ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,983, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Local device identifiers in a storage network" was invented by Krishna Babu Puttagunta (Rocklin, Calif.), Chandrashekar Chikkalingaiah Manchanapura (Bangalore Karnataka, India) and Kirill Malkin (Berkeley Heights, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to storage networks. In some examples, a controller receives a packet sent from a source device to a destination device. The controller reads a local identifier of the source device at a first offset in the packet, where a global identifier of the source dev...