Cisco Assigned Patent

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,254,991) developed by Bharadwaj, Harsha, Bangalore, India, for a “storage area network based extended I/O metrics computation for deep insight into application performance.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method is described and in one embodiment includes monitoring by an integrated circuit device READ/WRITE commands in connection with a flow of an application executing in a Fiber Channel Storage Area Network, (FC-SAN), determining from the monitored READ/WRITE commands at least one metric for characterizing I/O performance of the application with respect to a storage device, wherein the at least one metric includes at least one of an inter I/O gap, (IIG), a Logical Unit Number, (LUN) I/O access pattern, (IAP), relative block size, I/O operations per second, (IOPS) and throughput, and IOPS per virtual server, storing the calculated at least one metric in a flow record associated with the flow, and using the calculated at least one metric to identify a storage device for use by the flow, wherein the calculated at least one metric is indicative of a performance of the application in the FC-SAN.”

The patent application was filed on March 6, 2017 (15/451,139).