ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,650, issued on May 12, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Metadata compaction" was invented by Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Kumaran Nagappan (San Jose, Calif.), Sriram Venketaraman (Bangalore, India), Szu-Wen Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yong Eun Cho (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are c...