US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Detecting missing segments and identifying files impacted by the missing segments using a single pass distributed scan" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,673, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detecting missing segments and identifying files impacted by the missing segments using a single pass distributed scan" was invented by Srikanth Srinivasan (Bangalore, India), Chuanbo Jack Zheng (Cupertino, Calif.), Heta Saraiya (Livermore, Calif.) and Ved Prakash Tanti (Hooghly, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data in a storage system includes: partitioning segments to generate buckets; assigning a portion of the buckets to a first storage node; collecting a partition of the segments assigned as child segments; identifying: a fi...