US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 8 for "Elastic, ephemeral in-line deduplication service" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,370, issued on July 8, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Elastic, ephemeral in-line deduplication service" was invented by Saeed Ghanbari (New Haven, Conn.), Barry Patrick Benight (San Jose, Calif.), Deepak Raghu Kenchammana-Hosekote (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shiva Chaitanya (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deduplication service can be provided to a storage domain from a services framework that expands and contracts to both meet service demand to conform to resource management of a compute domain. The deduplication service maintains a fingerprint database and reference count data in compute domain re...