Patents by Inventor Kevin Wurzer

Kevin Wurzer 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 for transferring data drectly between storage devices in a storage area network
    Publication number: 20060072580
    Abstract: A method and system for performing a copy operation between storage devices coupled to a Fibre Channel switch element is provided. The Fibre Channel switch element receives a user command to copy data from a source storage device to a destination storage device and controls the copying operation. The Fibre Channel switch acts as a SCSI initiator and initiates a write operation for the destination storage device and initiates a read operation for the source storage device; and uses an alias cache for intercepting messages between the destination and source storage devices. A RX_ID mapping cache is used to substitute a RX_ID so that that a Fibre Channel write target appears to the source storage device as the destination storage device, and to the destination storage device a Fibre Channel read target appears to be the source storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Dropps, Kevin Wurzer