US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Feb. 4 for "Granular data source identification for obtaining deduplication storage efficiency within a clustered environment" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,547, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Granular data source identification for obtaining deduplication storage efficiency within a clustered environment" was invented by Abhishek Rajimwale (San Jose, Calif.), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.), Murthy Mamidi (San Jose, Calif.) and Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system (and method) that maintains deduplication efficiency when storing data within a clustered data storage environment that implements a global namespace. To provide such a capability, the system may obtain granular data source ide...