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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Anurag S. Maunder, Fremont, CA (US);
Christos Tryfonas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Muddu Sudhakar, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anurag S. Maunder, Fremont, CA (US);
Christos Tryfonas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Muddu Sudhakar, Milpitas, CA (US);
EMC CORPORATION, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for facilitating data discovery on a network, wherein the network has one or more data storage devices. The system may include a crawler program configured to select at least a first set of files and a second set of files, each of the first set of files and the second set of files being stored in at least one of the one or more data storage devices. The system may also include a data fetcher program configured to obtain a copy of the first set of files, the data fetcher program being further configured to resist against obtaining a copy of the second set of files. The system may also include circuit hardware implementing one or more functions of one or more of the crawler program and the data fetcher program.