Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Assigned Patent

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, (Singapore) PTE. Ltd., New Tech Park, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (10,296,247) developed by Caporale, Patrick Leo, Cary, NC, Condict, Michael Neil, Hurdle Mills, NC, Cosby, David W., Raleigh, NC, and Hinkle, Jonathan Randall, Morrisville, NC, for “security within storage area network having fabric-attached storage drives, SAN agent-executing client devices, and SAN manager.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage-area network, (SAN) system includes one or more storage drives directly connected to a fabric. Each storage drive provisions and operates a drive volume, and creates a security token for the drive volume. The system includes a client computing device directly connected to the fabric, and that executes a SAN software agent to create, mount, and use a logical volume realized by drive volumes of the storage drives. The client computing device accesses each drive volume using the security token for the drive volume. The system includes a SAN manager directly connected to the fabric that manages the drive volumes of the storage drives, manages the logical volume that the SAN software agent operates, receives from each storage drive the security token for the drive volume of the storage drive, and sends the security token for the drive volume of each storage drive to the SAN software agent.”

The patent application was filed on November 21, 2016 (15/357,267).