US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Re-ordering files by keyword for migration" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,802, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Re-ordering files by keyword for migration" was invented by Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo), Hiroshi Itagaki (Yokohama, Japan), Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Abe (Ebina, Japan), Shinsuke Mitsuma (Machida, Japan) and Noriko Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes identifying a set of target files to be migrated from a primary storage to a secondary storage, extracting text data from the set of target files, identifying a set of keywords corresponding to the extracted text data from the set...