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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Thomas Dubucq, Chicago, IL (US);
Gregory R. Dhuse, Chicago, IL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing indexes in a dispersed storage network (dsNet) are provided. The method accesses a work queue containing a set of work items as a set of key-value pairs. The key-value pairs are tuples including a work identifier and a work lease timestamp. The method selects a first work identifier and a first lease timestamp for a new work. The set of work items and the new work item are ordered according to a priority scheme to generate a modified work queue. Based on the modified work queue, the method transmits a work request to a plurality of data source units. The work request including a hash parameter and a bit parameter. The hash parameter is associated with a key-value pair of the modified work queue. The bit parameter indicates a number of bits of the hash parameter to consider.