US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 4 for "Monitoring data usage to optimize storage placement and access using content-based datasets" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,670, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Monitoring data usage to optimize storage placement and access using content-based datasets" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Steven Sadhwani (Round Rock, Texas), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Erez Sharvit (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of monitoring data assets in a system to apply rules to optimize storage and access of the data assets based on data content rather than data location, by defining rules based on the monitoring attributes, wherein a rule dictates a...