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2006-11-14

2006-11-14

Nguyen, Hiep T. (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

C711S118000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07136972

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for distributed management in a storage system. The invention distributes increasingly complex storage management tasks to a message management module, a drive management module, a cache management module, and an interface management module to control operations of one or more storage devices, without depending on the availability of a “super” microprocessor. Furthermore, the invention provides for efficient inter-module communication through point-to-point passing of asynchronous queued messages and use of a centralized input/output context memory, such that all said modules may work in parallel independently and cooperatively, optimizing storage input/output performance at a reduced cost.

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patent: 2001/0047381 (2001-11-01), Meno et al.

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