US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 20 for "Techniques for providing I/O atomicity and preventing deadlock for cross slice border I/Os in a distributed storage system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,132, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for providing I/O atomicity and preventing deadlock for cross slice border I/Os in a distributed storage system" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel) and Lior Kamran (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: receiving, at a first node of a system, a cross slice border (CSB) I/O with a target location that crosses a CSB between two slices owned by different nodes; adding an entry for the CSB and CSB I/O to a cross border hash table (CBHT) of the first node; acquiring...