ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,726, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Dynamic compression for data replication" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage arrays include inline compression hardware that can simultaneously implement multiple compression levels at line rate. For each compression level, compression efficiency is inversely related to processing efficiency. A compression level is dynamically selected for segments of replication data based on one or more of compression hardware utilization, network utilization, network latency, data c...