Proximal Data Assigned Patent

Proximal Data, Inc., San Diego, CA has been assigned a patent (8,504,757) developed by Thomas R. Bolt, San Diego, for a “method for translating virtual storage device addresses to physical storage device addresses in a proprietary virtualization hypervisor.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method to translate virtual storage device addresses to physical storage device addresses without the cooperation of the proprietary virtualization hypervisor is disclosed herein. The method of the present invention allows additional functionality to be added to the I/O processing of a closed/proprietary virtualization hypervisor by third party software or physical storage devices on the basis of individual virtual storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on March 3, 2013 (13/783,390).