US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Determining an unplanned swap event risk level for a storage system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,113, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining an unplanned swap event risk level for a storage system" was invented by Tariq Hanif (Lagrangeville, N.Y.) and Tabor R. Powelson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining an unplanned swap event risk level for a storage system includes monitoring for input/output (I/O) errors on each of a plurality of storage devices of a first storage system within a predetermined time interval. A criticality level of the first storage system is determined. A risk level for an unplanned swap event is calculated based on det...