US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 27 for "Data selection for multi-phase file-based data migration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,220, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data selection for multi-phase file-based data migration" was invented by Huijuan Fan (Chengdu, China), Junhua Shao (Chengdu, China) and Shuang Zheng (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to determine, for a given time period corresponding to an expected duration of a multi-phase file-based data migration from a source to a destination storage system, predicted write access count metrics for a plurality of files to be migrated as part of the multi-phase file-based data migration and to select, b...