Patent ID: 11868827
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method, comprising:
generating, by a processing device of a storage product, storage access messages from incoming packets received by a network interface of the storage product from a computer network;
identifying, by the processing device and among the storage access messages, first messages and second messages;
determining, by the storage product, whether to operate in a standalone mode or in a slave mode, wherein the storage product is operable in the standalone mode when no local host system is connected via a computer bus to a bus connector of the storage product to control the storage product and operable in the slave mode when a local host system is connected to the bus connector to process a portion of the storage access messages;
providing, by the processing device when in the slave mode, the first messages to the local host system through the bus connector to generate third messages for a storage device of the storage product;
processing, by the processing device when in the standalone mode, the first messages to generate the third messages;
providing the second messages and the third messages to the storage device; and
executing, by the storage device, commands in the second messages and the third messages to implement network storage services to access a storage capacity of the storage device over the network interface.