ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,298, issued on April 8, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Deduplicating data chunks using chunk objects" was invented by Enning Xiang (San Jose, Calif.), Wenguang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yifan Wang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes deduplicating data chunks using chunk objects. A batch of data chunks is obtained from an original data object and a hash value is calculated for each data chunk. A first duplicate data chunk is identified using the hash value and a hash map. A chunk logical block address (LBA) of a chunk object is assigned to the duplicate data chunk. Pa...