US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "Inflight-I/O-based storage emulation system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,611, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Inflight-I/O-based storage emulation system" was invented by Sunil Shahu (Ahmedabad, India) and Shyamkumar T. Iyer (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflight-I/O-based storage emulation system includes a storage emulation device coupled to host devices, and to storage devices that provide primary, secondary, and metadata storage systems. The storage emulation device stores I/O commands directed to the primary storage system by the host devices in its I/O queue. If the storage emulation device predicts I/O operations for I/O commands in its...