US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 17 for "Online update compatibility verification prior to update implementation" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,293, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Online update compatibility verification prior to update implementation" was invented by John Creed (Innishannon, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system for update compatibility verification is provided, that enables the compatibility of a proposed update to be verified against a current storage system configuration prior to be implemented on the storage system. Updates, in this context, include hardware updates, firmware updates, software updates, and combinations of updates. In connection with initiating implementation of an update on a s...