Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Database and data structure management
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-08
2011-03-08
Mizrahi, Diane (Department: 2617)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Database and data structure management
C707S791000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07904482
ABSTRACT:
A system and method enabling transparent access to blocks, such as virtual disks, stored on a storage system using a file-based protocol. The system and method traps in-coming file-based protocol open commands to check for a predetermined modification to the file name. If the system and method detects the predetermined modification, then the virtual disk associated with the file name is exported to the client issuing the open command and the client receives a response from the storage system. The client, in response to receiving the response to the open command, creates a new device instantiation for reading and writing raw data to the virtual disk.
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Kimmel Jeffrey S.
Lent Arthur F.
Pawlowski Brian
Rajan Vijayan
Srinivasan Mohan
Cesari and McKenna LLP
Mizrahi Diane
NetApp, Inc.
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