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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:
Dec. 04, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2006
Applicants:
Ming Benjamin Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kai LI, Princeton, NJ (US);
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ming Benjamin Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kai Li, Princeton, NJ (US);
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Data Domain, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for providing efficient data storage. A data stream comprising a plurality of data segments is received. The system determines whether one of the plurality of data segments has been stored previously using a summary in a low latency memory; in the event that the data segment is determined not to have been stored previously, assigning an identifier to the data segment.