Patent ID: 9461867
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for routing communication paths among computing devices, the method comprising: identifying, by one or more computer processors, a computing entity and a data storage entity that transfer data; determining, by one or more computer processors, a plurality of communication ports that the data storage entity utilizes to transfer data to the computing entity; identifying, by one or more computer processors, a plurality of computing resources respectively associated with the determined plurality of communication ports that the data storage entity utilizes to transfer the data to the computing entity; and generating, by one or more computer processors, a list of tuples for the data storage entity based, at least in part, on the identified plurality of computing resources and the determined plurality of communication ports; sorting, by one or more computer processors, the generated list of tuples such that the generated list of tuples is cyclically ordered based on a hierarchy of: the server identifier, the communication adapter identifier, and the communication port identifier; and identifying, by one or more computer processors, a rule associated with the computing entity, wherein the rule dictates a number of communication paths that the computing entity utilizes to transfer data between a communication port of the computing entity and the plurality of communication ports of the data storage entity; and assigning, by one or more computer processors, a group of communication port identifiers from the generated list of tuples to the communication port of the computing entity such that the number of the group of assigned communication ports is based, at least in part, on the rule associated with the computing entity.