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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2014
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
John P. Curtin, Richardson, TX (US);
Ryan L. Pipkin, Prosper, TX (US);
Adrian C. Soncodi, Plano, TX (US);
Netscout Systems Texas, LLC, Westford, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing data in a Quality-of-Storage (QoSt) network comprising a plurality of nodes includes receiving current QoSt network topology information. A plurality of data streams is received at a data storage interface of the QoSt network. Differentiated treatment is performed upon received data streams in the data storage interface. Such differentiated treatment is contingent upon at least different types of data in the received data streams based on a plurality of QoSt attributes. A plurality of data management operations is performed on the data obtained by the plurality of data streams based on the data storage interface and based on received current QoSt network topology information.