US Patent Issued to EMC IP HOLDING on July 1 for "Method, device and computer readable medium for garbage collection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,205, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method, device and computer readable medium for garbage collection" was invented by Jingrong Zhao (Chengdu, China), Qingxiao Zheng (Chengdu, China) and Yi Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage medium for data collection. The method includes: determining, based on a flag associated with at least some nodes in a tree representation in the backup system, whether a node in the tree representation is associated with a valid backup or an invalid ba...