US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 14 for "Fencing off cluster services based on shared storage access keys" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,446, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Fencing off cluster services based on shared storage access keys" was invented by George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.), Abhinav Duggal (Fremont, Calif.), Senthil Ponnuswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Mahadev Karadigudda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster service receives a cluster message based on a removal of a first service from membership in a first node in a cluster, and requests a shared storage to generate and then provide a new access key, thereby enabling the shared storage to use the new access key to validate requests to access res...