US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on April 22 for "Optimal cluster selection in hierarchical clustering of files" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,453, issued on April 22, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Optimal cluster selection in hierarchical clustering of files" was invented by Tony Tzeming Wong (Milpitas, Calif.) and Smriti Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system partitions files, including segments identified by fingerprints. into clusters. The system counts common fingerprints by counting fingerprints which correspond to both a file cluster and another file cluster. The system counts unique fingerprints by counting fingerprints which correspond to the file cluster and/or the other file cluster. The system uses the comm...