US Patent Issued to Innovations In Memory on July 22 for "System and method for granular deduplication" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,958, issued on July 22, was assigned to Innovations In Memory LLC (Dover, Del.).

"System and method for granular deduplication" was invented by Amit Garg (Cupertino, Calif.), Timothy Stoakes (One Tree Hill, Australia) and Vikas Ratna (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing a memory system is described, the memory system having a processor with a client interface, a buffer memory, and a storage memory. A LUN (logical unit) is exposed to the client, the LUN having a memory size, and QoS specification. When the processor receives a command from the client to write data to the LUN, determining if the QoS spec...