Pavilion Data Systems Assigned Patent

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,348,830) developed by Malwankar, Kiron Balkrishna, Saratoga, CA, Govindasamy, Raghuraman, San Jose, CA, and Melnic, Dan M., Los Gatos, CA, for a “virtual non-volatile memory express drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A processing device receives an input/output, (I/O) command generated by a process, the I/O command directed to a virtual storage provided to a host executing the process, wherein the virtual storage comprises a virtual non-volatile memory express, (NVMe) drive. The processing device generates a new I/O command based on the received I/O command and encapsulates the new I/O command into a message. The processing device sends the message to at least one of a remote NVMe storage device or a storage server comprising one or more remote NVMe storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on July 17, 2017 (15/652,106).