US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 20 for "Storage space accounting techniques allowing storage object identifier reuse and reassignment" (Israeli, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,105, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Storage space accounting techniques allowing storage object identifier reuse and reassignment" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Liang Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: maintaining a storage object identifier hash table (SOIDHT) that tracks storage object identifiers (IDs) that have been reassigned among storage objects and that have potential outstanding activity associated with storage objects as prior to performing corresponding reassig...