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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kedar Patwardhan, Irvine, CA (US);

Anand Ghatnekar, Pune, IN;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for adding backups to de-duplicated storage and for removing backups from de-duplicated storage are disclosed. Backups can be added to the de-duplicated storage with minimal reference count updates. Backup data sets can be removed without garbage collection processes being performed on the de-duplicated storage.


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