ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,107, issued on June 24, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Deduplication selection and optimization" was invented by John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ethan L. Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for implementing deduplication process based on performance analyses. The system may include a processing device to determine a first performance metric associated with retrieving a second stored data block that is within a specified range of a duplicate of the first data block and a second performance metric associated with retrieving a hash...