Wyse Technology (Dell) Assigned Patent

Wyse Technology L.L.C., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,409,494) developed by Vajravel, Gokul Thiruchengode, and Venkatesh, Ramanujam Kaniyar, Bangalore, India, for an “enabling redirection of mass storage devices of any interface.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Mass storage devices of any interface can be redirected to a server. When a mass storage device is connected to a client terminal, a client-side proxy can obtain information about the device including the interface by which the device connects to the client terminal. The proxy can relay this information to a server-side agent which can instruct a VMiniport enumerator to enumerate the mass storage device using the interface specified in the information. When the VMiniport driver is loaded, the agent can also use the information to cause the VMiniport driver and the storport driver to be initialized in accordance with the specified interface. The VMiniport driver and storport driver will therefore be configured to communicate IO requests targeting the mass storage device in a format appropriate for the interface.”

The patent application was filed on January 27, 2017 (15/418,131).