Information processing apparatus and communication path selection method
March 19, 2022. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesMethod and device for selecting information usable by a local unit connected to a digital transmission system Method and apparatus for exchanging different classes of data during different time intervals Method and apparatus for balancing workloads among paths in a multi-path computer system based on the state of previous I/O operations Sequence estimation method and sequence estimator Communication network across which packets of data are transmitted according to a priority scheme Patent #: 6654346 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 10100113 filed on 03/19/2002US Classes:710/38Path selectionExaminersPrimary: Gaffin, JeffreyAssistant: Martin, David Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 300AbstractAn information processing apparatus having a common storage accessible by a host includes: an NIC group connected with a plurality of communication paths connected to the host; an I/O processing unit for executing I/O processing of the common storage in response to an I/O request of the host; a storing unit for holding log information for each data transfer performed from/to the host; and a communication path selection unit for selecting, as a data transfer path, a communication path having actually indicated good I/O processing performance among communication paths used in the past data transfer approximate in a communication condition by referring to the log information held by the storing unit.Other References
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