US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 26 for "Handling data shard fanouts in a deduplication file system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,269, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Handling data shard fanouts in a deduplication file system" was invented by Kedar Godbole (Pune, India), Chetan Chandrakant Paithane (Pune, India), Sandeep Kumar (Pune, India) and Jugal Patil (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file is segmented into upper-level segments having references to lowest-level segments. Upper-level segments are aligned at fixed-size boundaries. Shards are formed for each upper-level segment. Each shard includes references from a respective upper-level segment and is assigned to a respective similarity group within whic...