ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,112, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Memory controller and method for detecting data similarity for deduplication in a data storage system" was invented by Ovad Somech (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Idan Zach (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Aviv Kuvent (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller is for receiving incoming data and storing and/or transmitting the incoming data utilizing deduplication. The memory controller determines a second hash corresponding to one or more first hashes. The second hash is a sparse hash and the...