US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Jan. 20 for "Consistently grouping and routing data segments for deduplication" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,321, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Consistently grouping and routing data segments for deduplication" was invented by Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.) and Abhinav Duggal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System receives data stream, groups sequential data segments associated with data stream until initial sequence of data segments is formed which is larger than minimum size. System groups sequential data segments which are next after initial sequence of data segments until next sequence of data segments is formed which combined with initi...