Liqid Assigned Patent

Liqid Inc., Broomfield, CO, has been assigned a patent (10,585,609) developed by Cannata, James Scott, Denver, CO, and Breakstone, Jason, Broomfield, CO, for a “transfer of storage operations between processors.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage system is provided that includes a processor and a network interface having a tunneled network connection established with another network interface associated with another processor. The processor is configured to receive one or more packets indicating the network interface as a network destination and comprising a storage operation, and inspect at least a storage address included in a header of the one or more packets to determine that the storage operation corresponds to a storage drive managed by the other processor. The processor is configured to establish one or more further packets comprising the storage operation and having a header modified from the one or more packets to indicate a network address of the other network interface, and transfer the one or more further packets for delivery to the other network interface.”

The patent application was filed on February 4, 2019 (16/266,739).