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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2022
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Eyal Gordon, Tel Aviv, IL;
Oren Ashkenazi, Tel Aviv, IL;
VAST DATA LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A method for responding to a query, the method may include (a) receiving, by a storage system compute element, a query that comprises one or more conditions related to a content of at least one data unit (DU); (b) searching, based on the one or more conditions and on a condition fulfillment information (CFI), for one or more irrelevant groups of DUs to be skipped during the responding to the query; wherein the one or more irrelevant groups of DUs belong to multiple stored groups of DUs that are stored in the storage system; wherein an irrelevant group of DU does not comprise, according to the CFI, any DU that fulfills the one or more conditions; and (c) generating a response to the query based on an outcome of the searching.