EMC IP Holding/Dell Assigned Two Patents

DNA-based data center with deduplication capability
EMC IP Holding Company, LLC (Dell Technologies, Inc.), Hopkinton, MA, has been assigned a patent (11,106,633) developed by Sagi, Omer, Rehovot, Israel, Gefen, Avitan, Lehavim, Israel, and Taig, Ran, Beer Sheva, Israel, for a “DNA-based data center with deduplication capability.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A DNA storage system for binary digital data. The digital data is deduplicated is encoded into a format for representation in DNA, and DNA representing the data is synthesized and stored in pools in a primary library, a hash library and a data library. The primary library stores DNA for accessing a hash object in the hash library corresponding to a hash of the data, and the hash library stores DNA for accessing a data object in the data library that contains the data. The information in the libraries includes information identifying objects, including keys, unique identifiers, UIDs, pool identifiers, and primers.”

The patent application was filed on April 24, 2018 (15/960,945).

Automatic identification, definition and management of data for DNA storage
EMC IP Holding Company, LLC (Dell Technologies, Inc.), Hopkinton, MA, has been assigned a patent (10,963,469) developed by Taig, Ran, Beer Sheva, Israel, Gefen, Avitan, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Sagi, Omer, Mazkeret Batya, Israel, for “automatic identification, definition and management of data for DNA storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments include facilitating DNA storage of digital data including a plurality of data assets in a network by building a causal graph of the network and the relationship of the data assets, computing a value of each data asset, computing, using the causal graph and data values, a radius of recovery for each data asset, classifying each data asset as appropriate DNA stored by assigning a numerical ranking of each data asset, defining manual constraints and a DNA storage configuration, and generating a ranked list of recommended data assets for storing in the DNA storage using the classification, manual constraints and DNA storage configuration.”

The patent application was filed on January 21, 2018 (15/876,188).