Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Wm. B. Dick
  • Task management for data accesses to multiple logical partitions on physical disk drives in computer systems
    Patent number: 6256704
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method (and apparatus) for optimizing disk access operations which span multiple logical disk partitions and multiple disk drives. The disclosed method makes optimum use of concurrency in the software without causing poor performance due to contention for seeks in a disk drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Hlava, Scott David Mastie, Arthur Ray Roberts