US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 20 for "Servicing file restorations in a deduplication filesystem using a global read-ahead pool" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,616, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Servicing file restorations in a deduplication filesystem using a global read-ahead pool" 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: "Access object (AOB) and deduplication object (DOB) services of a deduplication filesystem are provisioned across a cluster. A client-side library receives a request to restore a file, the file being divided into chunks. Read-ahead buffers at the AOBs are grouped to form a global read-ahead poo...