Marvell Israel Assigned Patent
Transferring data between SSDs via connection between them
By Francis Pelletier | August 16, 2023 at 2:00 pmMarvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11698881) developed by Haimzon, Avi, Nes Ziona, Israel, Kardashov,Timor, Kiryat Ono, Israel, and Mizrahi,Noam, Modi’in, Israel, for “transferring data between solid state drives (SSDs) via a connection between the SSDs.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A first solid state drive (SSD) includes a built-in network interface device configured to communicate via a network fabric, and a second SSD includes a built-in network interface device configured to communicate via the network fabric. A connection is opened between the first SSD and the second SSD over the network fabric, where the first SSD is further communicatively coupled to the second SSD further over an interconnect associated with a host computer. The first SSD encapsulates a non-volatile memory over fabric (NVMe-oF) command to transfer data between the first SSD and the second SSD in a capsule and sends the capsule to the second SSD over the connection. The second SSD executes the NVMe command to transfer the data between the first SSD and the second SSD over the connection according to an NVMe-oF communication protocol and without transferring any of the data to the host computer.”
The patent application was filed on 2021-12-13 (17/549608).
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