Patent ID: 11899981
Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. The communication interface apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the network interface is a communication interface configured to transmit and receive a datagram of a storage protocol by a communication protocol, and the datagram of the storage protocol received by the communication protocol includes the command,
the host interface is a local bus interface for connecting to a local bus,
the communication interface apparatus further comprises a communication protocol processing unit configured to process the communication protocol,
the storage control unit is configured to execute a storage protocol process of processing the storage protocol, and
the authorization information extracting unit is configured to extract the authorization information which is stored in a header portion or a data portion of the communication protocol processed by the communication protocol processing unit, the authorization information which is stored in the header portion or the data portion of the communication protocol being protected such that the authorization information cannot be tampered with by the transmission source of the command.