NEC Assigned Patent

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (8,966,199) developed by Nagano, Hiroaki, Tokyo, Japan, for a “storage system for data replication .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system includes a replication source storage device equipped with a replication source storage unit storing replication target data, and a replication destination storage unit which is provided to a replication destination storage device and is a replication destination of the replication target data, which are connected with each other over a network. The replication destination storage unit is equipped with a host bus adapter which is an interface for connecting the replication destination storage unit with the network. Each of the replication source storage device and the host bus adapter provided to the replication destination storage unit is equipped with a connection device which uses the network, located between them, as an extension of a bus of the replication source storage device, and connects the replication source storage device and the host bus adapter provided to the replication destination storage unit with each other.“

The patent application was filed on March 7, 2011 (13/635,301).