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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Anurag Jain, Murphy, TX (US);
David A. Gillam, The Colony, TX (US);
Nandakishore Venkatesan, Plano, TX (US);
Douglas J. Santoli, Southbury, CT (US);
Frederick Crable, Allen, TX (US);
Patrick J. Hunt, Baltimore, MD (US);
Anurag Jain, Murphy, TX (US);
David A. Gillam, The Colony, TX (US);
Nandakishore Venkatesan, Plano, TX (US);
Douglas J. Santoli, Southbury, CT (US);
Frederick Crable, Allen, TX (US);
Patrick J. Hunt, Baltimore, MD (US);
EMC Company, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to provide command abstraction. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information on commands for a plurality of devices including devices of the same type having different command structures, receiving a generic command from a user directed to one of the devices of the same type, determining, using a computer processor, whether the generic command is supported, extracting parameters from the generic command, and generating from the extracted parameters and the generic command a device-specific command for execution by the one of the devices of the same type.