ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,246, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Upgrade infrastructure with integration points" was invented by Patricia Lee Allen (Hollis, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upgrading a cluster can include: defining integration points associated with workflow processing points of an upgrade workflow; associating a code entity with an integration point; and performing processing that executes the upgrade workflow to upgrade storage appliances, wherein first and second software clusters are installed on the storage appliances, wherein upgrading the storage appliances includes upgrading the first and secon...