ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,318, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Grouping data to conserve storage capacity" was invented by Jonathan Smith (Bracknell, Great Britain), Mark Leverington (Tilehurst, Great Britain) and Simon Crosland (Woking, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing device stores root metadata data structures (DSs) together in a group root metadata filesystem block, and stores, in a data filesystem block, at least first file data referenced by the first root metadata DS and second file data referenced by a second root metadata DS. The computing device may determine a ...