Patent ID: 9015333
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: at an interposed file access protocol layer of a file access client, receiving a file access type operation from an upper file access protocol layer at the file access client, wherein the file access type operation specifies a request pertaining to file access and the interposed file access protocol layer is interposed between a Fibre Channel (FC) layer and the upper file access protocol layer; at the interposed file access protocol layer of the file access client, modifying the file access type operation into one or more modified operations so that the one or more modified operations can be transmitted over an FC network; wherein modifying the file access type operation into one or more modified operations includes encapsulating the file access type operation with an interposed file access protocol header to for, a message, at the FC layer of the file access client, encapsulating the message with an FC header that has a type field that indicates that the message is an interposed file access protocol layer message; and transmitting the one or more modified operations to a file access server over the FC network, wherein transmitting the one or more modified operations includes transmitting the message.