Copiun (Good Technology) Assigned Patent
Highly scalable and distributed data de-dupe
By Francis Pelletier | August 31, 2015 at 3:14 pmCopiun, Inc., Northborough, MA (acquired by Good Technology), has been assigned a patent (9,110,915) developed by Jain, Sanjay, Northborough, MA, and Chaudhry, Puneesh, Northbridge, MA, for a “highly scalable and distributed data de-duplication.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”This disclosure relates to systems and methods for both maintaining referential integrity within a data storage system, and freeing unused storage in the system, without the need to maintain reference counts to the blocks of storage used to represent and store the data.“
The patent application was filed on April 18, 2013 (13/865,552).