US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 30 for "System and method for expanding the lifetime of virtual entries in data storage systems" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,055, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for expanding the lifetime of virtual entries in data storage systems" was invented by Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for expanding the lifetime of virtual entries in a data storage system. A deduplication function of a virtual layer of a data storage system is monitored, a reference count of a virtual entry is incremented when a data page is written to a physical layer o...