US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Increasing data performance by transferring data between storage tiers using workload characteristics" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,428, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Increasing data performance by transferring data between storage tiers using workload characteristics" was invented by Sandeep R. Patil (Pune, India), Sasikanth Eda (Vijayawada, India), Abhishek Jain (Baraut, India) and Digvijay Ukirde (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving one or more suggestions which correspond to placement of data in storage. The one or more suggestions are used to identify portions of actual data stored in actual storage which correspo...