ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,969, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fast truncation of large files" was invented by Zhihuan Qiu (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Nandan Paramashiva (San Jose, Calif.), Siming Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Siddesh Shinde (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for fast large file truncation. An example method includes receiving, by a data platform, a request to truncate a file, wherein data of the file is stored in a tree data structure including a plurality of nodes with leaf nodes corresponding to data of the file; determining a first node of the plurality of nodes including...