US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Key server and storage deadlock control" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,780, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Key server and storage deadlock control" was invented by Hong Xin Hou (Shanghai), Wu Song Fang (Beijing), Fang Wang (Beijing), Yi Nong Xin (Hefei, China) and Ze Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for key server and storage deadlock control. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes determining a location identifier of a key server. The method further includes determining a first storage identifier based on the location identifier, where the first storage identifier identifies a storage volume that...