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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Shuang Liang, Los Altos, CA (US);

Bhimsen Bhanjois, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 16/164 (2019.01); G06F 16/1752 (2019.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method for storing backup data includes receiving, by a computing system, data associated with a file to be backed up; performing, by the computing system, de-duplication on the file to remove duplicated data and to generate unique backup data; receiving, by the computing system, a file handle based on opening a block-based storage file; storing, by the computing system, a metadata container in the block-based storage file stripe aligned; and storing, by the computing system, a data container in the block-based storage file stripe aligned, wherein the metadata container and the data container are associated with a set of objects, and wherein the data container includes the unique backup data.


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