Pavilion Data System Assigned Patent
High availability storage
By Francis Pelletier | April 26, 2022 at 2:00 pmPavilion Data System, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,288,122) developed by Fleisher, Eugene, Siruno, Ray, San Jose, CA, Kanthadai, Sundar, and Satish, Venkeepuram R., Fremont, CA, for a “high availability storage system.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage server includes a plurality of solid state drives (SSDs), a plurality of input/output (IO) controllers, and a plurality of fabrics. Each fabric is configured to provide a fully connected mesh topology that connects each of the plurality of IO controllers to each of the plurality of SSDs. Each fabric comprises a management controller, a first switch layer comprising a first plurality of switches coupled to the plurality of IO controllers, and a second switch layer comprising a second plurality of switches coupled to a) the first plurality of switches and b) the plurality of SSDs, The first switch layer and the second switch layer together provide the fully connected mesh topology that connects every IO controller of the plurality of IO controllers to every SSD of the plurality of SSDs.”
The patent application was filed on October 30, 2020 (17/086,216).