US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 11 for "Synthesizing full content using file extents without namespace impact" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,142, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Synthesizing full content using file extents without namespace impact" was invented by Nitin Madan (San Jose, Calif.), Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improving extent-based read performance using pre-fetches by utilizing synthesized sequential extent files in a deduplication storage system. Synthesized content for the extents is created on a server. The synthesized content is headed by a content handle and stored in a stateful context data structure for lookup by the client. This...