ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,735, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network file system server proxy and protocol translation" was invented by Viral Kirtikumar Mehta (JamKhambhalia, India), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.), Poornima Gupte (Pune, India) and Omkar Anand Ekbote (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the invention relates to a method of managing a file system, by using a cluster that includes an enhanced file system redirector proxy (FSRP) node and at least one namespace access node. The method may include obtaining, by the enhanced FSRP node, a request from a client, and in resp...