US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for performance-based port selection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,595, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for performance-based port selection" was invented by Jason McCarthy (Cambridge, Mass.), Girish Warrier (Natick, Mass.) and Rongnong Zhou (South Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: generating a plurality of combined utilization vectors, each of the plurality of combined utilization vectors corresponding to a different one of a plurality of port pairs; updating the plurality of combined utilization vectors based on an expected usage of the storage entity to produce a plurality of updated utilization vector...