US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "System and method for hash-based data deduplication" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,701, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for hash-based data deduplication" was invented by Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for maintaining a pointer quantity count for each of a plurality of virtual mapping groups, wherein each virtual mapping group is associated with a duplicative data portion within a storage platform and each pointer quantity count defines the number of pointers included within the corresponding ...