US Patent Issued to Cohesity on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for measuring entropy during file backups" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,892, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for measuring entropy during file backups" was invented by Souvik Dutta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Surender V. Brahmaroutu (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for measuring entropy during file backups may include (i) detecting an initiation of a backup process for a backup image including multiple files, wherein each of the files is associated with a set of blocks, (ii) sampling, during the backup process, a random selection of a fraction of the blocks associated with each of the files, (iii) de...