US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "System and method for synchronizing software on clustered storage appliances" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,228, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for synchronizing software on clustered storage appliances" was invented by Joseph A. Perry (Sutton, Mass.), Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Dazhi Dong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing system software between a new storage appliance and a storage cluster having one or more pre-existing appliances. The synchronization process includes: determining a software version used by the pre-existing storage appliances in the storage cluster, determining...