US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Distributed cluster join management" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,649, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Distributed cluster join management" was invented by Andrew Chanler (Berlin, Mass.), Kevin Tobin (Hopedale, Mass.) and Mathew J. Pilozzi (Plainville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nodes of the cluster receive workload tasks and use a striping algorithm to determine which node in the cluster should process the workload tasks. Workload task allocation within the cluster is dependent on the cluster membership at the time the striping algorithm is implemented. If a node leaves the cluster, the cluster membership is updated, and the striping algorithm is ...