Patent ID: 11971785
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. The non-transitory storage medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving a lock request concerning the cloud object;
determining whether the cloud object is locked or not locked;
when the cloud object is determined to not be locked, locking the cloud object according to a duration of a segment of the cloud object that has a shortest duration of all segments of the cloud object, and updating metadata of the cloud object and metadata of the segments; and
when the cloud object is determined to be locked, determining whether a new lock duration specified in the lock request is more or less than a current lock duration of the cloud object and, either:
when the new lock duration is greater than the current lock duration, updating metadata of the segments and updating a lock count of the cloud object, but not updating an expiry date of the cloud object; or
when the new lock duration is less than the current lock duration, updating only lock counts for the cloud object and for the segments.