Shin Young Hwang

US Patent:

7860943, Dec 28, 2010

Filed:

Feb 23, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/360331

Inventors:

Shin Hwan Hwang - Irvine CA, US
Han Kyu Lim - Seoul, KR

Assignee:

Zhe Khi Pak - Moscow

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709217

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for providing a storage medium accessible across a network to a host. The storage medium's operation is generally controlled by a network disk controller. The network disk controller may receive a packet from a remote host, decapsulate the packet, and act on the packet to either transmit data from a storage medium or write data to a storage medium. Generally, the network disk controller does not execute any file system. Rather, the file system for communication between the host and controller is executed by the host. The performance of the network disk controller generally matches that of a local (i. e. , non-network) disk controller in terms of data access and writing.