ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,864, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Local storage node performance enhancement" was invented by Kaustubh Sahasrabudhe (Westborough, Morocco), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.) and Steve Ivester (Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for enhancing local node performance in a storage system through offloading cache replacement tasks to remote nodes. A periodic time-series analysis of CPU cycle utilization and network latency is conducted on one or more arrays to identify and/or forecast underutilized nodes in the one or more arrays. A first array de...