US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Feb. 25 for "Client data layout retention across server disruption" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,727, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Client data layout retention across server disruption" was invented by Soumyadeep Sen (Summit, N.J.), JeanPierre Bono (Westboro, Mass.), Sitaram Pawar (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Ahsan Rashid (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Client data layout retention across server disruption can be performed and managed. In response to a data layout request from a client device (CD), a server can communicate, to CD, metadata, comprising a mapping of a group of blocks, in a data store of the server, to which CD is able to write data to the file, a file offset...