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Highly scalable and distributed data de-duplication

US8452739B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 16, 2011
Grant dateMay 28, 2013
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Expiry dateMay 20, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/1752
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

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.

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