US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 27 for "Dynamic selection between compression algorithms to achieve a target data reduction ratio" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,353, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Dynamic selection between compression algorithms to achieve a target data reduction ratio" was invented by Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.) and Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for enabling dynamic selection between compression algorithms to achieve a target data reduction ratio is provided to predict, on a per-extent basis, whether a write operation targeting a piece of data on a particular extent would be preferentially compressed using either compression algorithm A or compression algorithm B. By selec...