Patents by Inventor Vincet Guan

Vincet Guan 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).

  • Method and apparatus for mapping between a fibre channel network and an infiniband network
    Publication number: 20040024911
    Abstract: An Inifiniband (IB) network that incorporates a Fibre Channel (FC) network is disclosed. The IB and FC networks are coupled by a gateway that maps the FC network to a virtual IB network. In generating the virtual IB network, the gateway may provide a virtual IB target for each node port in the FC network, and may further provide a minimum number of virtual IB switches necessary to support the virtual IB targets. The gateway assigns a globally unique identifier (GUID) to each of the virtual IB targets, and may further associate local identifiers (LID) with the virtual IB targets. The gateway preferably emulates subnet management agents (SMA) and general service agents (GSA) of the virtual IB targets when management IB packets are received, and the gateway preferably converts non-management IB packets directed to the virtual IB targets into FC frames directed to the corresponding target FC devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Chung, Dennis Makishima, Brian Forbes, Howard Green, Vincet Guan, Grant Erickson