ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,032, issued on April 15, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for affinity-aware prefetching" was invented by Yaobin Qin (Minneaopolis, Minn.) and Xianbo Zhang (Plymouth, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques that provide for deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include retrieving container information for a first one or more containers of a plurality of containers of one or more backup images (where the one or more backup images were produced under an existing backup policy), generati...