US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 19 for "Choosing among storage optimizations when storing candidate data" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,176, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Choosing among storage optimizations when storing candidate data" was invented by Rachel Fraenkel-Saban (Yeruham, Israel), Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel) and Aleksey Kabishcher (Milford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage technique involves detecting that candidate data is deduplicatable within a storage array. The technique further involves, in response to detecting that the candidate data is deduplicatable within the storage array, evaluating whether to perform a compression operation on the candidate data in place of performing a deduplicati...