Pavilion Data Systems Assigned Patent
Architecture for flash storage server
By Francis Pelletier | November 5, 2019 at 2:16 pmPavilion Data Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,452,279) developed by Malwankar, Kiron Balkrishna, and Kishore, Karagada Ramarao, Saratoga, CA, for an “architecture for flash storage server.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage server comprises a plurality of solid state drives, (SSDs), a plurality of input/output, (I/O) controllers, a switch, and a management controller. A first SSD of the plurality of SSDs comprises a plurality of queue pairs. The management controller is to allocate a first subset of the plurality of queue pairs in the first SSD to a first I/O controller, wherein the first I/O controller is to use the first subset of the plurality of queue pairs to read from and write to the first SSD. The management controller is further to allocate a second subset of the plurality of queue pairs in the first SSD to a second I/O controller, wherein the second I/O controller is to use the second subset of the plurality of queue pairs to read from and write to the first SSD.”
The patent application was filed on July 26, 2017 (15/660,71











