US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 21 for "Semi-analytical centroid-based real-time data tiering solution for efficient storage optimization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,164, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Semi-analytical centroid-based real-time data tiering solution for efficient storage optimization" 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: "Values corresponding to a set of features associated with each file of a set of files are collected. The features include an access frequency, modification time, sensitivity level, retention priority, and file type. The values are normalized and centroids are calculated. Normalized values and corresponding...