ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,755, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Autonomous I/O ingestion and data flushing among nodes in storage systems" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel), Geng Han (Beijing) and Yousheng Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nodes in a storage system can autonomously ingest I/O requests and flush data to storage. First and second nodes determine a sequence separator, the sequence separator corresponding to an entry in a page descriptor ring that separates two flushing work sets (FWS). The first node receives an input/output (I/O) request and allocates a sequence identifica...