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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:
Oct. 18, 2005

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2001
Applicants:

David K. Umberger, Boise, ID (US);

Jonathan E. Condel, Boise, ID (US);

Brian L. Patterson, Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

David K. Umberger, Boise, ID (US);

Jonathan E. Condel, Boise, ID (US);

Brian L. Patterson, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for allocating and forecasting computational effort from a plurality of service components among a plurality of workloads. Preferably, processing power or other computational service is allocated among the workloads or tasks so as to optimize overall system efficiency and avoid processing bottlenecks. The inventive mechanism may be advantageously applied to the migration or movement of data between different levels of a hierarchical RAID storage system, between various storage systems, and/or between a storage system and a host device of a data processing system.


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