US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "Techniques for compression and management of metadata" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,241, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Techniques for compression and management of metadata" was invented by Christopher Seibel (Walpole, Mass.), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and James Vega McCoy (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: updating a metadata (MD) page, including recording updates in MD log entries; and flushing the MD log entries. Flushing can include: applying the updates to a first version V1 of the MD page to generate a second version V2 of the MD page, where V1 is stored at physical address PA1; evaluatin...