US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 21 for "Offloading data compression during restores to a data processing unit in a deduplication backup system" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,979, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Offloading data compression during restores to a data processing unit in a deduplication backup system" was invented by Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.), Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Chegu Vinod (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for performing the inline deduplication by filtering streaming data as it is received by a backup client through a backup server executing a backup process. A data processing unit (DPU) is deployed to offload certain processing operations performed by a central processing unit (CPU) of th...