US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on Sept. 1 for "Optimized restoration of deduplicated data" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,743, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Optimized restoration of deduplicated data" was invented by Saurabh Agrawal (Manalapan, N.J.) and Manoj Kumar Vijayan (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein are well suited to restoring deduplicated backup data from cloud-based storage and from multi-node replicated files systems, and they also improve performance in more traditional data storage technologies. Pre-restore steps include analysis of deduplication indexes to identify data segments that are stored consecutively on storage media. Reading data in aggreg...