Veritas Technologies Assigned Patent

Veritas Technologies LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (12189493) developed by Qin; Yaobin, Minneapolis, MN, and Zhang; Xianbo, Plymouth, MN, for “methods and systems for improved deduplication performance using prefetched backup information.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like are disclosed that provide for improved deduplication performance using prefetched backup information. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include generating new feature information for a new backup image, (for each existing backup image in a plurality of existing backup images) comparing the new feature information with existing feature information for the each existing backup image, identifying one or more existing backup images of the plurality of existing backup images, and prefetching the one or more existing backup images. The feature information is generated as an output of a machine learning process. The machine learning process receives at least a portion of data of the new backup image as an input. The one or more existing backup images are identified based, at least in part, on a result of the comparing.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-03-31 (16/836306).