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US 7,594,049 · App. 11/472,677 · Granted Sep 22, 2009

Application program interface access to hardware services for storage management applications

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Patent No.
US 7,594,049
App. No.
11/472,677
Granted
Sep 22, 2009
Kind
B1
Abstract

A method and device for using a set of APIs are provided. Some of the functions which used to be performed by software are now accelerated through hardware.

Claims (8)

1. A storage virtualization engine, the engine comprising:

a software sub-engine having a control path;

a virtualization repository;

a hardware sub-engine having an accelerated path;

an interface coupling the software sub-engine with the hardware sub-engine,

whereby a function is passed from the hardware sub-engine to the software sub-engine.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

the software sub-engine creates a new I/O plan which is passed from the software sub-engine to the hardware sub-engine.

Assignments (7)
MERGER Recorded Nov 8, 2015
From: PARSED CAPITAL CO., L.L.C.
To: XENOGENIC DEVELOPMENT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Reel/Frame 036985/0026 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE NAME OF THE ASSIGNOR PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 021109 FRAME 0379. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE NAME OF THE ASSIGNOR IS IVIVITY, INC. Recorded Mar 25, 2013
From: IVIVITY, INC.
To: NTH IP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030075/0224 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 28, 2012
From: QAZILBASH, ZULFIQAR
To: IVIVITY, INC.
Reel/Frame 029544/0062 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2012
From: GHOSH, SUKHA; DALAPATI, DEBASIS; JAIN, ARVIND
To: IVIVITY, INC.
Reel/Frame 029044/0679 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2012
From: NTH IP CORPORATION
To: NTHIP INC.
Reel/Frame 028553/0059 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 9, 2012
From: NTHIP INC.
To: PARSED CAPITAL CO., L.L.C.
Reel/Frame 028515/0461 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 18, 2008
From: IVITIY, INC.
To: NTH IP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021109/0379 →