Mellanox Assigned Patent

Mellanox Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,696,942) developed by Kagan, Michael, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, Bloch, Noam, Bat Shlomo, Israel, Raikin, Shlomo, Moshav Ofer, Israel, Haviv, Yaron, Tel Mond, Israel, and Burstein, Idan, Karmiel, Israel, for a “accessing remote storage devices using a local bus protocol.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for data storage includes configuring a driver program on a host computer to receive commands in accordance with a protocol defined for accessing local storage devices connected to a peripheral component interface bus of the host computer. When the driver program receives, from an application program running on the host computer a storage access command in accordance with the protocol, specifying a storage transaction, a remote direct memory access, (RDMA) operation is performed by a network interface controller, (NIC) connected to the host computer so as to execute the storage transaction via a network on a remote storage device.“

The patent application was filed on March 17, 2014 (14/215,097).