US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 30 for "Dataset integrity protection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,255, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dataset integrity protection" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.), Benjamin Randolph (Uxbridge, Mass.) and Michael Scharland (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to autonomous write fencing for backup power. In embodiments, an input/output (IO) workload is received at a storage array. Additionally, one or more IO write requests in the IO workload are cached based on a charge level of a backup power supply of the storage array. Further, the cached IO write requests are processed." ...