US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Network interface with intelligence to build null blocks for un-mappable logical block addresses" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,251, issued on Sept. 30.

"Network interface with intelligence to build null blocks for un-mappable logical block addresses" was invented by Xiaodong Liu (Shanghai), Ziye Yang (Shanghai), James R. Harris (Chandler, Ariz.), Changpeng Liu (Shanghai) and Gang Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a network interface having a system interface, a media access interface and circuitry to construct a block of null values for a logical block address (LBA) in response to a remote storage system having informed the network interface that the LBA was un-mappable."

The patent was filed on ...