Patents by Inventor Vamshi Tangudu

Vamshi Tangudu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Using a NIC as a network accelerator to allow VM access to an external storage via a PF module, bus, and VF module
    Patent number: 11736566
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Shoby A. Cherian, Anjaneya P. Gondi, Janakiram Vantipalli, Raghavendra Subbarao Narahari Venkata, Vamshi Tangudu
  • USING A NIC AS A NETWORK ACCELERATOR TO ACCESS AN EXTERNAL STORAGE
    Publication number: 20220100546
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shoby A. Cherian, Anjaneya P. Gondi, Janakiram Vantipalli, Raghavendra Subbarao Narahari Venkata, Vamshi Tangudu