OS Nexus Assigned Patent

OS Nexus, Inc., Mercer Island, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,304,879) developed by Umbehocker, Steven Michael, Mercer Island, WA, for a “high availability failover utilizing dynamic switch configuration.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Movement of storage access is orchestrated between systems by dynamically reconfiguring zoning of a storage fabric. A failover system can detect a failure of a first initiator system that is assigned to a target storage system using a zone table of one or more network switches that are communicatively coupled to the target storage system. Further, the failover system can reassign the target storage system to a second initiator system using the zone table in response to a detection of the failure of the first initiator system, wherein the second initiator system is determined to be communicatively coupled to the one or more network switches. Furthermore, the failover system can initiate an access, via the one or more network switches based on the zone table, of the target storage system by the second initiator system.“

The patent application was filed on March 11, 2013 (13/793,934).