US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Targeted updates of storage management software based on class file usage" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,920, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Targeted updates of storage management software based on class file usage" was invented by Paul McSweeney (Silver Springs, Ireland), Ellen Murphy (Whites Cross, Ireland) and Caoimhe Ward (Swinford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Customized updates are generated for instances of storage management software running on storage management servers in different storage systems. The filenames of class files used by each instance of the storage management software are stored in respective databases associated with those storage management software instances...