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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Lyublena Antova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Florian Waas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatesh Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohamed Soliman, Foster City, CA (US);
Konstantinos Krikellas, San Mateo, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A request for a metadata object is received where the request includes an identifier. It is determined whether the metadata object is stored in a metadata cache, including by: selecting a sub-cache in the metadata cache based at least in part on the identifier and determining whether the metadata object is stored in that sub-cache. If it is determined the metadata object is not in the metadata cache, a request (in a format associated with the source) to obtain the metadata object is sent to a source with which the metadata object is associated. If the metadata object provided by the source is in a native format which is not the same as the common format, the metadata object is transformed from the native format into the common format. Access to the metadata object in the common format is provided.