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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. 13, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rajiv Desai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nathan E Rosenblum, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for deduplicating data on a distributed file system is discussed. Metadata requests are made to an object store to determine whether the store already contains a data object. If the object store does contain the data object, a commit request is sent to a metadata server. If the object store does not contain the data object, the data object is transmitted to the object store.


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