US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Deallocating storage resources based on metadata of a deleted object" (Chinese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,042, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Deallocating storage resources based on metadata of a deleted object" was invented by Yi Ye (Shanghai), Kalyan C. Gunda (Bangalore, India) and Jiang Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technologies described herein are generally directed toward deallocating storage resources based on metadata of a deleted object. In an embodiment, a method can include, based on an indication that a data object stored using storage resources of a data storage system is to be deleted, identifying metadata of a first chunk of storage of the data storage system. T...