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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:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2012
Applicants:
Michael G. Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Sohail Hameed, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Michael G. Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Sohail Hameed, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A given port at a storage controller is used for communication with storage devices. In response to an indication that at least a portion of the given port is to be dedicated to a group of at least one of the storage devices, the storage controller divides the given port into multiple smaller ports.