US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Aug. 26 for "Identifying duplicate data based on recently read data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,825, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying duplicate data based on recently read data" was invented by Ethan L. Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deduplicating data based on recently reading the data, including: determining whether a calculated signature for write data matches a particular signature corresponding to data that was recently read from the storage device, wherein the signature is calculated using the write data as input; and after determining that the calculated signature for the write data matches the particula...