US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 20 for "Mixed metadata update without transactional journal in storage system with metadata delta log and log structured metadata" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,707, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Mixed metadata update without transactional journal in storage system with metadata delta log and log structured metadata" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Dror Zalstein (Givatayim, Israel) and Nimrod Shani (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for handling mixed metadata (MD) updates using an MD delta log and log structured MD. The techniques include, while performing a transaction commit operation, writing, to an MD delta log, raw delta updates to MD pages, logical-to-physical address translation table ...