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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
May. 15, 2002
Matthew J. D'Errico, Southborough, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for distributing input/output (I/O) operations among at least two paths in a multi-path computer system including a host computer, a system resource and a plurality of paths coupling the host computer to the system resource. For a next I/O operation to be assigned for transmission between the host computer and the system resource, a selection is made of one of the at least two paths for transmission of the next I/O operation based upon a state of previously assigned I/O operations queued for transmission over the at least two paths.
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