Pavilion Data Systems Assigned Patent

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,652,182) developed by Malwankar, Kiron Balkrishna, Vellanki, Srinivas Prasad, and Ravi, Hemanth Srinivas, Saratoga, CA, for a “shareable virtual non-volatile storage device for a server.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed are a system, a method and/or an apparatus of a shareable virtual non-volatile storage device for a server. In one embodiment, the system includes a server, a storage array, a management processor, and a switching fabric. The storage array includes a storage device coupled with a controller associated with a shared driver to receive a data request from the server at a remote location from the storage array through the switch fabric via a communication link to direct the data request to the storage device coupled with it and transmit data to the server through the switch fabric. A virtual storage device is generated in the server to enable the server to share the shared driver in the storage array with other servers through the switch fabric between the server and the storage array. The server distributes the data across the storage devices through the shared driver.“

The patent application was filed on January 31, 2013 (13/755,643).