ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,439, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Input-output processing in software-defined storage systems" was invented by Doron Tal (Geva Carmel, Israel) and Adnan Sahin (Needham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive, from one of two or more storage nodes of a software-defined storage system comprising a write cache and persistent storage, a request to read a given portion of data. One or more portions of data in the persistent storage are also stored as read-only data in local storage of virtual computing instances implementing the sto...