Patents by Inventor David Patrick Thompson

David Patrick Thompson 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 system to transfer data utilizing cut-through sockets
    Patent number: 8819242
    Abstract: A method and system to exchange information between computer applications are provided. The system may include a source operating system, a destination operating system and an offload stack, all residing on the device. The source operating system and the destination operating system appear to users as distinct network entities. The offload stack may be configured to function as an intermediate network device for the source operating system. The offload stack, in one embodiment, comprises a back end to receive a message from the source operating system to the destination operating system, an analyzer to determine that the destination operating system resides on the device and a cut though socket module to process the message such that a network layer of the offload stack is bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Bakke, David Patrick Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Paul Harry Gleichauf
  • Method and apparatus for accessing remote storage using SCSI and an IP network
    Patent number: 7522616
    Abstract: A storage router and method for creating a first session to a first information-handling system on a first network supporting IP packets, the network having a plurality of information-handling systems, creating a second session to the first information-handling system on a second network supporting IP packets, supporting iSCSI operations in the first session through an internet protocol (IP) port coupled to the first network, supporting management operations in the second session through an internet protocol (IP) port coupled to the second network, wherein the first and second sessions use a common IP layer, and preventing iSCSI operations from using the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: David Patrick Thompson
  • Session-based target/LUN mapping for a storage area network and associated method
    Patent number: 7506073
    Abstract: A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI command and data information from packets received through the IP port, wherein the SCSI router passes the extracted SCSI command and data information to the fiber channel port. Some embodiments further include a session to an information-handling system. The session supports a target-only mapping (wherein a source-specified target value is replaced by a mapped target value that is then passed by the SCSI router toward a first storage device and its LUNs), or target-and-LUN mapping (wherein source-specified target and LUN information is replaced by mapped target-and LUN information such as a loop-ID and LUN combination, a WWPN and LUN combination, or a WWNN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson
  • SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks
    Patent number: 7437477
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing Storage Area Networks over an IP network. A SCSI request is generated and encapsulated in one or more IP packets. The encapsulated SCSI request is routed over an IP network and received by a storage router. The storage router extracts the SCSI request from the one or more IP packets and routes the extracted SCSI request through a virtual SCSI router to the storage area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson, James D. Muchow
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM TO TRANSFER DATA UTILIZING CUT-THROUGH SOCKETS
    Publication number: 20080059644
    Abstract: A method and system to exchange information between computer applications are provided. The system may include a source operating system, a destination operating system and an offload stack, all residing on the device. The source operating system and the destination operating system appear to users as distinct network entities. The offload stack may be configured to function as an intermediate network device for the source operating system. The offload stack, in one embodiment, comprises a back end to receive a message from the source operating system to the destination operating system, an analyzer to determine that the destination operating system resides on the device and a cut though socket module to process the message such that a network layer of the offload stack is bypassed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Mark A. Bakke, David Patrick Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Paul Harry Gleichauf
  • Virtual SCSI bus for SCSI-based storage area network
    Patent number: 7281062
    Abstract: A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI command and data information from packets received through the IP port, wherein the SCSI router passes the extracted SCSI command and data information to the fiber channel port. Some embodiments further include a session to an information-handling system. The session supports a target-only mapping (wherein a source-specified target value is replaced by a mapped target value that is then passed by the SCSI router toward a first storage device and its LUNs), or target-and-LUN mapping (wherein source-specified target and LUN information is replaced by mapped target-and LUN information such as a loop-ID and LUN combination, a WWPN and LUN combination, or a WWNN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson
  • Session-based target/LUN mapping for a storage area network and associated method
    Patent number: 7188194
    Abstract: A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI command and data information from packets received through the IP port, wherein the SCSI router passes the extracted SCSI command and data information to the fiber channel port. Some embodiments further include a session to an information-handling system. The session supports a target-only mapping (wherein a source-specified target value is replaced by a mapped target value that is then passed by the SCSI router toward a first storage device and its LUNs), or target-and-LUN mapping (wherein source-specified target and LUN information is replaced by mapped target-and LUN information such as a loop-ID and LUN combination, a WWPN and LUN combination, or a WWNN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson
  • SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks
    Patent number: 7165258
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing Storage Area Networks over an IP network. A SCSI request is generated and encapsulated in one or more IP packets. The encapsulated SCSI request is routed over an IP network and received by a storage router. The storage router extracts the SCSI request from the one or more IP packets and routes the extracted SCSI request through a virtual SCSI router to the storage area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson, James D. Muchow
  • Method and apparatus for accessing remote storage using SCSI and an IP network
    Patent number: 6895461
    Abstract: A storage router and method for creating a first session to a first information-handling system on a first network supporting IP packets, the network having a plurality of information-handling systems, creating a second session to the first information-handling system on a second network supporting IP packets, supporting iSCSI operations in the first session through an internet protocol (IP) port coupled to the first network, supporting management operations in the second session through an internet protocol (IP) port coupled to the second network, wherein the first and second sessions use a common IP layer, and preventing iSCSI operations from using the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: David Patrick Thompson