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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:
Jun. 28, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Lu Lei, Shanghai, CN;

Chen Wang, Shanghai, CN;

Gary Jialei Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Ronnie Yu Cai, Shanghai, CN;

Ao Sun, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for storing data. The method comprises: generating a data block corresponding to data to be stored; aligning the data block to a boundary of a tracking unit of a predefined size for validating the data; and storing the aligned data block in at least one storage unit of a storage space, the at least one storage unit having an identical size. The method according to embodiments of the present disclosure can align the data block so as to minimize the waste of storage space and avoid the situation where the rest data cannot be validated due to disappearance of partial data.


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