Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Assigned Patent

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, has been assigned a patent (10,482,049) developed by Caporale, Patrick L., Cary, NC, Kolvick, Randolph S., Durham, NC, Patel, Pravin, Cary, NC, Pruett, Gregory B., and Vojnovich, Theodore B., Raleigh, NC, for “configuring NVMe devices for redundancy and scaling.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Configuring NVMe devices for redundancy and scaling includes: identifying, by a first SSD, (Solid State Drive) driver executing on a first CPU, `Central Processing Unit`, address space of a first SSD coupled to the first CPU by a first PCI, (Peripheral Component Interconnect) switch, the first PCI switch including one or more non-transparent bridges, `NTBs`, partitioning, by the first SSD driver, the address space of the first SSD amongst the NTBs of the first PCI switch and the first CPU, where each NTB is configured to translate CPU memory addresses received from a CPU into a drive address in the address space partitioned to the NTB, and partitioning, by the first SSD driver, a plurality of namespaces of the first SSD amongst the first CPU and the NTBs.”

The patent application was filed on February 3, 2017 (15/423,747).