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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:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Vivek Bajpai, Dekalb, IL (US);

Thomas Dubucq, Chicago, IL (US);

Kevin Michael Freese, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes: obtaining, by a computing device, a first work item from a first index, wherein the first work item represents a namespace of a bucket of a vault in a dispersed storage network; dividing, by the computing device, the namespace into plural ranges of names; creating, by the computing device, plural second work items, each respective one of the plural second work items including a respective one of the plural ranges of names; and adding, by the computing device, each of the plural second work items to a second index.


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