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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas E. LeCrone, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Martin J. Feeney, Medway, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and procedures are provided to enable large size fixed block architecture (FBA) device support over FICON. The FBA devices may have a size greater than 2 terabytes. For example, in known storage systems, an FBA device size may be 64 terabytes and an architecture provided for 512-terabyte devices, and the described system supports such large, or even larger, FBA devices. The system may be used with existing fixed block command sets.