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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Alexander Shknevsky, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Uri Shabi, Tel Mond, IL;
Vamsi K. Vankamamidi, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computing system for maintaining a pointer quantity count for each of a plurality of virtual mapping groups, wherein each virtual mapping group is associated with a duplicative data portion within a storage platform and each pointer quantity count defines the number of pointers included within the corresponding virtual mapping group; and obtaining a hash value for a specific duplicative data portion associated with a specific virtual mapping group if a specific pointer quantity count for the specific virtual mapping group is reduced to zero.