US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Jan. 27 for "Adaptive aggregation and compression of metadata" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,140, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Adaptive aggregation and compression of metadata" was invented by Or Friedmann (Ra'anana, Israel) and Gabriel Zvi BenHanokh (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program are disclosed for aggregating and compressing a plurality of metadata attributes related to an object. For example, a system including a memory and a processor in communication with the memory, where the processor is configured to: measure an access pattern for the plurality of metadata attributes, apply an assigned ...