US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 7 for "Maintaining fastcopy-overwrite optimization using key-value pair file handles for backups cloned across namespaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,617, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Maintaining fastcopy-overwrite optimization using key-value pair file handles for backups cloned across namespaces" was invented by Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.), Sanjay Vedanthan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srisailendra Yallapragada (Cupertino, Calif.), Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.), Neerajkumar Chourasia (San Ramon, Calif.) and Alok Katiyar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhancing data replication performance by preserving fastcopy-overwrite optimization for backups cloned across namespace subdivisions in a deduplication filesystem...