US Patent No: 8,086,711 - Analytics, PDF, Full Text and PAIR Access

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Threaded messaging in a computer storage system

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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, NY41578

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chambliss, David Darden Morgan Hill, US 16 358
Jadav, Divyesh San Jose, US 24 663
Lee, Tzongyu Paul Santa Clara, US 6 122
Menon, Ramachandran Gopalakrishna Sunnyvale, US 6 155
Pandey, Prashant Fremont, US 31 364
Xu, Jian San Jose, US 246 3058

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