Pavilion Data Systems Assigned Patent

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,285,995) developed by Malwankar, Kiron Balkrishna, Saratoga, CA, for a “processor agnostic data storage in a PCIe based shared storage environment.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A controller device associated with a disk array that comprises a plurality of storage devices and a processor receives a request from a host machine that is at a remote location from the disk array. The controller device determines that the request is a data request or a control request based on metadata of the request. Responsive to determining that the request is a data request the controller device converts a format of the data request from a first format to a second format that is compatible with the plurality of storage devices. The data request is then routed in the second format directly to at least one storage device of the plurality of storage devices.“

The patent application was filed on January 14, 2015 (14/597,094).