US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 15 for "Advanced deduplication efficiency by candidate sequence selection" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,137, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Advanced deduplication efficiency by candidate sequence selection" was invented by Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing improved advanced deduplication efficiency by candidate sequence selection. The techniques include generating a score for each candidate sequence from among multiple candidate sequences based on dedupe criteria, such as a number of dedupe hints associated with pages in the candidate sequence. The techniques include performing an unaligned dedupe pro...