US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 18 for "Offloading client-side deduplication operations using a data processing unit" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,086, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Offloading client-side deduplication operations using a data processing unit" was invented by Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.), Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Chegu Vinod (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for performing the inline deduplication by filtering streaming data as it is received by a backup client through a backup server executing a backup process. A data processing unit (DPU) is deployed to offload certain processing operations performed by a central processing unit (CPU) of the backup client. An inline...