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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. 20, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2003
Applicants:
Mark Steven Bayus, Tucson, AZ (US);
Roger Gregory Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew Joseph Kalos, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ashwani Kumar, Tucson, AZ (US);
Takashi Suzuki, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Steven Bayus, Tucson, AZ (US);
Roger Gregory Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew Joseph Kalos, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ashwani Kumar, Tucson, AZ (US);
Takashi Suzuki, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are a method, apparatus, and computer program product to reduce the detrimental effects of taking resources offline. A resource is taken offline in a storage network by quiescing activity to the resource providing notification that the resource will become unavailable, and taking the resource offline.