Citrix Systems Assigned Two Patents

Managing data across plurality of storage devices based upon collaboration relevance
Citrix Systems, Inc., Bedford, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,583,662) developed by four co-inventors for “managing data across a plurality of storage devices based upon collaboration relevance.”

The co-inventors are Sean Callanan, Patrick J. O’Sullivan, Dublin, Ireland, Hema Srikanth, Cary, NC, and Carol S. Zimmet, Boxborough, MA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method of managing data storage according to collaborative activity can include determining collaborative activity for each of a plurality of data items associated with a first user and stored within a first data storage device. The method can include calculating a measure of relevancy for each of the plurality of data items according to the collaborative activity and comparing the measure of relevancy of each of the plurality of data items to at least one relevancy threshold. Different ones of the plurality of data items can be selectively migrated from the first data storage device to a second data storage device according to the comparison of the measure of relevancy of each of the plurality of data items.”

The patent application was filed on March 12, 2012 (13/417,359).

Modifying disk images to provide network interface card teaming capabilities
Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (8,627,056) developed by Moso Lee, Nashua, NH, for “methods and systems for modifying disk images to provide network interface card teaming capabilities.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for modifying a virtual disk to provide network interface card (NIC) teaming capabilities to a virtual disk. The system can include a virtual disk that has access to one or more NICs. In some instances, the NICs are included in a NIC team that is also available to the virtual disk. A teaming module executing on a computer can identify the NIC team and responsively obtain a media access control (MAC) address of the NIC team. In response to obtaining the NIC team MAC address, the teaming module can obtain a network boot MAC address that was used to PXE boot the virtual disk. The teaming module can then replace the NIC team MAC address of each NIC in the NIC team with the obtained network boot MAC address. The system then boots from the virtual disk that has the modified NIC team configuration.”

The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2013 (13/750,490).