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Electronic and electrical devices, namely, micro-circuits, micro-chips, dedicated integrated circuits, custom integrated circuits, and application specific integrated circuits; electronic and electrical controllers, namely input/output controllers, I/O controllers, disk controllers, disk array controllers, storage controllers, storage area network controllers, SAN controllers, data storage controllers, network controllers, network-attached storage controllers, enterprise class storage controllers, redundant array of independent disks controllers, RAID controllers, fiber channel controllers, fibre channel controllers, memory controllers, and cache controllers; network devices, namely, routers, bridges, hubs, and switches all having a network-attached storage device; network equipment, namely, network-attached storage equipment, namely, data storage drives, data storage cards, data storage chips, and data storage arrays, and storage area network equipment, namely, data storage drives, data storage cards, data storage chips, and data storage arrays; network storage devices, namely, routers, bridges, hubs, and switches all having a storage area network device; storage area network devices, namely, storage area network switches, storage routers, multi-protocol storage routers, multi-protocol routers, multi-protocol storage area network switches; network-attached storage devices, namely, network attached storage switches, storage routers, multi-protocol storage routers, multi-protocol routers, multi-protocol storage area network switches; storage systems, namely, data storage drives, data storage cards, data storage chips, and data storage arrays; data storage subsystems, namely, data storage drives, data storage cards, data storage chips, and data storage arrays; computer storage devices, namely, computer disk drives, disk controllers, servers, storage and network controllers, SAN controllers, SCSI controllers, ATA controllers, and cache memory; network attached disk arrays; computer disk drives; computer disk drive arrays; computer disk arrays; computer hardware; circuits, namely electrical and electronic; silicon wafers; integrated circuits; semiconductors; chips, namely silicon and computer; circuit boards; computer firmware, middleware, and software all for the use in controlling storage functions in a storage area network device; computer software for use in storage area network devices and used for managing the storage of data, protection of data, archiving of data, backing up of data, disaster recovery of data, restoration of data, reading and writing of data, transferring of data, mirroring of data, accessing of data, server connectivity, SAN management, network management, interfacing, switching, routing, and protocol conversion; storage software for use in storage and network management; and printed data sheets, application notes, and users manuals supplied therewith as a unit