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Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Robert L. Fair, Cary, NC (US);

Samuel Mullis, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/125 (2019.01); G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for a method for implementing a mutual-exclusion semantic for target update, the method comprising: receiving a tagset update request for a tagset associated with an object, the tagset update request comprising one or more metadata tags to be updated; determining whether updating the tagset based on the received tagset update request would cause a value of any existing metadata tag in the tagset to change; and in response to determining that updating the tagset based on the received tagset update request would cause a value of at least one existing metadata tag in the tagset to change, rejecting the tagset update request.


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Fair, Robert. (2021). Set-based mutual exclusion using object metadata tags in a storage appliance (U.S. Patent No. 11010332). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11010332

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