US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Feb. 18 for "Extending filesystem domains with a domain membership condition" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,081, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Extending filesystem domains with a domain membership condition" was invented by Barry Naujok (Lilydale, Australia), Jonathan Walton (Seattle), Chris Stacey (Seattle) and Mayank Rajawat (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed an extension to the IFS domains architecture, referred to herein as filter domains. IFS domains allows tagging of files in a tree-like dataset. Thus, a domain can be defined at the root of the dataset such as the topmost directory under which all files reside. These domains are in...