ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,809, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Distributed data storage system with tunneling of management requests among scale-out clusters" was invented by Gregory W. Lazar (Upton, Mass.), Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Weixing Wang (Durham, N.C.) and Animesh Singh (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data storage system includes clusters of data storage appliances interconnected by an inter-cluster (IC) network having an IC namespace. Storage processing (SP) nodes exchange management traffic using mesh network (MN) addresses of a separate MN namespace. Gateways p...