Preferential selection of candidates for delta compression
US8712978B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2012 |
| Grant date | Apr 29, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 18, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03M7/3091
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system for improving efficiency in a delta compression process in a data storage system selects a data chunk to delta compress and selects a set of candidate data chunks using a first selection mechanism. Throughput or resource utilization is monitored. A change is made to a second selection mechanism that increases similarity of the set of candidates with the selected data chunk to improve compression in response to determining high resource availability or high throughput level. A change is made to a third selection mechanism that increases throughput of the delta compression process in response to determining low resources availability or low throughput.
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