Patent 12086473 was granted and assigned to Pure Storage on September, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Copying data using references to the data, including: receiving a request to write the source data to a target volume, wherein the request to write the source data indicates the reference information; obtaining a metadata representation of the source data using the reference information; an copying, using the reference information, the metadata representation of the source data to the target volume.