US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Method, device and computer program product for transmitting data block" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,048, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device and computer program product for transmitting data block" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing), Victor Lei Gao (Beijing) and Hao Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transmitting a data block involve receiving, from a client, a request for reading the data block. Such techniques further involve determining, at a data block layer, whether the data block needs to be compressed at a protocol layer based on a flag indicating whether the data block has been compressed and a storage size of the data block. Such techniques...