ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,409, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Proactive data management in distributed systems" was invented by William Jeffery White (Plano, Texas), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Said Tabet (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the services, control variables may be obtained and used to manage operation of the distributed system. The operation may be proactively managed by enforcing data placement standards throughout the system based, at least in part, on the control variables. The enforcement m...