ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,342, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Orchestration of unmap requests received from write cache instances of a distributed storage system" was invented by Doron Tal (Geva Carmel, Israel), Yosef Shatsky (Karnei Shomron, Israel), Ali Aiouaz (Bee Cave, Texas) and Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive unmap requests for freeing up data previously written to one or more storage regions of at least one storage device of a distributed storage system, the unmap requests being received from two or more w...