US Patent Issued to Google on June 2 for "Method and system for deleting obsolete files from a file system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,642, issued on June 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for deleting obsolete files from a file system" was invented by Yasushi Saito (Mountain View, Calif.), Sanjay Ghemawat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeffrey Adgate Dean (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deleting obsolete files from a file system is provided. The method includes receiving a request to delete a reference to a first target file of a plurality of target files stored in a file system, the first target file having a first target file name. A first reference file whose file name includes the first target f...