US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 16 for "Asynchronous distributed de-duplication for replicated content addressable storage clusters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,949, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Asynchronous distributed de-duplication for replicated content addressable storage clusters" was invented by Gia Datuashvili (Cupertino, Calif.), Alexander Kesselman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexandre Drobychev (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by a device of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system. The method includes storing an index of objects in the distributed data replication system, the index being replicated while the objects are stored locally by the plurality of devices in the distributed data...