QLogic Assigned Patent

QLogic Corp., Aliso Viejo, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,406,152) developed by Shishir Shah, Irvine, CA, for a "system and methods for presenting storage."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A machine implemented method is provided. The method comprises configuring a target port of a target storage array as a plurality of virtual ports; wherein an application executed by a computing system uses the target port to access storage space at the storage array; presenting the plurality of virtual ports to an OS instance executed by a computing system processor; and using the plurality of virtual ports to read and write information to the storage space of the target storage array."

The patent application was filed on March 23, 2010 (12/730,139).