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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:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Teng Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 17/30153 (2013.01); G06F 17/30221 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for transferring data from a source tier to a target tier. In some embodiments, this may include dividing an object stored in the source tier into a plurality of segments, determining if the target tier is missing at least one of the segments, writing the missing segments to the target tier, and deleting the object from the source tier. In some embodiments, the object's metadata is updated to indicate that the object is in the target tier.