US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 4 for "Method and apparatus for bringing an array port offline for executing in-flight I/O requests while rejecting upper layer protocol (ULP) messages" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,528, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for bringing an array port offline for executing in-flight I/O requests while rejecting upper layer protocol (ULP) messages" was invented by Krishna Deepak Nuthakki (Bangalore, India), Jaeyoo Jung (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system, comprising: receiving, at a storage processor that is part of the storage system, a notification that an array port in the storage processor is going to be brought offline, transitioning the array port into a first state in which...