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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. 03, 2016

Filed:

May. 31, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Brenda B. Gimpl, Rochester, MN (US);

David J. Gimpl, Rochester, MN (US);

Nedzad Taljanovic, Tucson, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2013.01); H04L 41/042 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); H04L 41/5096 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract

System information may be retrieved by an element manager on a device in a data center system where the element manager detects an application programming interface (API) call to the element manager from a centralized manager. The element manager establishes a two-way communication channel between the first element manager and the centralized manager according to a communications protocol. The element manager queries the centralized manager for data center system information through the two-way communication channel. The centralized manager manages a storage area network containing the device of the element manager.


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