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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Peter W. Madany, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Allen B. Hubbe, Milford, MA (US);
Navaneeth Ranganna, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Suvidya S. Daftardar, Marlborough, MA (US);
Oluwasoga T. Oni, Brighton, MA (US);
Daniel S. Collins, Princeton, MA (US);
Umer Toor, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Edward C. Bueche, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Sunita Casula, San Ramon, CA (US);
Christopher Stacey, Cristchurch, NZ;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of searching shared files stored on a general purpose shared storage includes receiving a search term in a native search interface of an operating system on a computing device; and performing, on the computing device, a search based on the search term including accessing a search functionality of the general purpose shared storage, wherein the search functionality uses indexes of the shared files stored on the shared storage and updates the indexes of the shared files in response to update events generated from the shared files. In one embodiment, the method performs a federated search based on the search term.