Excelero Assigned Patent
Access for remote storage
By Francis Pelletier | October 27, 2020 at 2:13 pmExcelero Storage Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,788,992) developed by Romem, Yaniv, Mann, Omri, Jerusalem, Israel, and Oshri, Ofer, Kfar Saba, Israel, for “system and method for efficient access for remote storage devices.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A client device for accessing remote storage devices. The client device includes: a processing unit communicatively connected to: a network interface and a memory, the network interface configured to communicatively connect the client device to a network comprising the client device and a storage server, the storage server comprising one or more storage devices, a remote direct memory access network interface controller (rNIC) and a primary processing unit, the memory containing instructions, that, when executed by the processing unit, configure the client device to: send an input/output (I/O) request for a storage device of the one or more storage devices, receive an indication from the rNIC based on the sent I/O request, the indication including an interrupt generated by the rNIC in response to the I/O request.”
The patent application was filed on May 9, 2018 (15/975,379).