US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Dec. 9 for "Reducing communication overhead for replica garbage collection" (Chinese, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,606, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Reducing communication overhead for replica garbage collection" was invented by Huidong Qu (Shanghai), Dong Wang (Shanghai), Vicky Huiqin Sheng (Shanghai), Haoyuan Song (Shanghai) and Kenneth Andersen (Fermoy, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technologies relate to efficient data collection. For instance, data collection information is generated based on a source data block and a target data block in a local data station. The data collection information is sent to a remote data station for data collection thereby based on the data collect...