iodyne Assigned Patent

iodyne LLC, Mill Valley, CA, has been assigned a patent (11693578) developed by Shapiro, Michael W., Mill Valley, CA, and Ferreira, Jeffrey Paul, San Mateo, CA, for “method and system for handoff with portable storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage device for providing data storage services to a source host and a destination host includes persistent storage and a controller. The controller obtains a handoff initiation request for a handoff of storage resources of the persistent storage allocated to the source host, the handoff initiation request specifies that the storage resource is to be handed off to the destination host, in response to obtaining the handoff initiation request: quiesces the storage resource, terminates use of the storage resource by the source host after quiescing the storage resource, after terminating the use of the storage resource by the source host, connects the destination host to the storage resource, and after connecting the destination host to the storage resource, enables use of the storage resource by the destination host.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-02-11 (17/669650).