US Patent No: 6,446,141

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Storage server system including ranking of data source

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Abstract

A storage server comprising: a processing unit, a bus system coupled with the processing unit, including a plurality of slots, slots in the plurality of slots including interfaces to respective data stores; a communication interface; and an operating system coupled with the processing unit the operating system including: logic controlling transfers among the plurality of slots over the bus system according to an internal format, logic for translating a storage transaction received over the communication interface into the internal format, and logic for configuring the plurality of slots according to a configuration data.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
DELL PRODUCTS L.P.ROUND ROCK, TX1919

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Harris, Jr George W Mountain View, CA 11 621
Lane, Jerry Parker San Jose, CA 3 650
Merrell, Alan R Fremont, CA 4 699
Nespor, Jeffery S Pleasanton, CA 4 235
Nolan, Shari J San Jose, CA 10 590

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