NEC Assigned Patent
Disk control and recording medium
By Francis Pelletier | March 17, 2020 at 2:11 pmNEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,579,268) developed by Orihara, Naoshi, Tokyo, Japan, for “disk control device, disk control method, and recording medium.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A disk control device includes a hypervisor, a cache access measurement unit, and a distribution determination unit. The cache access measurement unit measures a characteristic value of a logical disk by analyzing an access pattern to the logical disk by a cache memory. The distribution determination unit selects one of a plurality of virtual computers including the cache memory associated with the measured characteristic value. The hypervisor activates the virtual computer selected by the distribution determination unit and switches a forwarding destination of an input-output request to the logical disk to the virtual computer selected by the distribution determination unit.”
The patent application was filed on January 19, 2018 (15/875,048).
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