US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Method to keep on-disk physical deduplication index layer up to date" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,466, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method to keep on-disk physical deduplication index layer up to date" was invented by Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel), Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and Amit Zaitman (Shavey Shomron, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for keeping on-disk, physical deduplication ("dedupe") index levels up to date to increase the efficiency of data deduplication in storage systems. The techniques include providing a plurality of dedupe indexes across a memory level and a disk level of a storage system, in which the plurality of dedupe indexes include an in...