US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 29 for "Seamlessly implementing planned outages across network nodes" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,211, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Seamlessly implementing planned outages across network nodes" was invented by Bharti Soni (Pune, India), Komal Shailendra Shah (Pune, India), Tanmay Jayant Mujumdar (Pune, India) and Subhojit Roy (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: sending a notification to a host regarding a first logical unit number (LUN) in response to receiving an indication that a first node will be taken offline. The first LUN that the notification is sent to has a preferred communication path...