US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 15 for "Snapshot repair in a deduplication storage system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,262, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Snapshot repair in a deduplication storage system" was invented by Joshua Peck (Bristol, Great Britain), Jack Smith (Bristol, Great Britain) and Richard Phillip Mayo (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 identifying a corrupt data unit included in a first snapshot; identifying a first manifest that references the corrupt data unit; identifying, based on the first manifest, a first container index that indexes the corru...