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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2023
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Philip Shilane, Newtown, PA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A deduplicated storage system storing objects receives a search term. Storage includes metadata and segments into which the objects have been split and deduplicated. Metadata includes fingerprint sequences according to which the segments should be assembled. A partial match is found when a prefix of the term is found at an end of a segment or a suffix is found at a beginning of the segment. The partial matches are recorded and merged to form full matches. Each full match includes a first fingerprint of a first segment in which the prefix was found and a second fingerprint of a second segment in which the suffix was found. A check is made of whether a fingerprint and a next fingerprint from a first sequence of fingerprints associated with a first object have been recorded in the database. If so, the first object is reported as having the search term.