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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Burlington, CA;
Thomas Papadakis, Burlington, CA;
Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Burlington, CA;
Thomas Papadakis, Burlington, CA;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for tracking a plurality of objects being stored are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises concatenating at least a portion of the name of each object being stored into a hint; and storing the hint in an index. The portion of the name is the entire name, the first n characters, the last n characters, or every nth character, and this may be selected based on the application associated with the objects. Either the hint or the longest pathname containing the objects can be stored, and this may be selected based on the application.