Adapated disk drives executing instructions for I/O command processing
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Abstract
Communication protocols, systems, and methods that facilitate communication between disaggregated elements, and also to devices adapted to function as such disaggregated elements, particularly across peer-to-peer (masterless) and include one or more unique features such as packet atomicity, blind ACKs, NAT bridging, locking, multicast spanning and mirroring, and authentication.
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23 Claims
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1-18. -18. (canceled)
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19. A disk drive adapted to execute an instruction set to transfer data between a computer and a network addressable internal storage area associated with the disk drive, wherein the instruction set comprises:
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(a) a command to transfer a data block;
(b) a command to allocate the network addressable internal storage area; and
(c) a command to authenticate a packet. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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Specification