Patent ID: 8046481
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for extending a conventional Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) protocol for a first hardware device, the method comprising: (a) providing the conventional SATA/SAS protocol having a conventional SATA/SAS protocol stack consisting of: (b) adding, to the conventional SATA/SAS protocol stack of the conventional SATA/SAS protocol, a memory-map layer above the one or more lower-level stack layers and below the one or more higher-level stack layers to form a modified SATA/SAS protocol stack of a modified SATA/SAS protocol; and (c) configuring the first hardware device with the modified SATA/SAS protocol, such that, when the other hardware device is configured with the modified SATA/SAS protocol: