US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on May 13 for "Deduplication based on archival schedule" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,306, issued on May 13, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Deduplication based on archival schedule" was invented by Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India) and Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can identify a first group of files that are scheduled to be modified by another operation within a next defined amount of time. The system can remove the first group of files from the files of the file system with respect to a deduplication operation to produce a second group of files. The system can perform a sampling phase on the second group of files, wherein the sampling phase identifies a first gr...