VIA Technologies Assigned Patent

VIA Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11709609) developed by Tsai; Chin-Yin, and Lai; Yi-Lin, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “data storage system and global deduplication method thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage system and a global deduplication method thereof are provided. The data storage system includes multiple storage devices and one dispatch device. The dispatch device divides an original data corresponding to a data writing request into at least one data chunk. The dispatch device performs a summary calculation on one data chunk, so as to generate a representative value. The dispatch device performs a first distribution calculation on the representative value, so as to determine a destination location corresponding to the representative value. The dispatch device transmits the data chunk and the representative value to at least one destination storage device among the storage devices through a communication network according to the destination location. The at least one destination storage device checks the representative value, so as to determine whether to store the data chunk in a storage space of the at least one destination storage device.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-03-08 (17/195551).