Patent ID: 9208168
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a storage system, from a host device, a request to copy a data set from a source data storage location to a destination data storage location, wherein the request is a message of a first interface protocol and includes an inter-protocol token formatted according to a format specified by a second interface protocol different from the first interface protocol, wherein the inter-protocol token has encoded within it a representation of the data set in the source location and information indicating that the inter-protocol token is compliant with a standard associated with the second interface protocol; decoding, by storage system, the inter-protocol token using the information indicating that it is compliant with the standard associated with the second interface protocol; validating, by the storage system, the inter-protocol token; and transferring, by the storage system, the data set, in response to validating the inter-protocol token, from the source data storage location to the destination data storage location without transferring the data set to the host device.