System and method for maintaining and accessing information...

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2005-02-28

2010-11-23

Hafiz, Tariq (Department: 2182)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Input/output access regulation

C370S229000, C370S254000, C709S217000, C709S220000, C709S223000, C709S225000, C709S238000, C710S052000, C710S062000, C710S065000, C710S107000

Reexamination Certificate

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07840723

ABSTRACT:
Systems, methods, apparatus and software can make use of standard input/output (I/O) interface commands to make information about virtual storage devices available to clients of those virtual storage devices. Where the storage virtualization is carried out using a switch, router, or other storage network appliance, the information about virtual devices is stored (and in many cases determined and/or processed) local to the device. Applications operating on the storage clients can conveniently access the information using I/O interface commands and need not have access to some or all of the software or functionality that virtualizes the storage.

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