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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:
Apr. 05, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ao Sun, Shanghai, CN;

Lu Lei, Shanghai, CN;

Wesley Wei Sun, Shanghai, CN;

Gary Jialei Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Yu Teng, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 16/24573 (2019.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a device and a computer program product for data processing. The method comprises in response to data associated with an object being stored in the storage location, generating an entry indicating a first association relationship between the data and a storage location. The method further comprises generating metadata of the object, the metadata indicating a second association relationship between the object and the entry. Further, the method comprises in response to the first association relationship between the data and the storage location being changed, updating the entry independent of the metadata. Embodiments of the present disclosure may avoid the huge cost caused by changing metadata multiple times and reduce the system load and the impacts to the front end load.


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