US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 30 for "Reducing a size of metadata for online deduplication operations" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,302, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Reducing a size of metadata for online deduplication operations" was invented by Gabriel Zvi BenHanokh (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Joshua Durgin (Canyon Country, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metadata size can be reduced for online deduplication operations. For example, a computing device can generate a metadata entry describing a data block in a metadata table comprising a plurality of metadata entries describing a plurality of data blocks. The computing device can determine a length of time to be associated with the metadata entry for maintaining the meta...