ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,765, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Method for defragmentation management" was invented by Ron Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eli Malul (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alex Soukhman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eyal Gordon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oren Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for defragmentation management, the method includes (a) moving, by a defragmentation process related to a set of database entries, content of a current subset of the set to a next subset of the set; (b) marking the current subset as being moved and linking the current subset to a location of the next subset...