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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
May. 24, 2005
Applicants:
Ming Benjamin Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kai LI, Princeton, NJ (US);
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ming Benjamin Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Kai Li, Princeton, NJ (US);
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Data Domain, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for storing data comprising is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of data segments wherein each data segment is associated with an identifier. The method further determining using a subset of identifiers that are stored in a low latency memory whether a data segments has been previously stored and returning the identifier for the data segment in the event the data segment is determined to have been stored previously.