Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer network managing – Network resource allocating
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-13
2007-02-13
Cardone, Jason (Department: 2145)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer network managing
Network resource allocating
C711S171000, C711S117000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09972207
ABSTRACT:
A storage area network (SAN) includes a plurality of digital data processors, each with a file system that effects access to one or more storage devices coupled to the SAN, for example, via an interconnect fabric. A process (e.g., executing on a manager digital data processor) responds to a file system over-extension notification from at least a selected one of the digital data processors, e.g., by assigning a further storage device to the selected digital data processor. The type of response is, more particularly, determined in accord with a hierarchically defined policy inherited, in whole or in part, from one or more hierarchical groups of which the digital data processor is a member.
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Bradshaw Paul Lawrence
Delaire Brian Augustine
Douglas Daniel Graham
Dunham Douglas Paul
Dunton Tina Lynn
Cardone Jason
Choudhury Azizul
International Business Machines - Corporation
Konrad Raynes & Victor LLP
Victor David W.
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