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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Gavin John Sherry, San Mateo, CA (US);
Caleb E. Welton, Foster City, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30312 (2013.01); G06F 17/30038 (2013.01);
Abstract
A specified data type and pre-storage operation are receive. In response, an association between the two is created in storage metadata. After the association is created, data to be stored is received where the data has a data type. In response to receiving the data, the storage metadata, including the association, is accessed and it is determined if the data type of the data is the same as the specified one. If so, the specified pre-storage operation is automatically performed on the data in order to obtain an output and the output is stored.