ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,162, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"File system metadata deduplication" was invented by Anubhav Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sachin Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Shreyas Talele (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zhihuan Qiu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "File metadata structures of a file system are analyzed. At least one metadata element that is duplicated among the analyzed file metadata structures is identified. The at least one identified metadata element is deduplicated including by modifying at least one of the file metadata structures to reference a same instance of the identified met...