US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 29 for "Automated sharing of remote devices by multiple users using a file system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,299, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automated sharing of remote devices by multiple users using a file system" was invented by Seth Rothschild (Littleton, Mass.), Benjamin Edward Santaus (Somerville, Mass.) and Dale R. Bremner (Wrentham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for automated sharing of remote devices by multiple users using a file system. One method comprises maintaining public keys for source devices associated with users; configuring a primary target device to provide a file system that comprises: (i) a user-specific directory for each of the users, and...