Threaded messaging in a computer storage system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8086711
APP PUB NO 20080244590A1
SERIAL NO

11955122

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In one embodiment, a method comprises, using at least one processor, controlling communication between Service Level Agreement (SLA) processes of an SLA services module and at least one I/O performance gateway; and using a thread pair associated with each of the at least one processors, processing inbound signals from the at least one I/O erformance atewa being sent to the SLA services module via an inbound thread, and processing outbound signals to the at least one I/O performance gateway received from the SLA services module via an outbound thread, wherein the inbound thread and the outbound thread operate asynchronously to provide non-blocking messaging.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONARMONK, NY46802

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chambliss, David Darden Morgan Hill, US 16 484
Jadav, Divyesh San Jose, US 36 872
Lee, Tzongyu Paul Santa Clara, US 6 165
Menon, Ramachandran Gopalakrishna Sunnyvale, US 6 200
Pandey, Prashant Fremont, US 38 513
Xu, Jian San Jose, US 348 3846

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