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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:
Nov. 24, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mihail Corneliu Constantinescu, San Jose, CA (US);

Abdullah Gharaibeh, Vancouver, CA;

Maohua Lu, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 17/30162 (2013.01); G06F 17/30312 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and computer program product for providing a scalable representation of metadata for deduplicated storage systems. The method includes identifying shared data segments that are contained in a plurality of data objects in a deduplicated storage system. A data object centric graph is generated. The generating includes creating vertices that represent the data objects and creating edges between the data objects. An edge connecting two data objects indicates that the two data objects contain at least one shared data segment in common. Each shared data segment between any two data objects is represented by at most one of the edges. At least one of the data objects is manipulated based on the data object centric graph.


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