Patents by Inventor Steve R. Schremmer

Steve R. Schremmer 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).

  • Patent number: 7228361
    Abstract: A system and method are described for increasing performance of operations implemented in a storage system utilizing fibre channel, such as by enabling full duplex opens when a JBOD/bridge is involved. In an aspect of the present invention, a method of performing a full duplex open in a fibre channel network having an initiator and a bridge may include initiating an open by the initiator with the bridge. The bridge has a primary physical address and an alias physical address. The alias physical address represents a target device communicatively coupled to the bridge, wherein the open is initiated utilizing the primary physical address. The initiator communicates with the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Louis H. Odenwald, Jr., Steve R. Schremmer