| CPC G06F 12/0246 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |

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1. A system, comprising:
a host device; and
a hardware offload engine; and
a non-volatile storage to store on-disk data,
wherein:
the hardware offload engine is represented to the host device as being a storage having a virtual storage capacity, and
the host device transmits an offload command to the hardware offload engine as a data write command, wherein the offload command is transmitted via a virtual I/O channel created by the hardware offload engine.
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