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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:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2008
Applicant:
John Gifford Logan, Long Beach, CA (US);
Inventor:
John Gifford Logan, Long Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer systems and computer software are disclosed for implementing a control I/O offload feature in a split-path storage virtualization system. One embodiment is a method for providing split-path storage services to a plurality of hosts via a storage area network.