Focus Global Solutions: US-6920494-B2 (Storage Area Network)
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Storage Area Network
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Unified Patents is seeking prior art on at least claim 23 of US-6920494-B2. The patent is owned by Focus Global Solutions, a Jeffery Gross Entity. The patent generally relates to a storage area network (SAN) has one or more host digital data processors are coupled to one or more storage devices (e.g., LUNs) by an interconnect, e.g., a fiber channel-based fabric. Switches or switch-like interfaces on the interconnect fabric define zones or regions in which certain hosts can access certain storage devices, but not other storage devices. Scanners, e.g., operating within agents associated with the hosts, collect information regarding the regions and, more particularly, the hosts, storage devices and interconnect elements that make them up. A manager operating, for example, on a further digital data processor disambiguates information from the regions and discerns the topology of the portion of the SAN spanned by the regions. Thus, it identifies as a virtual SAN elements from regions that have at least one common storage device with at least one other region. The patent has been asserted against Netapp, Dell, Vmware, Broadcom, and Oracle. The link for litigation can be found here: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/litigation/caselist?patents=6920494&sort=-filed_date APEX STANDARDS has shared prior US patent art, non-US patent art, and Non-Patent Literature art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent. Interested professionals may take them and craft work product from there. The link can be found here: https://www.apexstandards.com/pcc/US6920494B2_construction_vis_a_vis_charting_v_prior_art/ Techson IP has provided its Full validity-focused Limestone|Report https://www.limestonereport.com/ which includes: a list of highly relevant prior art patent leads - individually ranked to the claims and tiered by research efficiency; summary predictive analytics about the search; a full CPC technology profile. Interested professionals may take them and craft work products from there. The Full Report link is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/report.limestoneip.com/rPlp758DVgjlXjQ_SBJpwT.full.html InQuartik is a patent intelligence company that doesn't simply deliver patent data — it makes the data understandable, too. InQuartik has developed an automated prior art search solution — Quality Insights by Patentcloud. With its advanced Family Prior Art and Semantic Prior Art features, users can expose a patent's weakness and critical validity issues faster and more effectively. A 7-day free trial is available, which includes access to a staggering 100 patent validity reports. The link can be found here: https://app.patentcloud.com/unified-patents-semantic-prior-art.html?appNumber=09/972391&affiliateSource=UnifiedPatents IPscreener shows an AI generated list of relevant prior art also helping Patroll searchers to faster read and understand of documents found by highlighting relevant passages. Access is free for the exploring the contest case, to view, comment and export identified texts. The link can be found here: https://my.ipscreener.com/token/UIUX9M6M5IEPnOtczBUplz View the Similar Documents (patents + scholarly publications) generated by Google Patents: Patents: https://patents.google.com/?q=~patent%2fUS6920494B2&before=filing:20011005 NPL: https://patents.google.com/?q=~patent%2fUS6920494B2&before=filing:20011005&patents=false&scholar ** PLEASE READ THE RULES FOR THIS CONTEST BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PARTICIPATE. ** ** TO QUALIFY FOR CONSIDERATION, A CLAIM CHART IS REQUIRED. ** ** PLEASE USE THE PROVIDED CLAIM CHART AS A TEMPLATE ** ** PRIOR ART THAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CITED DURING PROSECUTION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. **
Start Date: Thu Sep 22 2022 22:56:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
End Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 23:56:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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