NGD Systems Assigned Patent

NGD Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,360,829) developed by Costa, Hermes, Mission Viejo, CA, and Alves, Vladimir, Tustin, CA, for “system and method for communicating between computational storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of computational storage device intercommunication includes receiving a notification from a first storage controller of a first computational storage device indicating a presence of a message, in response to receiving the notification, transmitting a send message request to the first storage controller of the first computational storage device, and receiving the message from the first storage controller, storing the message to a host memory and notifying a host pseudo network device driver of availability of the message, determining whether a destination address of the message corresponds to a host user process that is local to the host or to a second user process that is local to a second embedded computer of a second computational storage device, and providing the message to the host user process or to the second embedded computer associated with the destination address.”

The patent application was filed on October 15, 2019 (16/653,431).