US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Allocating sessions associated with exclusive access to different fibers of a storage target" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,174, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Allocating sessions associated with exclusive access to different fibers of a storage target" was invented by Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, from a plurality of initiators, a plurality of reservation requests for logical unit numbers (LUNs) of a storage target. Exclusive type network paths between the initiators and the LUNs requested in the reservation reque...