Highly scalable and distributed data de-duplication
US8452739B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 16, 2011 |
| Grant date | May 28, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 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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