US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 2 for "Data deduplication techniques for distributed computing environments" (American, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,971, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data deduplication techniques for distributed computing environments" was invented by Mohamed Sohail (Sheikh Zayed, Egypt) and Said Tabet (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for deduplicating data in distributed computing environments are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a node of a distributed computing system, a set of data from an edge device, and identifying a data type corresponding to the set of data from among a plurality of data types. The...