US Patent Issued to Cohesity on July 22 for "Methods and systems for space reclamation in immutable deduplication systems" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,106, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for space reclamation in immutable deduplication systems" was invented by Chao Lei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed that provide space reclamation in immutable deduplication systems, and can include selecting a unit of data of a backup image, determining whether a duplicate unit of data is stored in an existing data storage construct (the duplicate unit of data is a duplicate of the unit of data and the existing data storage construct is stored in immutable storage), and in response to a determination tha...