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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Applicants:
Truong Nguyen, Vancouver, CA;
Heng Liao, Belcarra, CA;
Inventors:
Truong Nguyen, Vancouver, CA;
Heng Liao, Belcarra, CA;
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0028 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is directed at a method and apparatus for determining a distributed Serial Attached Small computer system interface (SAS) topology in a storage network system. Once a SAS storage network element, such as a SAS Expander, receives notification that a downstream SAS topology has changed, the SAS Expander queries all downstream SAS Expanders to update its route table.