ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,868, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"Managed file compaction for distributed storage systems" was invented by Pradeep Rao (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques implemented by file-compaction system that monitors storage containers in distributed storage systems, identifies small files that have been added to the storage containers, and automatically compacts the small files into larger files. Distributed file systems are well-equipped to manage large data files, but handling small files can slow the processing and analyzing of files, increase the retrieval time of files, et...