INCREMENTAL GARBAGE COLLECTION OF DATA IN A SECONDARY STORAGE

Patent №

US 8,028,009

Granted

2011-09-27

Filed 2008

Owner

DATA DOMAIN, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12268112

A method and apparatus for different embodiments of incremental garbage collection of data in a secondary storage. In one embodiment, a method comprises locating blocks of data in a log that are referenced and within a range at a tail of the log. The method also includes copying the blocks of data that are referenced and within the range to an unallocated segment of the log.

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.95
Knowledge representation0.49
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

DATA DOMAIN, INC.

assignment · 242010877

Assignors

PATTERSON, R. HUGO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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