ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,941, issued on March 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Management of repeatedly seen data" was invented by John D. Davis (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extending data lifetime for reference in deduplication is provided. The method includes determining that a quantity of user data has at least a threshold amount of data that is re-created in a storage system. The method includes protecting at least portions of the quantity of user data from erasure by garbage collection in the storage system during a predetermined time interval, wherein the protected at least portions are availa...