ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,293, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Asynchronous client to client task management" was invented by Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas), Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Michael Raineri (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates a task object and a task updater object upon receipt of a request from an out-of-band client to execute a task on a processing unit via an in-band client, receives a status update from the in-band client upon execution of the task on the processing unit, and maps the task updater object to the task object associated with the task. The...