US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Identifying and visualizing namespace range gaps" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,803, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying and visualizing namespace range gaps" was invented by Patrick Aaron Tamborski (Chicago), Shikha Shree (Chicago), Asimuddin Kazi (Naperville, Ill.) and Stephen Garward (Grayslake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, at a management device from a plurality of storage devices, namespace information for each of the plurality of storage devices, the namespace information being shared among the plurality of storage devices. The method further includ...