US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "Selective automatic override of a configuration management exclusion window" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,420, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Selective automatic override of a configuration management exclusion window" was invented by Paul McSweeney (Silversprings, Ireland), Aaron Twohig (Rathpeacon, Ireland) and Aidan Hally (Fermoy, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system management system contains an exclusion window override system that enables a user to automatically override an exclusion window when a severe security issue requires immediate action on the storage system. The exclusion window override system does not remove an exclusion window, but rather enables execution o...