QLogic Assigned Patent

QLogic Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,172,586) developed by Shah, Shishir, Irvine, CA, and Singh, Ajmer, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, for a “method and system for writing tag and data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computing device having a processor for executing an application for generating an input/output, (I/O) request for writing data to a logical object presented to the application, and a device interfacing with the computing device having a processor for generating a single I/O command for writing data in response to the I/O request and writing a tag that is associated with the data are provided. The tag includes an identifier for the logical object used for writing the data at a storage device and a logical address for a location at the storage device where the data is written. Furthermore, the tag is stored at a memory device of the device, while the data is stored at a local caching device, at a storage area network, (SAN) storage device or both.“

The patent application was filed on May 24, 2013 (13/902,427).