US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "Method or apparatus for scalable file verification in a deduplicated filesystem" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,376, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method or apparatus for scalable file verification in a deduplicated filesystem" was invented by Pooja Mahadik (Pune, India) and Smriti Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes calculating a size of a fingerprint hashtable, calculating a number of verification passes that are needed, partitioning a fingerprint index table into index ranges corresponding to the number of verification passes needed, and during each verification pass for each index range: (1) finding all Ln segments in a namespace, and adding the Ln...