US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Nov. 25 for "Metadata distribution across container-scalable file structures" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,565, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Metadata distribution across container-scalable file structures" was invented by Adrian Dobrean (Oakville, Canada) and Sanath KS (Palakkad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backup device. The backup device includes: backup device storage configured to persistently maintain data and metadata related to distributed storage cluster backups according to a container-scalable file structure. The container-scalable file structure includes: a first level (L1) including at least one backup directory and a L1 metadata database; a second level (L2) branching fr...