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Patent No.:

US 11200121 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2019

Performance efficient time locks on data in a storage controller

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Matthew G. Borlick, Tucson, AZ (US);

Lokesh M. Gupta, Tucson, AZ (US);

Carol S. Mellgren, Tucson, AZ (US);

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Konrad Raynes Davda & Victor LLP

Rabindranath Dutta

Primary Examiner:

Kamini B Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01); G06F 12/126 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1471 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0757 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01); G06F 2212/312 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a computational device stores a data structure that includes identifications of a plurality of volumes and identifications of one or more time locks associated with each of the plurality of volumes. The data structure is indexed into, to determine whether an input/output (I/O) operation from a host with respect to a volume is to be permitted.

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