User interface for representing logical path information and displaying available adapters in a storage subsystem

Patent 7350000 Issued on March 25, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 25, 2024. 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.

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Inventors

Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation

Application

No. 10787040 filed on 02/25/2004

US Classes:

710/38, Path selection710/8, Peripheral configuration709/217, REMOTE DATA ACCESSING709/228, Session/connection parameter setting370/386, Particular switching network arrangement710/2, Input/Output expansion711/162, Backup709/220, NETWORK COMPUTER CONFIGURING714/2Fault recovery

Examiners

Primary: Tsai, Henry W. H.
Assistant: Sun, Scott

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Foreign Patent References

00/39699 WO 07/01/2000

International Classes

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00

Abstract

A user interface facilitates copying data between storage resources, such as servers. A user selects a source storage resource and a target storage resource. Available adapters are displayed through which a path can be established between the selected source and target storage resources. The user selects at least one of the available adapters to configure the path to copy data from the selected source storage resource to the selected target storage resource. The list of available adapters is dynamically updated so that only currently available adapters are displayed. The displayed adapters may be further limited to those that are compatible with a certain path type selected by the user, such as adapters used for a unidirectional or a bi-directional path.