US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 7 for "Performing data-storage background activities" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,492, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Performing data-storage background activities" was invented by Maher Kachmar (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel) and Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing data-storage background activities includes maintaining a plurality of queues of background activities for respective types of background activities. The queues have a specified order based on a set of relationships between the types of background activities. The technique further includes allocating respective numbers ...