US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Triggering a storage system swap event based on device error impact" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,253, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Triggering a storage system swap event based on device error impact" was invented by Tariq Hanif (Lagrangeville, N.Y.) and Tabor R. Powelson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Triggering a storage system swap event based on device error impact includes monitoring for input/output (I/O) errors on each of a plurality of storage devices of a first storage system. A criticality attribute of each of the plurality of storage devices is determined. A device score is calculated for each of the plurality of storage devices based on a...