E8 Storage Assigned Patent

E8 Storage Systems Ltd., Ramat Gan, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,800,661) developed by Ori, Zivan, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “distributed storage over shared multi-queued storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for data storage includes, in a system that includes one or more storage controllers, multiple servers and multiple multi-queue storage devices, assigning in each storage device server-specific queues for queuing data-path storage commands exchanged with the respective servers. At least some of the data-path storage commands are exchanged directly between the servers and the storage devices, not via the storage controllers, to be queued and executed in accordance with the corresponding server-specific queues.”

The patent application was filed on July 13, 2015 (14/797,272).