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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Melvin James Bullen, Reston, VA (US);
Steven Louis Dodd, Reston, VA (US);
William Thomas Lynch, Apex, NC (US);
David James Herbison, Arvada, CO (US);
Melvin James Bullen, Reston, VA (US);
Steven Louis Dodd, Reston, VA (US);
William Thomas Lynch, Apex, NC (US);
David James Herbison, Arvada, CO (US);
Ring Technology Enterprises, LLC, Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
A storage system that may include one or more memory devices, a memory interface device corresponding to one or more of the memory devices, which are organized in sections, a section controller, and a switch. The switch is capable of reading a data request including a data block identifier and routing the data request and any associated data through the switch on the basis of this data block identifier, such that a data request may be routed to a memory section. The section controller, in response, determines the addresses in the memory devices storing the requested data, and it transfers these addresses to those memory devices storing the requested data.