ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,304, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Coordinating deduplication among nodes" was invented by Rachel Fraenkel-Saban (Yeruham, Israel), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Boaz Sela (Lehavim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques coordinate deduplication among nodes. The techniques involve, in response to a lookup query to search a deduplication index for an entry that maps a fingerprint which is based on incoming data, detecting an invalid result. The techniques further involve, in response to detecting the invalid result, updating the deduplication index to include an entry that map...