ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,139, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Inline housekeeping for a deduplication storage system" was invented by Aman Sahil (Bristol, Great Britain), Callum Murray (Bristol, Great Britain) and Richard Phillip Mayo (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to deduplication operations in a storage system. An example includes receiving a stream of data units to be stored in a persistent storage of a deduplication storage system; loading a first container index into the memory to index one or more data units included in the stream; updat...