ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,778, issued on May 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for extending SDXI to include IP addresses" was invented by Shyamkumar T Iyer (Cedar Park, Texas), Glen Owen Sescila III (Austin, Texas) and Srikrishna Ramaswamy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a data movement operation includes: sending an API configuration to a producer of a first IHS to start implementing a request received from a user; enqueuing a descriptor into a descriptor ring; sending a doorbell signal to notify an SDXI function; fetching the descriptor; analyzing the descriptor to infer a sourc...