US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 28 for "Storing namespace metadata in a key value store to facilitate space efficient point in time snapshots" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,791, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Storing namespace metadata in a key value store to facilitate space efficient point in time snapshots" was invented by Abhinav Duggal (Fremont, Calif.), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.) and Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata of a file system is maintained in a key value store. The metadata includes a namespace represented as a B+ tree having pages written to the key value store. Identifiers to the pages include a snapshot identifier and a page number. The identifiers are stored as keys in the key value store. The snapshot i...