US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "Extent restore performance using intelligent client-side recipe-based prefetching" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,346, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Extent restore performance using intelligent client-side recipe-based prefetching" was invented by Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.), Kedar Godbole (Pune, India), Srikant Viswanathan (Pune, India) and Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improving read performance using pre-fetches by encoding an extent map provided by an application executed on a client, where the extent map identifies valid data of the file as extents that may be interspersed with holes constituting invalid data. A server-based filesystem interprets the extent m...