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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Shing Mark Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yen-Chung Lin, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/314 ;
Abstract

An invention is disclosed that maps a Fibre Channel address to a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) address. A data port is detected on a computer network system and a port target identifier is assigned to the detected data port. Next, a device coupled to the data port is detected and a logical unit identifier is assigned to the detected device. In addition, an Arbitrated Loop Physical Address (AL_PA) is obtained for the device. Further, an address database is constructed that includes a device entry for the detected device. The device entry includes the port target identifier and the logical unit identifier that were assigned to the data port and device. In addition, the device entry associates the AL_PA to the port target identifier and the logical unit identifier of the device.


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