US Patent Issued to NETAPP on June 16 for "Coalescing multiple small writes to large files or multiple writes to a number of small files to generate larger compressible chunks for inline compression" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,949, issued on June 16, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Coalescing multiple small writes to large files or multiple writes to a number of small files to generate larger compressible chunks for inline compression" was invented by Venkateswarlu Tella (Bangalore, India), Ankur Vineet (Gujarat, India), Palak Sharma (Haryana, India) and Sindhushree K N (Mysore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for coalescing writes to facilitate generation of larger compression groups for use during inline compression are provided. According to one embodiment, inline compression performed by a storage system is imp...