American Megatrends Assigned Patent

American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (8,732,411) developed by four co-inventors for “data de-duplication for information storage systems.“

The co-inventors are Paresh Chatterjee, Srikumar Subramanian, Raghavan Sowrirajan, Fremont, CA and Sharon Enoch, Newark, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Technologies for eliminating duplicate data within a storage system can efficiently identify and eliminate duplication by remapping borrower regions to share physical storage space with lender regions. Block-level de-duplication can co-exist with storage architectures for thin provisioning and snapshot management. Lending maps can track redirected pointers from borrower regions to shared physical storage from lender regions. The lending maps can track the freed status of regions to support efficient write I/O operations without defaulting to unnecessary read-modify-write cycles to complete data writes. Redundancy of de-duplicated data can maintain one or more copies to support recovery from media errors. Candidate regions for de-duplication can be identified by monitoring the times and patterns of data access operations. A sampled mechanism for calculating and comparing signatures of data blocks can support the efficient identification of duplicated data within the storage system.“

The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2008 (12/274,000).