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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:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2004
Applicants:
Nam V. Nguyen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Daniel Moges, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Inventors:
Nam V. Nguyen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Daniel Moges, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cluster network is provided in which the storage enclosures of the network are grouped into storage sets or columns of storage enclosures. Each server node of the cluster network is coupled to an interface of the storage enclosure of each of the storage sets. The storage enclosure within each set are coupled together to provide a redundant peer communications link between the server nodes.