ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,325, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Support bundle processing for cluster file system serviceability" was invented by Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.) and Vishal Tiwary (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing scalable support bundle processing for cluster filesystem serviceability by collecting system statistics and log information for each node in a cluster system, and combining the collected information to form a support bundle for the cluster system that can then be transmitted to a vendor providing support. A support bundle worker component is provided in each node and a...