ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,684, issued on April 7, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for searching deduplicated data" was invented by Philip Shilane (Newtown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deduplicated storage system storing objects receives a search term. Storage includes metadata and segments into which the objects have been split and deduplicated. Metadata includes fingerprint sequences according to which the segments should be assembled. A partial match is found when a prefix of the term is found at an end of a segment or a suffix is found at a beginning of the segment. The partial matches are recorded a...