ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,859, issued on March 25, was assigned to GSI Technology Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Deduplication of data via associative similarity search" was invented by Avidan Akerib (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dan Ilan (Herzliya, Israel), Eli Ehrman (Beit Shemesh, Israel) and Elona Erez (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deduplication system includes a similarity searcher, a difference calculator, and a storage manager. The similarity searcher searches for a similar fingerprint in a database storing a plurality of local sensitive fingerprints, resembling a new fingerprint of a new block. The difference calculator computes a difference b...