US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 13 for "Role-based permissions in a distributed permissions network" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,734, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Role-based permissions in a distributed permissions network" was invented by Bradley Keith Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Joseph Brent Caisse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endpoint node of a multiple node environment includes a storage and a processor. The storage stores an owner public key for an owner of the endpoint node. The processor receives a work request for a job to be performed in the endpoint. The work request is signed with a first private key for a first user node. The processor retrieves first and second certificates. The fi...