Patents

US 12748530 B2: Dynamic quality of service implementation based upon resource saturation

Granted
2026-09-29
Filed
2024-11-04 application 18935813
Type
Utility · 20 claims
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Abstract

Techniques are provided for dynamically implementing quality of service policies for a distributed storage system based upon resources saturation. A quality of service policy is defined for throttling I/O operations received by a node of the distributed storage system based upon whether resources of the node have become saturated. The quality of service policy is dynamically implemented based upon ever changing resource utilization and saturation. Dynamically implementing the quality of service policy improves the ability to efficiently utilize resources of the node compared to conventional static polices that cannot adequately react to such changing considerations and resource utilization/saturation. With conventional static policies, an administrator manually defines a minimum amount of guaranteed resources and/or a maximum resource usage cap that could be set to values that result in inefficient operation and resource starvation. Dynamically implementing the quality of service policy results in more efficient operation and mitigates resource starvation.

Source: PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 (ipgb20260929.xml).

Assignees

AssigneeTypePlaceAlso on furp.orgSource
NetApp, Inc. 2,616 patentsUS company or organizationSan Jose, CANETAPP, INC. Federal lobbying client EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state
NETAPP, INC. SEC filer EXACT medium confidence: identical full name, one of each nationally
PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29

Inventors

InventorPlacePatentsPerson pageSource
Abdul BasitMorrisville, NC23PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29
Daniel McCarthyErie, CO26PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29
Christopher Lee CasonBoulder, COPTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29
Jian HuApex, NC5PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29

CPC categories

SubclassCategoryFirst groupSource
G06FElectric digital data processingG06F3/0613PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29

Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).

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