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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:
Oct. 06, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Shuo Lv, Beijing, CN;

Wilson Hu, Beijing, CN;

Bean Zhao, Tianjin, CN;

Chao Han, Beijing, CN;

Eileen Gu, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/30 (2019.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 16/119 (2019.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a storage management method and device. The method comprises: obtaining an attribute and access information of a file stored in storage at a first level in a hierarchical storage system, the attribute of the file indicating a size of the file, and the access information indicating an access frequency of the file; determining necessity of migrating the file based on the attribute of the file and the access information; and in response to the necessity exceeding a predetermined threshold, migrating the file to storage at a second level in the hierarchical storage system, the second level being different from the first level. Embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a corresponding device.


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