NTT Assigned Patent

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11954076) developed by Iino, Tomonori, Sakurai, Atsushi, and Tanaka, Yuriko, Musashino, Japan, for “hierarchical storage management system, hierarchical storage control apparatus, hierarchical storage management method and program.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In a hierarchical storage management system including: a hierarchical storage that is provided in an individual data center and has at least one storage medium, and a hierarchical storage control apparatus that manages at least one hierarchical storage, the hierarchical storage control apparatus includes a calculation unit that performs processing for obtaining, for individual data managed by the hierarchical storage control apparatus, a storage medium in a data center that satisfies an operation policy by calculating power consumption needed for storing the data, a cost needed for storing the data, and communication time for transferring the data from a data center to a reference source area and by comparing the calculated power consumption, cost, and communication time with the operation policy set for the data.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-07-31 (17/629462).