US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 1 for "Erasing data sets without access delay to other data sets" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,733, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Erasing data sets without access delay to other data sets" was invented by Carrie Beth Wood (Santa Fe, N.M.), David C. Reed (Tucson, Ariz.), Susan van Berkel (Ottawa) and Michael Steven Gagner (Pima, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, according to one embodiment, includes causing an erase operation to be performed for a first data set. The erase operation includes blocking accesses to the first data set and to a locational data structure for a first volume of a first direct-access storage device (DASD) that includes the first da...