US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 15 for "Systems and methods of updating sparse metadata in metadata delta log (MDL)-based storage clusters" (Chinese, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,338, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods of updating sparse metadata in metadata delta log (MDL)-based storage clusters" was invented by Seman Shen (Shanghai) and Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for updating sparse metadata in a metadata delta log (MDL)-based storage system. The techniques include providing a 3-level MDL, which includes a first level for a first set of buckets initially (and temporarily) designated as "active", a second level for a second set of buckets initially (and temporarily) designated as "de-stagin...