US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 16 for "Host anomaly snaps" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,151, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Host anomaly snaps" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.), Vinay Rao (Bangalore, India), Sanjib Mallick (Bangalore, India) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Host-resident software such as a Multi-Path Input-Output (MPIO) driver generates notifications of scheduled host shutdowns and unscheduled host shutdowns. A storage node generates emergency snapshots of storage objects masked to the host server in response to receipt of an unscheduled shutdown notification. The storage node also generates emergency snapshots of storag...