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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:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Applicants:
Dean D. Throop, Efland, NC (US);
Dennis T. Duprey, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventors:
Dean D. Throop, Efland, NC (US);
Dennis T. Duprey, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, system, and program product comprising, assigning addressable elements of storage devices of a data storage system to groups and subgroups, each subgroup being a member of a respective group of the groups, associating a value with a first group of the groups, wherein the value is derived from attributes of access requests to addressable elements of only a subset of the subgroups that are members of the first group, and based on the value, migrating data of the first group.