US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "Providing deduplication filesystem operations to a backup utility native to an application" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,312, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Providing deduplication filesystem operations to a backup utility native to an application" was invented by Vishal Kailasrao Lonari (Pune, India), Vikas Jagannath Chaudhary (Pune, India) and Aditi Tejas Gosavi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system call of a Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) library at a client is mapped to first and second operations of a deduplication filesystem, the system call performing an in-kernel copy between source and destination file descriptors. A filesystem mount point of the deduplication filesystem is presented to...