US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Transparent data management of tiered data streams" (Irish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,522, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Transparent data management of tiered data streams" was invented by Raul Gracia-Tinedo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Alan Cueva Mora (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a stream includes: intercepting a request originated from a streaming storage system that specifies a data tiering operation; analyzing the request based on a policy to obtain an analysis result; identifying, based on the analysis result and function metadata, a first function and a second function that need to process data chunks of the stream before perf...