Handling data that has become inactive within stream aware data storage equipment
US10289566B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 28, 2017 |
| Grant date | May 14, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 28, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A technique involves, from an incoming flow of data that includes a first stream from a first source and another stream from another source, placing data of the first stream into first storage segments and data of the other stream into other storage segments that are different from the first storage segments. The technique further involves, while some of the data of the first stream becomes invalidated over time and while a garbage collection service consolidates remaining valid data of the first stream together within the first segments, tracking the number of times the remaining valid data of the first stream is consolidated together within the first segments by the garbage collection service. The technique further involves comingling (i) remaining valid data of the first stream which has been consolidated together a predefined number of times within the first segments with (ii) the data of the other stream.
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