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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:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2005
Applicants:
Shira Ben Dor, Givat Shmuel, IL;
Amir Kredi, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IL;
Aviad Zlotnick, Galil Tachton, IL;
Henry Butterworth, Eastleigh, GB;
Inventors:
Shira Ben Dor, Givat Shmuel, IL;
Amir Kredi, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IL;
Aviad Zlotnick, Galil Tachton, IL;
Henry Butterworth, Eastleigh, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems and apparatus for maintaining colors and color boundaries across multiple storage controllers by instructing a polling storage controller to poll a color control node for current color information, changing the current color to a new color, and instructing the polling storage controller to cease polling the color control node for the current color information.