ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,365, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and system for differential deduplication in untrusted storage" was invented by Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and system for differential deduplication of data blocks in an untrusted storage. An example system determines first data blocks of similar data blocks as reference data blocks and second data blocks of the identified similar data blocks which are compressed using the reference data blocks to enable differential deduplication of data blocks."
The patent...