Remote deduplication of data in a storage system
US11314433B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 20, 2020 |
| Grant date | Apr 26, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 11, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/9014
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Use of a deduplication module remote from a storage system for storage of data subject to deduplication by the remote deduplication module. The storage system may generate a hash of target data and send the hash of the target data to the remote deduplication module. The remote deduplication module may access a hash database corresponding to the storage system and apply a deduplication algorithm on the hash. In turn, information regarding a deduplication result may be returned to the storage system which may either store the unique target data or update a mapping between the target data and duplicate existing data in a persistent storage of the storage device. The remote deduplication module may be executed by scalable cloud resources such that the computational resources dedicated to the deduplication module may be scaled.
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