ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,773, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Client-informed preferred restore throughput via client-side deduplication library in a deduplication filesystem" was invented by Nitin Madan (San Jose, Calif.), Kedar Godbole (Pune, India) and Aditi Tejas Gosavi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple internal read-ahead streams are established for each of a set of current restore streams handling restorations of files managed by a deduplication filesystem. An API signature is received from a client. The signature includes an identification of a file to restore and a request to pin the file as ...