US Patent Application 18340853. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM simplified abstract
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Kun Guan of Saint Petersburg (RU)
Jianqiang Shen of Hangzhou (CN)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 18340853 Titled 'METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes a method used by a storage system to compress data. The system first checks if deduplication can be done on a specific data block. If not, it finds a similar fingerprint of the data block and identifies a group of combined data blocks that it belongs to. The system then compresses the data block using a reference block from the identified group.
Original Abstract Submitted
In a method for compressing data, a storage system determines whether deduplication can be performed on a target data block. When deduplication cannot be performed on the target data block, the storage system obtaining a similar fingerprint of the target data block, and determines, based on the similar fingerprint, a combined data block group to which the target data block belongs. The storage system then performs similar compression on the target data block based on a reference block in the combined data block group.
