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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:
Aug. 11, 2009

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2004
Applicants:

R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Allan Bricker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Richard Johnsson, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Allan Bricker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Richard Johnsson, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Data Domain, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for storing composite data streams. According to one embodiment of the invention, a composite data stream is stored so that it may be restored. The storing of the composite data stream includes decomposing the composite data stream into a plurality of constituent data streams, segmenting at least one of the plurality of constituent data streams, and discarding those of the segments resulting from the segmenting which are determined to have been stored previously.


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