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Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ruifang Ge, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Rahul Narayan Iyer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jiakai Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Union City, CA (US);

Dylan Nugent, Chicago, IL (US);

Anshuman Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Karthik Ranganathan, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30117 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed techniques provide systems and methods for deletion of end-user messages, message threads, attachments, and/or other message information. More specifically, a key-value store residing in computer memory on the storage system is described. Each value in the key-value store is indexed by a key and structured to include multiple column portions associated with multiple column families. In one embodiment, a deletion column family having an associated retention policy for data stored therein is defined.


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