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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Barbara J. Camacho, San Jose, CA (US);
Clement Lambert Dickey, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman David Druker, San Ramon, CA (US);
Douglas Paul Dunham, San Jose, CA (US);
Tina Lynn Dunton, San Jose, CA (US);
Nancy Lott Hobbs, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Earle Lindley, San Jose, CA (US);
Barbara J. Camacho, San Jose, CA (US);
Clement Lambert Dickey, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman David Druker, San Ramon, CA (US);
Douglas Paul Dunham, San Jose, CA (US);
Tina Lynn Dunton, San Jose, CA (US);
Nancy Lott Hobbs, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Earle Lindley, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage area network has one or more digital data processors, e.g., hosts, in communication with one or more storage devices. At least a selected one of the hosts has an operating system in which a storage device must be claimed before the storage device can be accessed by applications programs executing on that host. The improvement is characterized by a selectively actuable filter, e.g., loaded with the selected host operating system, that when downloaded and actuated to a host intervenes to block claiming of one or more selected storage devices.