MANAGING STORAGE OF INDIVIDUALLY ACCESSIBLE DATA UNITS

MANAGING STORAGE OF INDIVIDUALLY ACCESSIBLE DATA UNITS

A method for managing data includes receiving individually accessible data units, each identified by a key value; storing a plurality of blocks of data, each of at least some of the blocks being generated by combining a plurality of the data units; and providing an index that includes an entry for e...

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Hauptverfasser: BAY, Paul, ISMAN, Marshall A, RICHARDSON, John L, BROMLEY, H. Mark, VISHNIAC, Ephraim Meriwether
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:A method for managing data includes receiving individually accessible data units, each identified by a key value; storing a plurality of blocks of data, each of at least some of the blocks being generated by combining a plurality of the data units; and providing an index that includes an entry for each of the blocks. One or more of the entries enable location, based on a provided key value, of a block that includes data units corresponding to a range of key values that includes the provided key value.