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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
May. 20, 2019
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sundeep Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and computing devices that manages deletion of data objects by utilizing cold storage includes identifying unreferenced data objects within a set of identified data objects in a storage device. The identified unreferenced data objects are moved from an active tier portion of the storage device to a cold tier portion of the storage devices. The moved unreferenced data objects in the cold tier portion of the storage device manage based on a lifecycle policy.