Assignee
EMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP
US·108 granted patents·10 pending applications·2,204 citations·filing 1998–2013
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118 records- 0198US6912610B2Hardware assisted firmware task scheduling and managementEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 28, 2005·266 cites·76 claims
- 0295US7522619B2Methods and apparatus for fibre channel interconnection of private loop devicesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 21, 2009·24 cites·14 claims
- 0394US7801117B2Fibre channel switching fabric routerEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 21, 2010·22 cites·6 claims
- 0494US7801118B2Fibre channel switching fabric port controlEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 21, 2010·22 cites·14 claims
- 0594US7058735B2Method and apparatus for local and distributed data memory access (“DMA”) controlEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 6, 2006·104 cites·18 claims
- 0693US7743197B2System and method for virtualizing PCIe devicesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 22, 2010·90 cites·75 claims
- 0793US7397788B2Methods and apparatus for device zoning in fibre channel arbitrated loop systemsEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 8, 2008·107 cites·7 claims
- 0893US7012914B2Methods and apparatus for fibre channel interconnection of private loop devicesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 14, 2006·51 cites·39 claims
- 0992US7765336B2Autonomous mapping of protected data streams to fibre channel framesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 27, 2010·45 cites·20 claims
- 1090US7983257B2Hardware switch for hypervisors and blade serversEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 19, 2011·43 cites·33 claims
- 1190US7801120B2Method and system for efficient queue managementEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 21, 2010·26 cites·22 claims
- 1290US7382790B2Methods and apparatus for switching fibre channel arbitrated loop systemsEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 3, 2008·83 cites·6 claims
- 1390US7307948B2System with multiple path fail over, fail back and load balancingEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 11, 2007·94 cites·70 claims
- 1489US8046533B2System and method for sector remappingEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 25, 2011·25 cites·45 claims
- 1588US7586850B2Prevention of head of line blocking in a multi-rate switched Fibre Channel loop attached systemEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 8, 2009·21 cites·16 claims
- 1688US6785189B2Method and apparatus for improving noise immunity in a DDR SDRAM systemEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 31, 2004·69 cites·6 claims
- 1787US7149823B2System and method for direct memory access from host without processor intervention wherein automatic access to memory during host start up does not occurEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 12, 2006·60 cites·17 claims
- 1887US6874054B2Direct memory access controller system with message-based programmingEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 29, 2005·70 cites·36 claims
- 1986US7673074B1Avoiding port collisions in hardware-accelerated network protocolEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 2, 2010·62 cites·18 claims
- 2086US7525957B2Input/output router for storage networksEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 28, 2009·40 cites·20 claims
- 2186US7457902B2Lock and release mechanism for out-of-order frame prevention and support of native command queueing in FC-SATAEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 25, 2008·25 cites·34 claims
- 2285US7729284B2Discovery and configuration of devices across an Ethernet interfaceEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 1, 2010·20 cites·26 claims
- 2384US7969989B2High performance ethernet networking utilizing existing fibre channel arbitrated loop HBA technologyEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 28, 2011·17 cites·39 claims
- 2484US7363396B2Supercharge message exchangerEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 22, 2008·12 cites·16 claims
- 2584US7283471B2System and method for regulating message flow in a digital data networkEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 16, 2007·40 cites·16 claims
- 2683US7921431B2N-port virtualization driver-based application programming interface and split driver implementationEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 5, 2011·16 cites·39 claims
- 2783US7743178B2Method and apparatus for SATA tunneling over fibre channelEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 22, 2010·22 cites·17 claims
- 2882US8051334B2Enabling SAS expander loops for increased fairness and performanceEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 1, 2011·15 cites·20 claims
- 2982US7917682B2Multi-protocol controller that supports PCIe, SAS and enhanced EthernetEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 29, 2011·40 cites·24 claims
- 3082US7664018B2Methods and apparatus for switching fibre channel arbitrated loop devicesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 16, 2010·40 cites·14 claims
- 3181US8051436B2SAS expander-side optimization for the re-discovery processEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 1, 2011·12 cites·28 claims
- 3281US7839865B2Dynamically controlling fair access to a system packet interface attached switch enclosureEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 23, 2010·10 cites·18 claims
- 3380US8750715B2Out of band data transfer over optical connectionsEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 10, 2014·4 cites·13 claims
- 3480US7804840B2Combined FCoE network deviceEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 28, 2010·12 cites·20 claims
- 3580US7012918B2Direct data placementEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 14, 2006·30 cites·21 claims
- 3677US7882281B2SAS reference Phys for virtualization and traffic isolationEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 1, 2011·9 cites·31 claims
- 3776US7370326B2Prerequisite-based schedulerEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2004·Granted May 6, 2008·30 cites·40 claims
- 3876US7127534B2Read/write command buffer pool resource management using read-path prediction of future resourcesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 24, 2006·28 cites·26 claims
- 3976US7107382B2Virtual peripheral component interconnect multiple-function deviceEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 12, 2006·23 cites·22 claims
- 4075US8726086B2Generation of simulated errors for high-level system validationEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2013·Granted May 13, 2014·3 cites·25 claims
- 4175US7630300B2Methods and apparatus for trunking in fibre channel arbitrated loop systemsEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 8, 2009·23 cites·14 claims
- 4275US7565471B2Message signaled interrupt extended (MSI-X) auto clear and failsafe lockEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 21, 2009·10 cites·15 claims
- 4374US7062615B2Multi-channel memory access arbitration method and systemEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 13, 2006·23 cites·32 claims
- 4474US6931460B2Dynamically self-adjusting polling mechanismEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 16, 2005·20 cites·39 claims
- 4572US7853735B2Efficient processing of groups of host access requests that may include zero length requestsEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 14, 2010·8 cites·25 claims
- 4671US7882509B2Expander-based solution to the dynamic STP address problemEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 1, 2011·7 cites·21 claims
- 4771US7093037B2Generalized queue and specialized register configuration for coordinating communications between tightly coupled processorsEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 15, 2006·17 cites·24 claims
- 4870US7876713B2Label switched routing in SAS expandersEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 25, 2011·4 cites·38 claims
- 4970US7853741B2Tunneling SATA targets through fibre channelEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 14, 2010·7 cites·12 claims
- 5069US7752343B2Method and apparatus for auto-protocol discrimination between fibre channel, SAS and SATA devicesEMULEX DESIGN & MFG CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 6, 2010·6 cites·12 claims
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