US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Access control command processing in a distributed data storage system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,097, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Access control command processing in a distributed data storage system" was invented by Eldad Zinger (Raanana, Israel), Amit Engel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Elad Grupi (Pardes Hana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access control data stored in the storage servers of a distributed data storage system is modified according to received access control commands and accessed to process host I/O requests without requiring the use of locks. Processing of certain access control commands includes allocating a new volume descriptor to store the updated access contro...