Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,172,743) developed by Shi, Guangyu, Cupertino, CA, Wu, Jianming, and Choi, Byung, Fremont, CA, for a “scalable storage systems with longest prefix matching switches.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method performed by a switch, the method comprising receiving a request for a file from a client, wherein the file is located in a distributed storage system, extracting a directory for the file from the request, performing longest prefix matching, (LPM) of the directory against a forwarding information base, (FIB) to identify a port, wherein the FIB associates directories with ports of the switch, and forwarding the client request toward a server containing the file via the identified port, wherein the server is one of a plurality of servers in the distributed storage system.“

The patent application was filed on June 10, 2013 (13/913,654).