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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:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Feng Shao, Shanghai, CN;

Yicheng Feng, Shanghai, CN;

Gang Lyu, Shanghai, CN;

Si Cong Zhou, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for tracking heat values. The method includes monitoring a first number of access operations to first data in each of a plurality of first source storage units during a cycle. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of first source storage units, calculating a first heat value based on the first number of access operations. Additionally, the method includes, in response to source data being moved from one of the first source storage units to a first target storage unit during the cycle, decreasing a calculated heat value of the one first source storage unit by a first value and increasing a calculated heat value of the first target storage unit by the first value.


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