US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Upgrade orchestration of a storage system based on namespace range gaps" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,112, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Upgrade orchestration of a storage system based on namespace range gaps" was invented by Asimuddin Kazi (Naperville, Ill.), Patrick Aaron Tamborski (Chicago), Shikha Shree (Chicago) 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 identifying an upgrade to be made to a storage system. The method further includes receiving, at a management device from a plurality of storage devices of the storage system, namespace information for each of the pl...