US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 27 for "Dictionary based variable compression/dedup inode mapping" (Washington, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,588, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dictionary based variable compression/dedup inode mapping" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.) and Max Laier (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can store data in a filesystem as blocks. The system can select a similarity hash type for a first block of the blocks from a group of similarity hash types based on a file type associated with data of the first block. The system can perform a corresponding similarity hash on the first block according to the similarity hash type, to produce a first hash. The system can identify a seco...