Three New De-Dupe Patents for Permabit

Permabit Technology Corporation has been awarded three new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

These new patents cover a broad range of data deduplication technologies.

The patents use U.S. Patent No. 7,685,096 covers technologies for rapidly storing and accessing file systems in a content-addressed deduplicating storage system. U.S. Patents No. 7,657,931 and 7,693,814 cover the use of deduplication for content detection, verification, and metadata annotation. For example, such a mechanism could be used for detecting computer viruses, or for gathering market research data.

With these, Permabit has a total of 19 patents covering diverse areas in data deduplication, protection and archive, with many more filings pending in similar areas. Permabit’s extensive storage patent portfolio includes the use of data fingerprints, hash-based deduplication for scalable file and object data storage, encrypted deduplication, snapshooting, and many other features of the company’s Scalable Data Reduction (SDR) technology which are the foundation of its Dedupe 2.0 solutions.

Permabit showed its patented technology at its booth at the SNW Spring 2010 conference.

"Innovation is the key to solving the data storage problems of tomorrow. At Permabit, we continue to focus on developing the next generation of deduplication technology that will allow companies to improve their ability to process information more efficiently at all levels of the data center. Because we maintain the flexibility of being a private company focused on innovation and solutions, we can shorten the development cycle and time to market by months, if not years, while retaining the intellectual property rights to the technology," said Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer, Permabit.