The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Chi Ming Wong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas K. Wong, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anand Iyengar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajeev Chawla, Union City, CA (US);
Yu Cheong Chan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zuwei Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew Seitz, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard A. Simpkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geetha Srikantan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gaurav Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chi Ming Wong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas K. Wong, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anand Iyengar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajeev Chawla, Union City, CA (US);
Yu Cheong Chan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zuwei Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew Seitz, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard A. Simpkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geetha Srikantan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gaurav Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neopath Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides selective migration in a storage network in accordance with a policy. The policy can include rules that establish which objects are migrated from a source file server to a destination file server based on file attributes (e.g., file type, file size, last access time, frequency of access). For example, large multimedia files that consume I/O bandwidth on expensive or critical file servers, without adding much value to enterprise productivity, can be migrated to a commodity or less critical file server.