ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,947, issued on July 15.
"Method for reducing primary and backup storage" was invented by Asaf Yeger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Michael Gutman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Shmoolik Yosub (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Shahar Salzman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), David Segal (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Idan Zach (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method identifies target device file matches of a source file based on file size and hash values. The method includes storing a first source file hash value of the first source file, wherein the first source file hash value was generated by apply...