ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,892, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Fingerprint tracking structure for storage system" was invented by Richard Phillip Mayo (Bristol, Great Britain), Andrew Skinner (Bristol, Great Britain) and Joshua Peck (Wales, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to deduplication operations in a storage system. An example includes receiving data units to be stored in a persistent storage of a deduplication storage system; generating a fingerprint for each received data unit; identifying a set of fingerprints to be stored in container indexes, ...