Patent ID: 9280551
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for deploying de-duplication, the computer program product comprising a computer readable program storage device having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to: divide files corresponding to an address space into multiple containers; perform a file metadata scan, including obtaining attributes for files in each container; aggregate the file attributes into characterizations for each attribute dimension and generate a content feature summary for each container based on a selection window and a signature list, wherein the content feature summary incorporates the characterizations and summarizes the signature list, wherein generating the content feature summary comprises program code to compute one or more discrete file summaries, and wherein computing a discrete file summary comprises program code to: measure a content similarity prediction measurement between containers from the generated content feature summary; and assign files from each container to a de-duplication domain based on the computed content similarity prediction measurement.