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State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Assigned Patent

Computer-implemented method for dynamically changing network port speed of FC initiator

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL, has been assigned a patent (10,178,038) developed by Carlock, Brent, Bloomington, IL, for “system and computer-implemented method for dynamically changing network port speed of fiber channel initiator.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A system and method for improving the functioning of a data storage array by allowing for dynamically changing a speed of a communications port receiving data from a server via a fiber channel network managed by a network switch. The switch is queried to determine which server is sending data to each port, and to determine the speed and flow rate of the data through each port. The port experiencing the highest speed of data is identified, and if the cache write pending is above a threshold or if the array is otherwise unable to save the data at the speed at which it is being received, then the switch is set to limit the speed through that port, thereby avoiding a backup of data which could cause the port to be taken offline. A record of the change and an alert that the change was made are then generated”.

The patent application was filed on May 18, 2017 (15/599,188).

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