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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:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Serge Bourbonnais, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jing Cheng, Beijing, CN;

You-Chin Fuh, San Jose, CA (US);

David B. Petersen, Great Falls, VA (US);

James Z. Teng, San Jose, CA (US);

Hong Jing Ying, Beijing, CN;

Miao Zheng, Beijing, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/273 (2019.01); G06F 11/1402 (2013.01); G06F 11/2023 (2013.01); G06F 11/2025 (2013.01); G06F 11/2035 (2013.01); G06F 11/2046 (2013.01); G06F 11/2097 (2013.01); G06F 16/275 (2019.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for providing continuous availability comprises a second computing site that is geographically remote from a first computing site. The second computing site comprises a storage unit configured to store units of work data and data synchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a group of workloads configured to process the units of work data asynchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a software replication module configured not to replicate any data while the first computing site is available.


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