US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 21 for "AI-driven dynamic data exclusion engine for efficient cloud tiering in storage systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,163, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"AI-driven dynamic data exclusion engine for efficient cloud tiering in storage systems" was invented by Avinash Kumar (Patna, India), Roger M. Pepper (Plainville, Mass.) and Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata about files present at clients is collected. The metadata includes values for a set of features associated with the files. The values are normalized and centroids are calculated. For each file, a comparison is performed of a normalized value of a feature associated with a file against a respective centroid c...