Out of user space I/O directly between a host system and a physical adapter using file based linear block address translation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7577761
APP PUB NO 20070061493A1
SERIAL NO

11216832

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Enabling user space middleware or applications to pass file name based storage requests directly to a physical I/O Adapter without run-time involvement from the local Operating System (OS)is provided. A mechanism is provided for using a file protection table (FPT) data structure, which may include a file name protection table (FNPT) and file extension protection table (FEPT), to control user space and out of user space Input/Output (I/O) operations. The FNPT has an entry for each file managed by the OS′ file system and points to a segment of the FEPT. Each entry in the FEPT may include a protection domain, along with other protection table context information, against which I/O requests may be checked to determine if an application instance that submitted the I/O requests may access the file identified in the I/O requests.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Boyd, William Todd Poughkeepsie, US 24 1110
Hufferd, John Lewis San Jose, US 23 507
Mena,, III Agustin Austin, US 17 159
Recio, Renato J Austin, US 148 6220
Vega, Madeline Austin, US 42 785

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