ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,090, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Storage network resource management" was invented by Tomohiro Kawaguchi (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein can involve, responsive to a request of a volume requiring remote copy, checking an IO throughput setting of the volume; using network bandwidth based on the IO throughput setting of the volume; and for the use of the network bandwidth not exceeding total remote copy network resources allocated for existing volumes configured with remote copy and the volume requiring remote copy, establishing a remote copy relat...