US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 31 for "Input/output fencing of a shared cloud storage volume" (Israeli, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,365, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Input/output fencing of a shared cloud storage volume" was invented by Yuval Harduf (Yahud, Israel), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat Gan, Israel), Dmitry Vladimirovich Krivenok (Dublin) and Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a first node detects a condition indicating that a second node has possibly failed, the first node changes information associated with the second node without communicating with the second node. The changing of the information associated with the potentially failing second node prevents that node from subseque...