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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Aasted, Cambridge, MA (US);
Meera Shah, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Saman P. Amarasinghe, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy Garnett, Boston, MA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Instead of transferring a large original file, such as a virtual-machine image file, from a source system to a target system, the original file is encoded to define a recipe file that is transferred. The recipe is then decoded to yield a duplicate of the original file on the target system. Encoding involves identifying standard blocks in the original file and including standard-block identifiers for the standard blocks in the recipe in lieu of the original blocks. Decoding involves an exchange with a standard-block identifier server system, which provides standard blocks in response to received standard-block identifiers.