System and method for nearly in-band search indexing
US7720889B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 31, 2006 |
| Grant date | May 18, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 17, 2027 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/13
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for nearly in-band search indexing. A network switch (or other intermediate network device) is configured to provide port mirroring so that data access requests directed to a storage system are forwarded to both the storage system and to a search appliance. The search appliance collects index information from the received data access requests to update a search index. As the search appliance is nearly in-band, i.e., not directly in-line of the data access request path, no increase of latency occurs for processing data access requests by the storage system.
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