US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 28 for "System and method for slice distribution of network attached storage assets based on slice metadata" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,779, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for slice distribution of network attached storage assets based on slice metadata" was invented by Upanshu Singhal (Bangalore, India), Ashish Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Nitin Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing network attached storage (NAS) assets obtaining, by a backup manager, a backup request for backing up the NAS assets, in response to the backup request: determining a number of streams available to be performed in parallel by a set of backup agents, obtaining a set of slices associated wit...