US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 19 for "Unconfigured storage appliance compatibility checking for a storage cluster" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,335, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Unconfigured storage appliance compatibility checking for a storage cluster" was invented by Dazhi Dong (Shanghai), Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Joseph A. Perry (Sutton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cluster management logic in a storage appliance of a storage cluster receives messages that are automatically transmitted periodically by unconfigured storage appliances. The unconfigured storage appliances do not belong to the storage cluster, and the messages contain properties of the unconfigured storage appliances. The messages may ...