Druva Assigned Patent

Druva, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,700,634) developed by four co-inventors for an “efficient deduplicated storage with tiered indexing.”

The co-inventors are Anand Apte, Pune, India, Jaspreet Singh, Santa Clara, CA, Milind Borate, and Shekhar S. Deshkar, Pune, India.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A deduplicated data storage system provides high performance storage to heterogeneous clients that connect to it via a communications network. The deduplicated data storage system provides fast access to deduplication data by caching the most frequently accessed deduplication data in a hyperindex. Updates to the non-cached deduplication data are serialized by use of a store queue and hold queue.”

The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2011 (13/340,434).