the conventional stack.

TCP/UDP acceleration

Disclosed are improved methods, devices and systems for storage management in digital networks.

Switching systems and methods for storage management in digital networks

Switching system for managing storage in digital networks

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide distributed storage systems that are scalable, secure, available, and manageable. These storage systems may utilize a single storage switch and allow resource sharing while securely separating customer data. A snapshot capability may be provided to capture a point-in-time image of the stored data and to track changes made to the stored data relative to a point-in-time image.

Systems and methods for providing snapshot capabilities in a storage virtualization environment

A system and method for provided a switch system () having a first configurable set of processor elements () to process storage resource connection requests (), a second configurable set of processor elements capable of communications with the first configurable set of processor elements () to receive, from the first configurable set of processor elements, storage connection requests representative of client requests, and to route the requests to at least one of the storage elements (), and a configurable switching fabric () interconnected between the first and second sets of processor elements (), for receiving at least a first storage connection request () from one of the first set of processor elements (), determining an appropriate one of the second set of processors for processing the storage connection request (), automatically configuring the storage connection request in accordance with a protocol utilized by the selected one of the second set of processors, and forwarding the storage connection request to the selected one of the second set of processors for routing to at least one of the storage elements.

Switching system

Methods and systems consistent with certain aspects related to the present invention provide a digital network having a plurality of data storage elements, at least one client, and a switch element. The switch element may be operable to receive access requests from the client and provide access to data on the storage elements in response to one or more access requests.

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Groton, MA, United States of America

Howard Hall