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US 11,907,150 B2Granted
Multi-protocol IO infrastructure for a flexible storage platform
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsFred Worley, Harry Rogers, Sreenivas Krishnan, Zhan Ping, Michael Scriber
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Abstract
A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a storage board;
- a first storage circuit in communication with the storage board, the first storage circuit configured to support a first storage interface for communicating with a first storage device;
- and
- a second storage circuit in communication with the storage board, the second storage circuit configured to support a second storage interface for communicating with a second storage device,
- wherein the first storage interface is a multi-protocol interface that is different from the second storage interface, and
- wherein at least one of the first storage circuit or the second storage circuit is configured to:
- determine, according to a physical connector of the first storage device or the second storage device, a storage protocol used by the first storage device or the second storage device that is different from a storage protocol used by a host interface;
- and
- modify a communication, received according to the storage protocol used by the host interface, based on the different storage protocol used by the first storage device or the second storage device.
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A storage adapter circuit, comprising:
- a first storage circuit in communication with a storage board, the first storage circuit configured to support a first storage interface for communicating with a first storage device;
- and
- a second storage circuit in communication with the storage board, the second storage circuit configured to support a second storage interface for communicating with a second storage device,
- wherein the first storage interface is a multi-protocol interface that is different from the second storage interface, and
- wherein at least one of the first storage circuit or the second storage circuit is configured to:
- determine, according to a physical connector of the first storage device or the second storage device, a storage protocol used by the first storage device or the second storage device that is different from a storage protocol used by a host interface;
- and
- modify a communication, received according to the storage protocol used by the host interface, based on the different protocol used by the first storage device or the second storage device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.