US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 15 for "Overflow container indexes for a deduplication storage system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,263, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Overflow container indexes for a deduplication storage system" was invented by Callum Murray (Bristol, 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 a data stream that includes multiple locality portions. The example also includes, upon determining that a first container index for a first portion has insufficient capacity to store metadata of a first set of new data units in the first portion, instantiating a first overflow co...