US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on June 30 for "Federated discovery controller" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,120, issued on June 30, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Federated discovery controller" was invented by Erik Smith (Douglas, Mass.), Pawan Kumar Singal (Milpitas, Calif.), Joseph LaSalle White (San Jose, Calif.) and Balaji Rajagopalan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented herein address issues related to discovery controller collaboration in multi-cloud operating environments, in which a resource storage system and a destination storage system may not be managed by the same team or process. Therefore, providing a single Centralized Discovery Controller (CDC) that can be directl...