US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 20 for "Supporting a lookup structure for a file system implementing hierarchical reference counting" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,703, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Supporting a lookup structure for a file system implementing hierarchical reference counting" was invented by Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.), Vinay Devadas (Apex, N.C.) and Yash Hetal Trivedi (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for supporting a lookup structure for a file system implementing hierarchical reference counting. A write operation to write data to a page maintained by the file system is received. A lookup within a lookup structure is performed using information related to the page in order to identify a looku...