US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 30 for "Techniques for efficient flushing using opportunistic deduplication" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,262, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for efficient flushing using opportunistic deduplication" was invented by Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel), Maor Rahamim (Ramla, Israel) and Amit Zaitman (Shavey Shomron, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include: recording, in a log, log entries for write operations writing data pages to logical addresses; and flushing the log entries from the log, wherein flushing includes performing deduplication of the data pages. Flushing can include: partitioning the data pages into i) a first portion of the data pages that are determined to ...