US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 4 for "Failure recovery in a scaleout system using vector clock" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,826, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Failure recovery in a scaleout system using vector clock" was invented by Keyur B. Desai (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a failure recovery line in a distributed scaleout computing system. Each node or process of a distributed system has or is associated with a vector clock that includes a logical clock for each node in the distributed system. When failure is detected, a recovery operation may be performed using the vector clock. After the recovery operation, the vector clock is updated such that the failure recovery line is available ...