US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 9 for "Data storage system with streamlined deduplication during write log flushing" (Israeli, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,776, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data storage system with streamlined deduplication during write log flushing" was invented by Amit Zaitman (Shavey Shomron, Israel), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Geng Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of data deduplication during log flushing includes use of an in-memory deduplication index as a cached sub-set of entries from a full on-drive deduplication index. In a pre-flush process, the data is scanned and the on-drive index is accessed to identify matching deduplication entries, and identified entries are copied into the in-memo...