US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 21 for "Physical enumeration of a distributed namespace in a distributed file system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,338, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Physical enumeration of a distributed namespace in a distributed file system" was invented by Ramesh Kannan Karuppusamy (Bengaluru, India), Lomesh Vasant Meshram (Bengaluru, India) and Arun Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing storage of data in a distributed namespace (DNS) system includes obtaining, by a garbage collection (GC) agent of a computing node in the DNS system, a request for processing a set of pages in a file system, each page being associated with one of a plurality of either dataful or dataless snap...