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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Dilip N. Simha, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Sandholm, Mountain View, CA (US);
Julio Lopez, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/172 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1752 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/152 (2019.01); G06F 16/172 (2019.01); G06F 16/1873 (2019.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for deduplicating data are provided. An index used in deduplicating data is distributed to clients. The clients can use the distributed index to provide hints as to whether the data is deduplicated at the server. The server may be associated with a main index used to confirm whether the data is deduplicated based on the hints.