Mellanox Assigned Patent

Mellanox Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,459,957) developed by Sella, Omer, Timrat, Israel, Hayut, Ofer, Kvutzat Yavne, Israel, Haviv, Yaron, Tel Mond, Israel, Mula, Liron, Ramat Gan, Israel, Bloch, Noam, Bat Shlomo, Israel, Getter, Nir, Haifa, Israel, and Shachar, Ariel, Jerusalem, Israel, for a “offloading node CPU in distributed redundant storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A network interface includes a host interface for communicating with a node, and circuitry which is configured to communicate with one or more other nodes over a communication network so as to carry out, jointly with one or more other nodes, a redundant storage operation that includes a redundancy calculation, including performing the redundancy calculation on behalf of the node.“

The patent application was filed on June 25, 2013 (13/925,868).