ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,867, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Input/output processor power management" was invented by Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.) and Christopher J Colonna (Ossining, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for sustainable data storage is provided. An IOP discovers a path between each defined I/O adapter and its endpoint. Based on a system configuration and the discovered pathing, the IOP builds a table comprising each I/O adapter, endpoint, initial adapter state. The IOP creates an...