Mellanox Technologies/Nvidia Assigned Two Patents

Storage protocol emulation in a peripheral device
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, (acquired by Nvidia Corp.) has been assigned a patent (11934333) developed by Duer, Oren, Kohav Yair, Israel, and Goldenberg, Dror, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, for a “storage protocol emulation in a peripheral device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A peripheral device includes a host interface and processing circuitry. The host interface is configured to communicate with a host over a peripheral bus. The processing circuitry is configured to expose on the peripheral bus a peripheral-bus device that communicates with the host using a bus storage protocol, to receive, using the exposed peripheral-bus device, Input/Output (I/O) transactions that are issued by the host, and to complete the I/O transactions for the host in accordance with a network storage protocol, by running at least part of a host-side protocol stack of the network storage protocol.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-03-25 (17/211928).

Enhanced storage protocol emulation in peripheral device
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, Israel, (acquired by Nvidia Corp.) has been assigned a patent (11934658) developed by Pismenny, Boris, Haifa, Isarel, Duer, Oren, Kohav Yair, Israel, and Goldenberg, Dror, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, for a “storage protocol emulation in a peripheral device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A peripheral device includes a host interface and processing circuitry. The host interface is to communicate with one or more hosts over a peripheral bus. The processing circuitry is to expose on the peripheral bus a peripheral-bus device that communicates with the one or more hosts using one or more instances of at least one bus storage protocol, to receive, using the exposed peripheral-bus device, Input/Output (I/O) transactions that are issued by the one or more hosts, and to complete the I/O transactions for the one or more hosts in accordance with one or more instances of at least one network storage protocol, by running at least part of a host-side protocol stack of the at least one network storage protocol.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-11-16 (17/527197).