US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 8 for "Method, device, and computer program product for data deduplication" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,742, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for data deduplication" was invented by Changxu Jiang (Chengdu, China) and Fei Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data deduplication compress and deduplicate a first set of blocks written to a source system to obtain a second set of blocks and compression ratios and numbers of duplications for blocks in the second set of blocks. Such techniques receive a request to back up the first set of blocks. Such techniques reconstruct, in response to receiving the request to back up the first...