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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:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2009
Applicants:
Michael E. Browne, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Nancy J. Finn, Stormville, NY (US);
Christina Lara, Tucson, AZ (US);
Maria R. Ward, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Michael E. Browne, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Nancy J. Finn, Stormville, NY (US);
Christina Lara, Tucson, AZ (US);
Maria R. Ward, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method which prioritizes the subgroups in a consistency group by usage and/or business process. Thereafter, in case of abnormal operation of the process for copying the consistency group from primary storage to secondary storage, only a portion of the subgroups of the consistency group are copied from primary storage to secondary storage.