Controlling segment size distribution in hash-based deduplication

• Main Authors: KLEIN SHMUEL T, HIRSCH MICHAEL, TOAFF YAIR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.06.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Segment sizes are controlled by setting the size of a segment boundary in a hash-based deduplication system. A subsequence of size K of a sequence of characters S is set. An increasing sequence of n probabilities and a corresponding sequence of n decreasingly restrictive logical tests are chosen to...