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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:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2008
Douglas E. Jewett, Round Rock, TX (US);
Adam J. Radford, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Bradley D. Strand, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Chung, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joel D. Jacobson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert B. Haigler, Newark, CA (US);
Rod S. Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas L. Couch, Woodside, CA (US);
Douglas E. Jewett, Round Rock, TX (US);
Adam J. Radford, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Bradley D. Strand, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Chung, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joel D. Jacobson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert B. Haigler, Newark, CA (US);
Rod S. Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas L. Couch, Woodside, CA (US);
Summit Data Systems LLC, Frisco, TX (US);
Abstract
A network-based storage system comprises one or more block-level storage servers that connect to, and provide disk storage for, one or more host computers. In one embodiment, the system is capable of subdividing the storage space of an array of disk drives into multiple storage partitions, and allocating the partitions to host computers on a network. A storage partition allocated to a particular host computer may appear as local disk drive storage to user-level processes running on the host computer.