US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 25 for "Scalable mapping structures for supporting log writes" (Montana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,759, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Scalable mapping structures for supporting log writes" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain, in a log filesystem, a group of virtual chunk extents arranged in a chain data structure, wherein respective virtual chunk extents of the group of virtual chunk extents comprise respective pointers to respective next virtual chunk extents, and wherein respective virtual pointers of the respective virtual chunk extents identify locations within a data chunk. The system can maintain one backpointers ...