Mellanox /Nvidia Assigned Patent

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, (acquired by Nvidia Corp.), has been assigned a patent (11609700) developed by Rasal, Shridhar, Pune, India, Dewangan, Laxman Kumar, Hyderabad, India, Duer, Oren, Kohav Yair, Israel, Bar-Ilan, Eliav, Or Akiva, Israel, Varghese, Leslin, Madakkathara, India, Patel, Prateek, Indore, India, Kobti, Karem, Kafr Yasif, Israel, Yarlagadda, Krishna Kishore, Hyderabad, India, for “module and method for authenticating data transfer between a storage device and a host device“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One embodiment includes data communication apparatus including a storage sub-system to be connected to storage devices, and processing circuitry to manage transfer of content with the storage devices over the storage sub-system responsively to content transfer requests, while pacing commencement of serving of respective ones of the content transfer requests responsively to availability of spare data capacity of the storage sub-system, find a malfunctioning storage device currently assigned a given data capacity of the storage sub-system and currently assigned to serve at least one content transfer request, and reallocate the given data capacity of the storage sub-system currently assigned to the malfunctioning storage device for use by at least another one of the storage devices while the at least one content transfer request assigned to be served by the malfunctioning storage device is still awaiting completion by the malfunctioning storage device.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-10-20 (17/505670).