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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
VAST DATA LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A method for storing a received data chunk (DC) in a storage system, the method includes (a) obtaining a received fingerprint of the received DC, the received fingerprint may include received fingerprint elements that are indicative of occurrences, within the received DC, of content elements, the received fingerprint elements are ordered according to a given order; (b) searching, within a tree, for a similar stored fingerprint; the tree may include tree nodes that represent multiple stored fingerprints of stored data chunks that are stored in the storage system; different levels of the tree are allocated to different content elements; (c) compressing, when finding the similar stored fingerprint, the received DC based on a similar DC associated with the similar stored fingerprint, and updating storage system metadata to indicate that the received DC is stored in the storage system in a compressed form, and based on the similar stored DC.