ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,175, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Assessing the effectiveness of an archival job" was invented by Shiv Kumar (Pune, India) and Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An archival job is assessed to calculate loss of data reduction efficiency due to block-level data deduplication. Archivable data, or individual storage objects or data structures therein, are moved to archival storage contingent upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition related to data reduction efficiency. Archivable data, or individual storage objects or data structures therein, that fail to satisfy t...