US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus to verify file metadata in a deduplication filesystem" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,288, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus to verify file metadata in a deduplication filesystem" was invented by Smriti Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.), Tony T. Wong (Cary, N.C.) and Pooja Mahadik (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes finding an Ln segment in a namespace, and adding the Ln segment to a fingerprint hashtable, scanning a container set and locating Ln in the container set, looking for Ln in the fingerprint hashtable, when Ln is found in the fingerprint hashtable, deleting Ln from the fingerprint hashtable, otherwise, retaining Ln in t...