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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Lyublena Antova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Florian Waas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatesh Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohamed Soliman, San Mateo, CA (US);
Konstantinos Krikellas, San Mateo, CA (US);
Lyublena Antova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Florian Waas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatesh Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohamed Soliman, San Mateo, CA (US);
Konstantinos Krikellas, San Mateo, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A request for a metadata object is received. It is determined whether the metadata object is stored in a metadata cache. In the event the metadata object is not stored in the metadata cache, a request to obtain the metadata object is sent to a source with which the metadata object is associated in a format associated with the source. The metadata object is transformed from a native format of the source into a common format if the metadata object as provided by the source is in a native format that is not the same as the common format. Access to the metadata object in the common format is provided.