US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 4 for "Efficient retention locking of a copy of a large namespace on a deduplication filesystem" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,355, issued on March 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Efficient retention locking of a copy of a large namespace on a deduplication filesystem" was invented by Salil Dangi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Nitin Madan (San Jose, Calif.) and Naveen Rastogi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes generating first and second snapshots of a shared protection namespace of a backup storage device. The first snapshot includes a first working frozen copy of an active namespace and the second snapshot includes a second work working frozen copy of the active namespace. The first snapshot is ...