ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,265, issued on May 27, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for content-based indexing of data streams in streaming storage systems" was invented by Yi Liu (Shanghai), Raul Gracia-Tinedo (Barcelona, Spain), Flavio Paiva Junqueira (Barcelona, Spain) and Thomas Kaitchuck (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a data stream (DS) includes: receiving a first request from an administrator; obtaining the DS from a streaming storage system (SSS); performing a first analysis of the DS to extract relevant data; making a first determination that the relevant data is worth indexin...