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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:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2004
Applicants:
Ahmad H. Tawil, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kevin T. Marks, Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Ahmad H. Tawil, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kevin T. Marks, Round Rock, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cluster network is disclosed in which of the storage drives of the network are distributed across the nodes of the network. Data is stored to the drives of the network according to a RAID storage methodology and without the necessity for shared external storage.