ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,091, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Prioritized deduplication" was invented by Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India) and Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can determine to perform deduplication on a group of directories in a file system. The system can determine respective deduplication ratios of respective directories of the group of directories, wherein the respective deduplication ratios comprise respective ratios of respective logical sizes of the respective directories to respective physical sizes of the respective directories. The system can perform the deduplica...