US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 22 for "Limiting deduplication search domains" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,673, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Limiting deduplication search domains" was invented by Miles Mulholland (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Imran Imtiaz (Manchester, Great Britain) and Anuj Chandra (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote copy relationship is maintained between a local computational device and a remote computational device for a first storage volume and a second storage volume. The local computational device transmits information to the remote computational device, wherein the information indicates that there are no deduplication matches between the f...