Dell Products Assigned Patent

Dell Products, Round Rock, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,156,296) developed by Nam V. Nguyen, Round Rock, TX, and Jacob Cherian, Austin, TX, for a "system and method for managing resets in a system using shared storage."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of managing storage device resets in a system using shared storage is provided. A reset instruction is received at a shared storage device from a first node. In response, the storage device is at least partially reset, including aborting one or more queued I/O commands including a first I/O command received from a second node. A reset notification timer is started. If an I/O command is received from the second node during the reset notification timer, in response to receiving the I/O command the second node is notified of the storage device reset such that the second node can determine that the first I/O command was aborted. If no I/O command is received from the second node during the reset notification timer, at the expiration of the timer, the second node is notified of the storage device reset such that the second node can determine that the first I/O command was aborted."

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2006 (11/460,889).