ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,754, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Synergistic data compression" was invented by Amit Zaitman (Shavey Shomron, Israel), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Aleksey Kabishcher (Milford, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flush set of data pages to flush from a cache to non-volatile data storage is identified, and a compression group is identified that is made up of similar data pages within the flush set. A previously compressed data page is identified in non-volatile data storage that is similar to the data pages in the compression group. Data compression is performed on the compression gro...