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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. 03, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2011
Applicants:
Kazuhisa Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Makio Mizuno, Sagamihara, JP;
Dai Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage system includes a channel interface (IF) unit having an interface with a server, a disk IF unit having an interface with a hard disk group, a memory unit for storing data to be read/written from/to the server or the hard disk group, a switching unit, and the hard disk group. The channel IF unit, the disk IF unit, and the memory unit are connected to each other through the switching unit, and an encryption and decryption processing unit is provided between a host IF unit and a transfer controller in the channel IF unit.