US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 20 for "Automated port selection for data migration" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,473, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automated port selection for data migration" was invented by Xuedong Jiang (Andover, Mass.) and Paul Bradley (Macroom, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to optimizing port selection in ongoing data migration between storage arrays. Embodiments probe eligible ports between source and target arrays to discover connectivity and build a graph representing port connectivity by modeling directors as super nodes containing port nodes. Using a constrained optimization model, the embodiments find minimum cos...