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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:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Satish Visvanathan, San Jose, CA (US);

Yamini Allu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rahul B. Ugale, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/0897 (2016.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0897 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to some embodiment, a backup storage system determines whether one or more data segments associated with a file object have been updated, where the data segment(s) are stored in a first segment level in a multi-level hierarchy. For each updated data segment, the system applies a reference-based hierarchical data structure to track metadata associated with the updated data segment, where the metadata is stored in a second segment level in the multi-level hierarchy. The system determines whether the reference-based hierarchical data structure has reached a specific size. The system writes the metadata associated with the updated data segment(s) to a solid state device (SSD) operating as a memory cache device responsive to determining that the reference-based hierarchical data structure has reached the specific size.


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