US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 14 for "Extent reads at random offsets by synthesizing extents to leverage sequential restore performance" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,861, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Extent reads at random offsets by synthesizing extents to leverage sequential restore performance" was invented by Nitin Madan (San Jose, Calif.), Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improving extent-based read performance using pre-fetches by utilizing synthesized sequential extent files in a deduplication storage system. Extent information is obtained for changes between two generations (e.g., Generation 0 and Generation 1) of backup files. In a client-server system, the client will...