Cavium Assigned Patent

Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,529,773) developed by Hussain, Muhammad Raghib, Saratoga, CA, Murgai, Vishal, Cupertino, CA, Panicker, Manojkumar, Sunnyvale, CA, Masood, Faisal, San Jose, CA, Folsom, Brian, Northborough, MA, and Kessler, Richard Eugene, Northborough, MA, for a “systems and methods for enabling access to extensible remote storage over a network as local storage via a logical storage controller.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support elastic, (extensible/flexible) storage access in real time by mapping a plurality of remote storage devices that are accessible over a network fabric as logical namespace(s) via a logical storage controller using a multitude of access mechanisms and storage network protocols. The logical storage controller exports and presents the remote storage devices to one or more VMs running on a host of the logical storage controller as the logical namespace(s), wherein these remote storage devices appear virtually as one or more logical volumes of a collection of logical blocks in the logical namespace(s) to the VMs. As a result, each of the VMs running on the host can access these remote storage devices to perform read/write operations as if they were local storage devices via the logical namespace(s).“

The patent application was filed on February 11, 2016 (15/041,892).