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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:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 18, 2005
Applicants:

Akhil Kaushik, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Subramanian Periyagaram, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jian Xing, Antioch, CA (US);

Rangarajan Suryanarayanan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Akhil Kaushik, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Subramanian Periyagaram, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jian Xing, Antioch, CA (US);

Rangarajan Suryanarayanan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30386 (2013.01);
Abstract

Searching data is disclosed. A searchable index is used to determine which, if any, data objects comprising a set of backup data are responsive to a search query. For the search query, a search result is generated. The search result includes, in the event a first data object that is responsive to the search query comprises a version of one or more other data objects that are responsive to the search query, data indicating that the first data object comprises a version of said one or more other data objects.


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