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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Alexander H. Ainscow, Winchester, GB;

Carlos F. Fuente, Southampton, GB;

Chelsea L. Jones, Ellesmere Port, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4063 (2013.01); G06F 13/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes monitoring port login requests initiated by elements of a storage system, the storage system comprising interconnection cabling, constructing a connection graph corresponding to the port login requests, wherein each edge of the connection graph corresponds to a specific port login request and each vertex of the connection graph corresponds to a port within the storage system, and using the connection graph to evaluate the interconnection cabling of the storage system. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.


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