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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185960 | System and method for managing access to adapter features Methods and systems for managing access to a host bus adapter (“HBA”). One embodiment includes licensable features stored in a feature module of the HBA. A user can access the licensable features after gaining permission. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185715 | Method and system for managing metadata in storage virtualization environment Method and system for managing metadata for a plurality of storage platforms that provide virtualization services is provided. The method includes requesting a memory chunk for storing metadata; wherein a data processing agent operating in a storage platform request... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185664 | System and method to restore maximum payload size in a network adapter Method and system for managing a maximum payload size (MPS) between a host system and an adapter is provided. The method includes storing a host maximum payload size (MPS) value of the host system as an adapter MPS value for the adapter operationally coupled to the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8155022 | Method and system for controlling power consumption in network nodes Method and system a first network node communicating with a second network node using a plurality of network links grouped as a trunk is provided. The method includes determining a peak data transfer rate for the trunk during a monitoring duration; comparing the pea... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8116311 | Method and system for tag arbitration in switches Method and system for a switch element is provided. The method includes (a) receiving a portion of a packet at a port of the switch element; (b) generating a tag based on an estimated packet size obtained from the portion of the packet; (c) sending the tag with the ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116206 | Method and system for routing frames in a network A method for routing frames is provided. The method comprises: receiving a frame at a receive port segment of a port for a switch element; generating a tag based on information included in the frame, where the tag identifies a location where the frame is stored in t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102769 | Method and system for network communication A method and system for network communication is provided. The method for network communication comprises setting a data size for a network connection, wherein the data size represents an amount of network data a network adapter can send to a host system for the net... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095978 | Method and system for managing ports in a host bus adapter A method and a host bus adapter (HBA) are provided. The HBA includes a first port that is enabled for use in a storage area network; and a second port that is enabled after a user acquires a transceiver with a security key, wherein the HBA firmware reads the securit... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089971 | Method and system for transmitting flow control information Method and system for network communication between a first port and second port using plurality virtual lanes provided. The method includes: (a) configuring a threshold value for each of the plurality of virtual lanes; wherein the threshold value defines an amount ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081650 | Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches A method for assigning virtual lanes (VL) in a fiber channel switch is provided. The fiber channel switch element includes a virtual lane cache that can compare incoming frame parameters based on which virtual lanes may be assigned; and a register to store parameter... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072988 | Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre channel systems using virtual and/or pseudo virtual lanes A method and system for distributing credit using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes, a wait threshold counter that is used to set up a status for a port that has to wait for certain duration to send a frame due to lack of buffer... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068482 | Method and system for network switch element Method and system for a network switch element is provided. The switch element includes a plurality of megaports, each megaport uniquely identified by a unique megaport address identifier for network addressing. Each megaport includes a plurality of operational port... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068338 | Network device with baffle for redirecting cooling air and associated methods A network device includes an airflow baffle. The baffle redirects cooling air toward a transceiver cage to increase a rate of heat transfer from electronic devices on the transceiver. The baffle is bi-directional, so that cooling air is redirected regardless of whet... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065454 | System and method for mapping functions to and from network devices using configuration compatible with an adapter by remapping plurality of logical ports of adapter An adapter having a plurality of functions and a plurality of ports, in which the mapping between functions and ports is configurable. In certain embodiments, device memory can be programmed with a desired mapping scheme that overrides a default mapping scheme for t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060682 | Method and system for multi-level switch configuration System and method to configure switch systems are disclosed. A switch system includes leaf modules with internal ports and spine modules with ports. A midplane includes first layers closer to a first side, second layers closer to a second side and third layers betwe... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055726 | Method and system for writing network data Method and system for writing data in a network is provided. The method includes receiving an original write command from a host system to write data to a target; sending a command notifying the host system to send data, wherein a local router sends the command to t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050260 | Method and system for load balancing in infiniband switches and networks A switch element and a method for routing packets in an IB Multi Level switch and network is provided. The method includes determining if alternate routing is enabled for a packet; determining an alternate route address for the packet, if alternate routing is enable... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8010809 | Method and system for securing network data Method and system for storing data in a storage device accessible through a storage area network is provided. The method includes receiving data from a host system; generating a first encryption key for encrypting data information that describes the received data; g... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005105 | Method and system for configuring fibre channel ports A fiber channel switch element for routing fiber channel frame is provided. The switch element includes a fiber channel port that can be configured to support plural data transfer rates. The data transfer rate may be 1 G, 2 G, 4 G, 8 G or 10 G. The switch element in... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004991 | Method and system for processing network information Method and system for processing TCP segments is provided. The method includes assigning a TCP connection to a queue; and assigning a maximum burst size for the TCP connection; wherein a queue establishes a priority for the TCP connection and the priority is based o... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990975 | Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre channel switch elements A fibre channel switch element and method for routing fibre channel frames is provided. The switch element includes a receive segment that can add a virtual storage area network (“VSAN”) tagging header to frames that are received by the receive segment; and stri... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983265 | Method and system for processing a network packet Method for and system validating a network packet is provided. The method includes receiving a network packet at a port of a network device, the packet including a first indicia value and a second indicia value; comparing the first indicia value of the packet with a... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983194 | Method and system for multi level switch configuration Switch systems and method to configure switch systems are disclosed. A switch system includes a first leaf module and a first spine module. The first leaf module includes a plurality of internal ports and external ports. The first spine module includes a plurality o... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970927 | Concurrent transmit processing A method and system for concurrent processing transmit requests uses transmit queue including a circular buffer and a queue state including a producer index, a consumer index, and a producer list. Producer processes write to the circular buffer concurrently. The pro... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962675 | Method and system for communicating with a host bus adapter Method and system for a storage area network is provided. The method includes sending a command from a management application executed in a first host system that executes a first operating system; receiving the command at a host bus adapter installed in a second ho... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936771 | Method and system for routing fibre channel frames A method and system for transmitting frames using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes a port having a receive segment and a transmit segment, wherein the fiber channel switch element determines if a port link has been reset; deter... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936753 | Method and system for reliable multicast Method and system for transmitting a multicast message with one or more packets to a plurality of destinations is provided. The system includes an adapter including an entry port to receive the multicast message from a source for transmission to the plurality of des... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930377 | Method and system for using boot servers in networks A method and system for booting a server and/or server blade in a network is provided. The system includes, a boot server that is used to store plural WWPNs, an active profile for the server and a boot schedule, wherein a HBA registers a default WWPN and/or HBA prof... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924859 | Method and system for efficiently using buffer space A method and system for transferring iSCSI protocol data units (“PDUs”) to a host system is provided. The system includes a host bus adapter with a TCP/IP offload engine. The HBA includes, a direct memory access engine operationally coupled to a pool of small bu... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920473 | Method and system for managing transmit descriptors in a networking system Method and system for managing transmit descriptors (TDs) for transmitting information over a network connection is provided. The method includes, allocating a minimum number of TDs to plural network connections at any given time; and determining an additional numbe... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7908404 | Method and system for managing network and storage data Method and system for processing storage and network packets is provided. The system includes a computing system executing a storage application for sending an input/output request for communicating with a storage device, the storage application transmits the I/O re... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907546 | Method and system for port negotiation Method and system for network communication between a first network port and at least a second network port is provided. The method includes establishing bi-directional communication between the first network port and the second network port using a first set of por... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907414 | Network device having levers and associated methods A network device including a module. A chassis supports the module. A lever is secured to an enclosure of the module by a pivot. In one embodiment a pivot axis of the lever is parallel to a major axis of the module. In another embodiment the enclosure includes a cle... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903660 | Protocol to implement token ID mechanism for network data transfer A receiving node sends a token identifier to the data source and receives data from the data source, along with the token identifier. A token identifier identifies a location in memory on the receiving node, but is not the same as an address in the memory. In the de... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903558 | Method and system for monitoring a network link in network systems Method for reporting bandwidth loss on a network link that couples a switch element to a network is provided. The method includes determining if credit is unavailable to transmit a packet and a packet is available at a switch port for transmission; determining bandw... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903557 | Multipathing using multiple endpoint addresses for load balancing in a network A method for balancing load on a network by selecting a path based on a load balancing algorithm and assigning one of several pairs of endpoint addresses for a flow based on the path selected. One pair of endpoint addresses corresponds to a first path and another pa... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7895390 | Ensuring buffer availability A buffer availability manager ensures that buffers are available before processes write thereto. The buffer availability manager maintains a plurality of register sets corresponding to the plurality of buffers. Each register set comprises a status indicator and a ge... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895300 | Systems and methods for testing device ports in a storage area network Method and system for configuring a switch element having a plurality of ports to operate as a test tool is provided. The method includes initiating a user interface with a plurality of selectable options, where a user selects one or more of the selectable options f... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894348 | Method and system for congestion control in a fibre channel switch A method and system for routing fiber channel frames using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes logic for comparing a credit counter value with a first threshold value to enable a credit limiting feature; and a first counter that r... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889749 | Cut-through decode and reliability Validation of various portions of received data, including validating a cut-through checksum found in a received data packet. The cut-through checksum is based on data found in a packet header, and thus can be validated before the entire packet is received. This fea... | 02/15/2011 |
