US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 29 for "Utilizing a lock manager for a cluster-level write back cache" (Massachusetts, Washington, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,702, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Utilizing a lock manager for a cluster-level write back cache" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.), Max Laier (Seattle) and Arthur Lent (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain a filesystem across nodes of a cluster. The system can, based on receiving a first request from a first node to ingest or write data to a location on a second node, issue, by a lock manager, a write lock on the location of the second node. The system can, based on the first node receiving the write lock, write, by the first node, the dat...