Patent ID: 11868828
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method, comprising:
receiving, in a network interface of a storage product manufactured as a standalone computer component to be assembled into a computing device containing a computer bus connected to a processor, incoming packets from a computer network;
converting, by a processing device of the storage product having a random-access memory and a storage device, the incoming packets into first messages and second messages to access a storage capacity of the storage device via network storage services over the network interface;
connecting, by a bus switch of the storage product, the processing device to the random-access memory to provide a first functioning bus between the processing device and the random-access memory;
buffering, by the processing device, the first messages into the random-access memory;
connecting, by the bus switch, the processing device and the storage device to provide a second functioning bus between the processing device and the storage device;
buffering, by the processing device, the second messages into a local memory of the storage device; and
connecting, by the bus switch, the random-access memory to the computer bus to provide a third functioning bus between the random-access memory and the processor external to the storage product, in response to the processor retrieving the first messages from the random-access memory.