Owner Network Appliance, Inc.

Inventors Srinivasan, Mohan; Rajan, Vijayan; Pawlowski, Brian; Pittman, Joseph C.; Lee, Herman

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-B-2003254238

PCT Number PCT/US03/23597

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/015521

Priority 10/215,917 09.08.02 US

Filing date 28 July 2003

Wipo publication date 25 February 2004

Acceptance publication date 20 March 2008

G06F 13/10 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units - Programme control for peripheral devices

G06F 3/06 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer - Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers

G06F 12/00 (2006.01) Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures

G06F 17/30 (2006.01) Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions - Information retrieval

H04L 29/06 (2006.01) Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups - characterised by a protocol