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`(12) EX PARTE REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE (5472nd)
`United States Patent
`(10) Number:
`US 6,425,035 C1
`
`
` Hoese et al. (45) Certificate Issued: *Aug. 8, 2006
`
`(54) STORAGE ROUTER AND METHOD FOR
`PROVIDING VIRTUAL LOCAL STORAGE
`
`(75)
`
`'
`Inventors: Geoffrey H. Hoese, Austin, TX (US);
`Jeffry T‘ Russel C'bom‘ TX (US)
`
`(73) Assignee: Crossworlds Software, Burlingame,
`CA (US)
`
`4,864,532 A
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`,
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`Reexamination Certificate for:
`Patent N0.:
`6,425,035
`Issued:
`Jul. 23, 2002
`Appl. No.:
`09/965,335
`Filed:
`Sep. 27, 2001
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`Primary Examiner—Dov Popovici
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`(5])
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`Int. Cl.
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`ABSTRACT
`(57)
`A storage router (56) and storage network (50) provide
`virtual local storage on remote SCSI storage devices (60, 62,
`64) to Fiber Channel devices. A plurality of Fiber Channel
`devices, such as workstations (58), are connected to a Fiber
`Channel transport medium (52), and a plurality of SCSI
`storage devices (60. 62, 64) are connected to a SCSI bus
`transport medium (54). The storage router (56) interfaces
`between the Fibre Channel transport medium (52) and the
`SCSI bus transport medium (54). The storage router (56)
`maps between the workstations (58) and the SCSI storage
`devices (60. 62, 64) and implements access, controls for
`storage space on the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64). The
`storage router (56) then allows access from the workstations
`(58) to the SCSI storage devices (60, 62. 64) using native
`low level, block protocol in accordance with the mapping
`and the access controls.
`
`
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`Oracle Ex. 1032, pg. 1
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`Oracle Ex. 1032, pg. 2
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`Oracle Ex. 1032, pg. 2
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`Defendants‘ Trial Exhibits. Crossroads Systems, Inc, v.
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`Network
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`CA.
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`D023), Apr. 12, 1996.
`Brooklyn Hardware Engineering Requirements Documents,
`Revision 1.4 (Lavan Ex 4 (CNS 178188—211» (CD—ROM
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`
`Brooklyn Single—Ended SCSI RAID Bridge Controller
`Hardware OEM Manual. Revision 2.1 (Lavan EX 5 (CNS
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`21. 1996.
`Coronado Hardware Engineering Requirements Document.
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`ESS/FPG Organization (Lavan Ex 8 (CNS 178639—652»
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`Adaptec MCS ESS Presents: Intelligent External l/O Raid
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`ABC—7313 Fibre Channel Daughter Board (for Brooklyn)
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`14 (CNS 177211-214»
`(Lavan Ex
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`AEC-4412B, AEC7412/SB Extemal RAID Controller
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`D039), Feb. 11, 1997.
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`Oracle Ex. 1032, pg. 3
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`Coronado: Fibre Channel
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`(CD—ROM Chaparral Exhibits D053).
`Bill of Material
`(Kalwitz Ex 2
`(CNS 181632—633»
`(CD—ROM Chaparral Exhibits D054), Mar. 17, I997.
`Emails Dated Jan. 13—Mar. 31, 1997 from P. Collins to M0
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`(CNS 182501—511»
`(CD—ROM Chaparral Exhibits D055).
`Hardware Schematics for the Fibre Channel Daughtercard
`Coronado (Kalwitz Ex 4 (CNS 181639—648» (CD—ROM
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`Adaptec Schematics re AAC—34O (Kalwitz Ex 14 CNS
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`Bridge Product Line Review (Manzanares Ex 3 (CNS
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`AEC Bridge Series Products—Adaptee External Controller
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`X3T10 994D—(Draft) Information Technology: SCSI—3
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`X3T10 Project 1047D: Information Technology—SCSI—3
`Controller Commands (SCC), Rev, 6c (PTI 166400—546)
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`X3T10 995D—(Draft) SCSI—3 Primary Commands. Rev. 11
`(Wanamaker Ex 5 (P'TI 166050—229)) (CD—ROM Chaparral
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`VBAR Volume Backup and Restore (CRDS 12200—202)
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`Preliminary Product Literature for
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`Fibre Channel
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`Quisenberry Ex 31 (SPLO 428—30) (CD—ROM Chaparral
`Exhibits D143), Aug. 19, 1996.
`Letter dated Jul. 12, 1996 from J. Boykin to B. Smith re:
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`for Evaluation Units
`from Crossroads
`(Smith Ex 24) CRDS 8556—57)
`(CD—ROM Chaparral
`Exhibits D144), Jul. 12. 1996.
`CrossPoint 4100 Fibre Channel to SCSI Router Preliminary
`Datasheet (Halsey Ex 9 (CRDS 16129—130» (CD—ROM
`Chaparral Exhibits D145), Nov. 1, 1996.
`CrossPoint 4400 Fibre Channel to SCSI Router Preliminary
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`(Bardach Ex. 9, Quisenberry Ex 33 (CRDS
`25606—607» (CD—ROM Chaparral Exhibits D153), Nov. 1,
`1996.
`to B. Smith re:
`Fax Dated Jul. 22, 1996 from L. Petti
`Purchase Order from Data General
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`Email Dated Dec. 20, 1996 from J. Boykin to B. Smith re:
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`
`Infinity Commstor Fibre Channel Demo for Fall Comdex,
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`(CRDS 27415)
`(CD—ROM Chaparral Exhibits D157).
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`Miscellaneous Documents Regarding Comdex (Quisenberry
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`CrossPoint 4100 Fibre Channel to SCSI Router Preliminary
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`Agreement between Hewlett—Package Company and Cross-
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`Exhibits P130).
`CR4x00 Product Specification (CRDS 43929) (CD—ROM
`Chaparral Exhibits P267), Jun. 1, 1998.
`Symbios Logic—Hardware Functional Specification for the
`Symbios Logic Series 3 Fibre Channel Disk Array Control-
`ler Model 3701 (Engelbrecht Ex 3 (LSl—1659—1733)
`(CD—ROM Pathlight Exhibits D074).
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`Computing; Department of Computer Science Duke Uni-
`versity: CS-1996—21 (PTI 173330—347). (CD-ROM Path-
`light Exhibits D098).
`Brian Allison's 1999 Third Quarter Sales Plan (PDX 38
`)CNS 022120-132» (CD—ROM Pathlight Exhibits D201),
`Jun. 5, 2001.
`Brooklyn SCSI—SCSI Intelligent External RAID Bridge
`Definition Phase External Documentation (CD—ROM Path-
`light Exhibits D129).
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`Digital Equipment Corporation, 1990.
`S.P. Joshi, “Ethernet controller chip interfaces with variety
`of 16—bit processors," Electronic Design, Hayden Publish-
`ing Co., Inc., Rochelle Park, NJ, Oct. 14, 1982.pp 193—200.
`“DP5380 Asynchronous SCSI Interface”, National Semi—
`conductor Corporation, Arlington, TX, May 1989, pp. 1—32.
`Johnson, DB, et al., “The Peregrine High Performance
`RPC
`System”,
`Software—Practice & Experience,
`23(2):201—221. Feb. 1993.
`“lnfoServer ISO—Installation and Owner‘s Guide", EK—IN-
`FSV—OM—OOI, Digital Equipment Corporation. Maynard,
`Massachusetts 1991. Chapters 1 and 2.
`Pictures of internal components of the lnfoServer 150, taken
`from http://www.binarydinosaurs.couk/Museum/Digital/in—
`foserver/infoserver.php in Nov. 2004.
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`* cited by examiner
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`Oracle Ex. 1032, pg. 4
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`Oracle Ex. 1032, pg. 4
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`US 6,425,035 C1
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`EX PARTE
`REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE
`ISSUED UNDER 35 U'S'C' 307
`NO AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO
`THE PATENT
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`DETERMINED THAT:
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`90/007,125
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`Applicant
`Geoffre B. Hoese, et al.
` Date Filed
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`Reexamination
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`07/19/2004
`11/23/2004
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`Storage Router and Method for Providing Virtual
`Local Stora - e
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`Chen, Alan
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`Applicant hereby serves the Comments on Statement of Reasons for Patentability
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`and/or Confirmation in the above referenced case to:
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`Larry E. Severln
`Wang. Hartmann & Gibbs, PC
`1301 Dove Street, #1050
`Newport Beach, CA 92660
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`Comments On Statement of Reasons for Patentability,
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`Dear Sir:
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`Applicants appreciate the Examiner’s confirmation of Claims 1-14 of United States
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`Patent No. 6,425,035. Applicants submit the record as a whole makes evident the reasons for
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`allowance and that there are additional reasons for patentability not enumerated by the
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`Examiner. While Applicants agree with the Examiner’s reasons for patentability to the extent
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`such reasons are consistent with the record as a whole (as Applicants understand them to be),
`Applicants do not acquiesce or agree to any characterization of the claims that place
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`Reexamination Control No. 90/007 125 mevyel 11/] Attachment to Paper No. 09022005.
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`Claims 1-14 are allowed.
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`The prior art disclosed by the patent owner and cited by the Examiner fail to teach or suggest, alone or in combination, all the limitations of the '
`independent claims (claims 1, 7 and 11), paIticularty the map/mapping feature which is a one-to—one correspondence, as given in a simple table,
`the map physically resident on a router, whereby the router forms the connection between two separate entities over different transport mediums,
`such that neither entity determines where dataIs to be sent, but rather, the router solely dictates where the data will be sent; also the “"NLLBP
`feature refering to a fundamental low level protocol defined by a specification/standard thatIs well known to one of ordinary skill'In the art, where
`the NLLBPIs used at the router for communications with both the first and second transport medium. The SCSI protocol/standardIs considered
`a NLLBP TCP/IP e9., usedIn Ethernet communications however, is not considered to be a NLLBP.
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