US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "Service level enforcement in distributed system using security functions of network devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,553, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Service level enforcement in distributed system using security functions of network devices" was invented by Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and John A. Lockman III (Granite Shoals, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing the operation of a deployment are provided. The deployment may be managed in accordance with a subscription model. The subscription model may use subscriptions to define the extent and limits on use of services provided by the deployment. The subscription services and limits may be enforced by management ...