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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:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Thomas W. Bish, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nikhil Khandelwal, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory E. McBride, Vail, AZ (US);
David C. Reed, Tucson, AZ (US);
Richard A. Welp, Manchester, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed aspects include management of a set of blocks in a storage system. A set of write requests is initiated to the set of blocks. In response to the set of write requests, a set of expiration metadata for the set of blocks is established. Based on the set of expiration metadata, an expiration event is detected. In response to detecting the expiration event, an expiration operation on the set of blocks is processed.