US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 21 for "Managing storage domains, service tiers, and failed servers" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,082, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing storage domains, service tiers, and failed servers" was invented by Anurag Sharma (Cedar Park, Texas) and Chegu Vinod (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects a failed server in a cluster of servers, which are controlled by a master node to execute applications and store data, in service tiers, which correspond to sets of server performance characteristics, in storage domains, which correspond to server racks, in the cluster of servers. By accessing a cluster database, the system identifies applications installed on the fa...