US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "Framework for upgrading firmware of disk array enclosures (DAES)" (Chinese, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,684, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Framework for upgrading firmware of disk array enclosures (DAES)" was invented by Bing Liu (Tianjin, China), Joel Miller (Vacaville, Calif.) and Deepu M Sreedhar (Calicut, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received to upgrade firmware of a set of disk array enclosures (DAEs) in a storage system. Each DAE is chained to another DAE by first and second chains. The first chain provides an active path from a host server to the DAEs. The second chain provides a secondary path from the host server to the DAEs. A determination is made as to whether t...