Symantec Assigned Patent

Symantec Corp., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,171,063) developed by Viswesvaran Janakiraman, San Jose, CA, and Bruce Robert Montague, Santa Cruz, CA, for a "system and method for efficiently locating and processing data on a deduplication storage system."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for efficiently locating and processing data on a deduplication storage system are provided. A logical volume is mapped to a deduplication storage area. The logical volume includes a collection of logical block locations and the deduplication storage area includes a collection of physical block locations. The collection of logical block locations is mapped to the collection of physical block locations. A filesystem organizes the logical volume by organizing the logical block locations into a collection of files. Reverse-mapping information is generated for a logical block location that associates the logical block location with at least one file. In response to receiving a logical block address of a logical block location, at least one file is returned."

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2009 (12/495,274).