US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 27 for "Preventing undesired deletes on protection storage using delete restriction with alerts for excessive deletes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,310, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Preventing undesired deletes on protection storage using delete restriction with alerts for excessive deletes" was invented by Mark Malamut (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Arun Murti (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described for preventing undesired data deletion on protection storage by using delete restrictions and issuing user alerts if an excessive number of deletions are requested within a period of time. The number of deletions per time period is recorded and stored as hash counts. ...