Patents Examined by Walter Devito
  • Maintaining a fabric name across a distributed switch
    Patent number: 9432754
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for distributing a fabric name to switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. A distributed switch membership distributed (DMFD) message is transmitted that includes names of all switching elements in the distributed switch, and further includes a fabric descriptor that contains the fabric name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Joachim Fenkes, Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Henry J. May, Daniel Sentler, Sudheer R. Yelanduru