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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2006
Applicants:

Rupin T. Mohan, Northborough, MA (US);

Travis Pascoe, Boise, ID (US);

George Shin, Boise, ID (US);

Aithal Basrur Girish, Karnataka, IN;

Kasthurirengan Karthigeyan, Karnataka, IN;

Unnikrishnan Ponnan Katangot, Karnataka, IN;

Julio Valladares, Harvard, MA (US);

Shrinivas B. Kulkarni, Karnataka, IN;

Y. Ravindra Paramashivappa, Karnataka, IN;

Inventors:

Rupin T. Mohan, Northborough, MA (US);

Travis Pascoe, Boise, ID (US);

George Shin, Boise, ID (US);

Aithal Basrur Girish, Karnataka, IN;

Kasthurirengan Karthigeyan, Karnataka, IN;

Unnikrishnan Ponnan Katangot, Karnataka, IN;

Julio Valladares, Harvard, MA (US);

Shrinivas B. Kulkarni, Karnataka, IN;

Y. Ravindra Paramashivappa, Karnataka, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a system and a method for increasing input/output ('I/O') throughput in a data storage system. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising determining an owning controller associated with each of a plurality of storage units of a storage system, receiving an I/O transaction for one of the plurality of storage units, determining if the I/O transaction is a read transaction, and selecting a path to the owning controller associated with the storage unit if the I/O transaction is a read transaction.


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