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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2010
Gaurav Makkar, Bangalore, IN;
Sudhir Srinivasan, Acton, MA (US);
Ravi Kavuri, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Gaurav Makkar, Bangalore, IN;
Sudhir Srinivasan, Acton, MA (US);
Ravi Kavuri, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network storage server system includes a distributed object store and a metadata subsystem. The metadata subsystem stores metadata relating to the stored data objects and allows data objects to be located and retrieved easily via user-specified search queries. It manages and allows searches on at least three categories of metadata via the same user interface and technique. These categories include user-specified metadata, inferred metadata and system-defined metadata. Search queries for the metadata can include multi-predicate queries.