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

Claim 15:
16. A computing device, comprising:
a computer bus;
a local host system connected to the computer bus; and
at least one storage product, the storage product comprising:
a bus connector connected to the computer bus;
a network interface operable on a computer network to receive incoming packets;
a processing device coupled to the network interface to generate storage access messages from the incoming packets; and
a local storage device having a storage capacity accessible via the storage access messages;

wherein the storage product is operable in a standalone mode and a slave mode;
wherein when in the slave mode, the storage product is configured to provide a portion of the storage access messages to the local host system, and the local host system is configured to generate and provide messages for the local storage device;
wherein when in the standalone mode, the storage product is configured to process the portion of the storage access messages within the storage product without providing any portion of the storage access messages to the local host system.