US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Jan. 13 for "Estimating data file union sizes using minhash" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,386, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Estimating data file union sizes using minhash" was invented by Tony Tzeming Wong (Apex, N.C.) and Smriti Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identify first file's minimum value from at least value from applying function to first file's segment and value from applying function to first file's second segment. Identify first file's second minimum value from at least value from applying second function to first file's segment and value from applying second function to first file's second segment. Identify second file's minimum value ...