US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Distributed and deduplicating file system for storing backup data to object storage" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,844, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed and deduplicating file system for storing backup data to object storage" was invented by Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.), Abhinav Duggal (Fremont, Calif.), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.) and Chegu Vinod (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed and deduplicating file system that stores backup data to object storage is described. A node, in a cluster of nodes, receives a write operation to back up a data file, and identifies backup data associated with the write operation. The node identifies deduplicated data by deduplicating ...