Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-11
2008-10-28
Ellis, Kevin (Department: 2187)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Specific memory composition
C709S229000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07444468
ABSTRACT:
A storage has NAS and SAN functions and a high degree of freedom to configure a system to reduce the management and operation cost. The storage includes a plurality of interface slots in which a plurality of interface controllers can be installed, a block I/O interface controller which has SAN functions and which can be installed in the slot, a file I/O interface controller which has NAS functions and which can be installed in the slots, a storage capacity pool including a plurality of disk devices accessible from the interface controllers, and a storage capacity pool controller to control the storage capacity pool.
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Kitamura Manabu
Matsunami Naoto
Sonoda Koji
Yokohata Shizuo
Ellis Kevin
Farrokh Hashem
Hitachi , Ltd.
Townsend and Townsend / and Crew LLP
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