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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Uri Shabi, Tel Mond, IL;
Vladimir Shveidel, Pardes-Hana, IL;
Maor Rahamim, Ramla, IL;
Ronen Gazit, Tel Aviv, IL;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of performing deduplication is provided. The method includes (a) selecting, by applying a deterministic selection criterion, a sub-block of a block of data that contains multiple sub-blocks; (b) performing a lookup, into a deduplication table, of a digest generated by hashing the selected sub-block, the lookup matching an entry indexed by the digest in the deduplication table, the entry identifying a previously processed block; and (c) effecting storage of the block, including pointing to the previously processed block. An apparatus, system, and computer program product for performing a similar method are also provided.