Appeal No. 2006-1332 Page 2
Application No. 09/548,687
must determine the appropriate storage controller to handle each request for data and
send the request to the appropriate storage controller. (Spec. at p. 2, ll. 10-18.)
In contrast, the appellant's invention removes the task of distributing workload
from a host. More specifically, each processor in his data storage system is aware of
the other processors and the storage redundancy groups associated therewith. If one
of the processors is not the appropriate processor to handle a request for access to
data, the processor can forward the request to the appropriate processor for handling.
(Id., p. 13, ll. 13-20.)
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claims.
1. A method of distributing data access tasks, the method
comprising:
receiving a request to perform a data access task, wherein the
request is received by a first processor in a multi-processor storage
controller, and wherein the first processor is responsible for data access
tasks associated with a first storage device coupled to the multi-processor
storage controller;
the first processor identifying an appropriate processor in the multi-
processor storage controller to process the request;
the first processor processing the request if the first processor is
the appropriate processor to process the request; and
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