ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,050, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Computer system and storage control method" was invented by Takafumi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Katsuto Sato (Tokyo) and Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer system, storage controllers disposed in different data centers form a pair via a communication path between the data centers. When a communication failure occurs in the communication path between the paired storage controllers, a tie breaker takes over the data input/output from one of the storage controllers forming the pair to the other storage controller based on the stat...