US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Temporary mapping to avoid chain of virtuals for background deduplication" (Montana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,127, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Temporary mapping to avoid chain of virtuals for background deduplication" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can create a first, persistent, data structure that indicates a location of an ingested file within a log filesystem. The system can, based on not deduplicating the file at ingest, create a second, temporary, data structure that indicates the location of the file, which comprises a logical backpointer to the file. The system can perform deduplication after creating the second data structure, ...