Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11936404) developed by Vaknin, Yogev, Berger, Alon, Khazon, Itay, and Yahalom, Or, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “data aware compression in a storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for storage system data aware compression, the method may include pre-compressing data units received by the storage system, by different pre-compression units to provide different pre-compressed versions of the data units, wherein the different pre-compression schemes are associated with different compression schemes, wherein at least some of the different compression schemes are data type specific compression schemes, calculating entropies of the different pre-compressed versions, and selecting a compression scheme out of the different compression schemes based on the entropies of the different pre-compressed versions.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-04-28 (17/661264).