ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,784, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SECLORE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Intelligent file system scan" was invented by Darashan Singh Yadav (Bikaner, India) and Mohd Hamza (Moradabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may parse, during a current filesystem check, a sparse file stream comprising a plurality of Update Sequence Numbers (USNs). A system may access a checkpoint USN that is locally stored apart from the sparse file stream and serves as a checkpoint of a prior USN that was accessed during a prior filesystem check. A system may identify a next byte offset for a next USN of a file in the sparse fi...