NGD Systems Assigned Patent

NGD Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,929,206) developed by Costa, Hermes, Mission Viejo, CA, and Alves, Vladimir, Tustin, CA, for “system and method for outward communication in a computational storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method of facilitating communication from an embedded computer in a computational storage device to a host or an external device includes receiving a message from an embedded user process for transmission to a user process running at either the host or the external device, determining that a destination address of the message corresponds to the host or the external device, in response to the determination, forwarding the message to an embedded relay process associated with the host or the external device, instructing a storage controller of the computational storage device about the message to be delivered, notifying a host relay process at the host of a presence of the message, receiving a send message request from the host in response to the notification, and in response to receiving the send message request, transmitting the message to the host.”

The patent application was filed on October 15, 2019 (16/653,419).