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Opportunistic asynchronous deduplication using an in-memory cache

US9612749B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 19, 2015
Grant dateApr 4, 2017
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Expiry dateOct 6, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2212/466
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Examples perform asynchronous deduplication of storage, such as virtualized or physical disks. Incoming input/output (I/O) commands containing data are subdivided into blocks which are written both to storage and to an in-memory cache. As idle processing resources become available, deduplication is performed on the storage using the in-memory cache. In this manner, read operations from storage are avoided in favor of the read operations from the in-memory cache.

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