Patent ID: 7114009
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: A61K,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating between a first Fibre Channel (FC) enabled device and a second FC enabled device, where the communication occurs across a fabric that operates in accordance with a first protocol different from a FC protocol of the first and second FC enabled devices, the method comprising: receiving, from the first FC enabled device, at a first gateway receiver a sequence of bytes including at least one FC control character in accordance with the FC protocol; replacing the at least one FC control character with at least one first protocol data character that represents the at least one FC character; generating at least one of an encapsulation header and an encapsulation footer; the step of generating including setting at least one of: an FC control character indicator in the encapsulation header if a first byte in the sequence of bytes received at the first gateway receiver contains the first protocol data character that represents the at least one FC character, and an FC end of frame indicator in the encapsulation footer if a last byte in the sequence of bytes received at the first gateway receiver contains the first protocol data character that represents the at least one FC character.