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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2009
Stephen P. DE Groote, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Mark A. Bakke, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Bonny Parker, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Stephen P. De Groote, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Mark A. Bakke, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Bonny Parker, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for provided discovering a target device via one port of a plurality of virtual ports, creating a target data structure associated with the target device, and allocating a second port of the plurality of virtual ports to a host if the second port is available. In an embodiment, an initiator identifier for the host may be created based on a port number of the second port and a media access control address and sent to the target device to identify the host.