US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Overcoming saturated ports in distributed data storage systems" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,154, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Overcoming saturated ports in distributed data storage systems" was invented by Anuj Chandra (Bengaluru, India), Imran Imtiaz (Manchester, Great Britain), Graham Woodward (Manchester, Great Britain) and Miles Mulholland (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: causing a standby node having standby ports to be activated in response to detecting that ports of one or more host nodes are saturated. A list of preferred communication paths is updated to include ...