ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,377, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Load-balancing data protection traffic" was invented by Ajey Godbole (Pune, India), Poornima Gupte (Pune, India), Vikas Chaudhary (Pune, India), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.) and Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of categories are associated to each service of a set of services of a deduplication filesystem hosted across a cluster of nodes. The categories describe loadings on the services. A preliminary identification of a service to which a client request should be redirected is made. Checks are made of the load...