US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 6 for "Systems and methods for instance-based permissions for data center management tasks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,586, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for instance-based permissions for data center management tasks" was invented by Jeffrey M. Lairsey (Round Rock, Texas), Margaret Jenae Patton (Austin, Texas), Carlin Mendonca (Austin, Texas) and Saurav Shrestha (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods support a console for use in a data center, where the console allows granting of one-time permissions for administrators to perform management tasks in the data canter. A denial is detected of a request by a lower-level administrator to perform a management task,...