US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Nov. 11 for "Efficient cleanup/defragmentation mechanism for expired retention locked (compliance and governance) segments in deduped cloud objects" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,604, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Efficient cleanup/defragmentation mechanism for expired retention locked (compliance and governance) segments in deduped cloud objects" was invented by Jagannathdas Rath (Karnataka, India) and Kalyan C. Gunda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes identifying a cloud object as a potential candidate for defragmentation, evaluating the cloud object to determine what portion of segments of the cloud object are expired, when the portion of expired segments meets or exceeds a threshold, segregating the expired segments...