US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 29 for "Avoiding data reduction debt for quickly overwritten data" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,114, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Avoiding data reduction debt for quickly overwritten data" was invented by Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.), Oran Baruch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ajay Karri (South Grafton, Mass.) and Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of managing writes in a data storage system includes receiving I/O requests specifying data to be written, storing a set of the data to be written in an extent of a data log, and preventing data reduction from being performed on the set of data in the extent for at least a specified time interva...