Other patents granted to Auspex include:
So, what does Network Appliance intend to do with this stash of NAS patents? Develop new products? Collect patent-licensing fees from its competitors? Keep them ?
It's not clear yet. NetApp spokesman Eric Brown was unable to provide any additional information about the company's plans for the Auspex intellectual property.
Larry Boucher, CEO of Alacritech Inc. who previously founded Auspex, is named on several of the patents. He says NetApp "certainly knows the patents better than most people" and speculates that the company may be interested in applying some of the technology to its own NAS systems.
"As far as I can tell, they have stayed away from Auspex's form of multiprocessing, as some of the patents cover that," he says. "This is a technology that they understand, and may be interested in making use of." He also says NetApp may seek royalty payments from other vendors.
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