US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 4 for "Flexible and instantaneous lock extension for auto retention locked (ARL) files using ARL labels" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,417, issued on March 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Flexible and instantaneous lock extension for auto retention locked (ARL) files using ARL labels" was invented by Jagannathdas Rath (Bangalore, India) and Sraisailendra Yallapragada (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible retention lock system defines attributes for an automatic retention lock (ARL) period to lock a file, and a cooling (COP) period specifying a time period after which the file will be locked if no modifications are made. These attributes are assigned an ARL label ID and are attached to the file using the ARL label ID s...