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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:
Sep. 24, 2013

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2006
Applicants:

Samuel A. Fineberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kave Eshghi, Los Altos, CA (US);

Pankaj Mehra, San Jose, CA (US);

Mark D. Lillibridge, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Samuel A. Fineberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kave Eshghi, Los Altos, CA (US);

Pankaj Mehra, San Jose, CA (US);

Mark D. Lillibridge, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for routing a data object, comprising a sequence of data units, to a particular component data-storage system, or particular group of component data-storage systems, within a distributed, differential electronic-data storage system by selecting one or more subsequences of data units from the data object, computing a characteristic value from the selected subsequences, computing an index from the characteristic value; and directing the data object to the particular component data-storage system, or to the particular group component data-storage systems, identified by the computed index.


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