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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
May. 06, 2002
Peter Mattis, Belmont, CA (US);
John Plevyak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Haines, Laramie, WY (US);
Adam Beguelin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Brian Totty, Foster City, CA (US);
David Gourley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter Mattis, Belmont, CA (US);
John Plevyak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Haines, Laramie, WY (US);
Adam Beguelin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Brian Totty, Foster City, CA (US);
David Gourley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
The foregoing needs and other needs are addressed by the present invention, which provides, in one aspect, a mechanism for locating a data object. According to an aspect of the present invention, key values for data objects are generated, each key value may contain a first subkey value and a second subkey value. A mapping associates the first subkey values with storage locations. A particular first subkey value is mapped to storage location that contains second subkeys of a set of key values that correspond to the first subkey value. The storage location also includes additional information that may be used to locate objects associated with the set of key values.