US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on June 23 for "Soft deletion and restoration of clustered file systems" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,125, issued on June 23, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Soft deletion and restoration of clustered file systems" was invented by Michael Baptist (Boise, Idaho) and Steven Soumpholphakdy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method facilitating soft deletion and restoration of clustered file systems includes, in response to receiving an instruction to temporarily disable a computing cluster, creating, by a system including at least one processor, snapshots of volumes associated with a virtual machine (VM) of the computing cluster; generating, by the system, mapping data representative of a mapping betw...