Dell Assigned Patent

Dell Products, Round Rock, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,595,343) developed by Jacob Cherian, Austin, TX, and Don H. Walker, Georgetown, TX, for a “system and method for sharing storage resources.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ” A network includes a management module with a first root complex, a first server with a first endpoint coupled to the first root complex, and a second server with a second root complex, a second endpoint coupled to the second root complex, a third endpoint coupled to the first root complex, and a bridge coupled to the second endpoint and to the third endpoint. A method includes discovering a PCIe host bridge adapter (PHBA) and a storage resource coupled to multiple storage extents in a PCIe domain, creating a first virtual function on the storage resource and sending a first identifier for the first virtual function to the PHBA. A network interface device includes a PCIe endpoint that is coupleable to a PCIe root complex, another PCIe endpoint that is coupleable to another PCIe root complex, and a bridge that couples the first PCIe endpoint with the second PCIe endpoint.”

The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2008 (12/271,393).