US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on March 4 for "Similarity data for reduced data usage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,425, issued on March 4, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Similarity data for reduced data usage" was invented by Ethan L. Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Marco Sanvido (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method includes identifying a first content-dependent feature associated with a data sector. The method further includes determining a baseline data sector associated with the data sector. The method further includes determining, by a processing device, a content-dependent delta between the first content-dependent feature and a second content-dependent feature of the basel...