US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 12 for "Servicing file restorations in a deduplication filesystem using a read-ahead cache" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,774, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Servicing file restorations in a deduplication filesystem using a read-ahead cache" was invented by Nitin Madan (San Jose, Calif.), Kedar Godbole (Pune, India), Aditi Tejas Gosavi (Pune, India) and Srikant Viswanathan (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access object (AOB) service receives a restore stream from a client for a file managed by a deduplication filesystem. The file is represented by a segment tree including segments in an upper level referencing chunks of the file. The upper level segments are grouped into similarity groups and the si...