Establishing Parse Scope
AssigneeQuantum Corporation
InventorsJeffrey Vincent TOFANO, Shawn Hall
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Abstract
Example apparatus, methods, and computers control establishing a shared parse scope between two computers that intend to be involved in a shared de-duplication action. One example method includes, upon determining that a first de-duplication logic and a second de-duplication logic are to participate in a shared de-duplication action for an object, controlling the first de-duplication logic to establish a shared parse scope with the second de-duplication logic. Establishing the shared parse scope may include negotiations between the computers, where the negotiations transfer dialect information. The dialect information may take the form of rules. The method may also include persisting the shared parse scope.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory;
- and
- an interface to connect the processor, the memory, and a set of logics, the set of logics comprising:
- a parse scope logic configured to determine a set of de-duplication rules shared between the apparatus and a second, different apparatus, where the apparatus and the second apparatus are both part of a de-duplication environment in which an object is to be de-duplicated, where the parse scope logic is configured to determine the set of de-duplication rules by transmitting de-duplication rule data to the second apparatus and by receiving de-duplication rule data from the second apparatus;
- and
- a de-duplication logic configured to de-duplicate the object as controlled by the set of shared de-duplication rules.
A computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer control the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
- upon determining that a first de-duplication logic and a second de-duplication logic are to participate in a shared de-duplication action for an object,
- controlling the first de-duplication logic to establish a shared parse scope with the second de-duplication logic, by controlling the first de-duplication logic to provide dialect data to the second de-duplication logic, the dialect data comprising one or more of, a rule, a hash of a rule, a rule identifier, a plurality of rules, a hash of the plurality of rules, and a plurality of rule identifiers;
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- persisting the shared parse scope.
A computer, comprising:
- a first component configured to negotiate a set of rules by which two de-duplication logics agree to be bound with respect to performing a de-duplication action on an object;
- a second component configured to perform the de-duplication action as controlled by the set of rules;
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- a third component configured to persist the set of rules to control future de-duplication actions associated with the object,
- where the set of rules include rules describing how a layered parser is to be configured, how an object is to be sub-divided, how an object is to be hashed, how an object is to be indexed, how an object is to be compressed, how an object is to be encrypted, and an acknowledgement of agreement on a de-duplication rule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.