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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:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2012
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jesse P. Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);

Ellen M. Bauman, Rochester, MN (US);

Timothy J. Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1412 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, apparatus and program product implement a failover of a communication channel in a cluster fabric that transfers a state of the communication channel between windows resident in a hardware fabric interface device. The failover is desirably implemented by updating a plurality of mappings between memory resources in a host memory and hardware resources in the fabric interface device, and typically without modifying the memory resources such that involvement of a client that utilizes the communication channel in the failover is minimized or eliminated.


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