OBJECT STORAGE

• US 20100145995A1
• Filed: 01/29/2010
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tahoe Research Limited (f/k/a Learndale Limited) (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Dancil C. Strickland, Donald F. Cameron
• Inventors: Strickland, Dancil C., Cameron, Donald F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,626,793 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0623 in relation to content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0652 Erasing, e.g. deleting, data cleaning, moving of data to a wastebasket
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method is provided that may include determining, at least in part, by a device comprised, at least in part, in storage, whether to request that the storage perform, at least in part, at least one operation. The at least one operation may involve, at least in part, at least one object stored in the storage. The determining may be based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the at least one object. The metadata may be stored in the storage, and may indicate an earliest permitted deletion time for the at least one object and/or a latest permitted access time for the at least one object. Of course, many modifications, variations, and alternatives are possible without departing from this embodiment.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, at least in part, by a device comprised, at least in part, in storage, whether to request that the storage perform, at least in part, at least one operation, the at least one operation involving, at least in part, at least one object stored in the storage, the determining being based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the at least one object, the metadata being stored in the storage, the metadata indicating an earliest permitted deletion time for the at least one object and/or a latest permitted access time for the at least one object.