Mellanox Technologies/Nvidia Assigned Patent

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.,(acquired by Nvidia Corp.) Yokneam, Israel, has been assigned a patent (12147716) developed by Kahalon; Omri, Yokneam, Israel, Shalom; Gal, Givat Avni, Israel, Yehezkel; Aviad, Yokneam Ilit, Israel, Liss; Liran, Atzmon-Segev, Israel, Duer; Oren, Kohav Yair, Israel, Loulou; Rabie, Nazareth, Israel, and Gurtovoy; Maxim, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “methods and systems for inter-stack communication for logical volume management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and systems provided herein involve extracting an input/output (I/O) operation from a packet received over an I/O pipeline, the I/O operation comprising either a read request to read data from at least one storage device or a write request to write data to the at least one storage device; determining that an address associated with the I/O operation exists in a lookup table that is provided for thin provisioning of the at least one storage device; performing one or more RAID calculations associated with the at least one storage device based on the address and the I/O operation; and accessing the at least one storage device to perform the I/O operation based on the one or more RAID calculations; and second processing component configured to carry out a second set of operations that occur when the address associated with the I/O operation does not exist in the lookup table.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-01-27 (17/586417).