Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for reference tracking garbage collector
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Application No.: US16709479Application Date: 2019-12-10
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Publication No.: US10996884B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Mikhail Danilov , Nikita Gutsalov , Alexander Fedorov , Konstantin Buinov , Gregory Skripko
- Applicant: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Holland & Knight LLP
- Agent Brian J. Colandreo, Esq.; Mark H. Whittenberger, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and computer system for determining, by a computing device, that an object of a plurality of objects is an orphan. It may be determined that the object is older than a threshold age. A capacity occupied by the object may be reclaimed based upon, at least in part, determining that the object is an orphan and determining that the object is older than the threshold age.
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