Patent ID: 11874801
Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 6, wherein deduplicating comprises:
checking the plurality of replicated bloom filters for a bloom filter match for the determined signature; and
when a match for the determined signature is found in a bloom filter of the plurality of replicated bloom filters stored on the upper-layer server:
sending the piece of data for storage at the block server where the match is found in the bloom filter of the plurality of replicated bloom filters stored in the one upper-layer server;
verifying, at the block server, whether an actual match of the piece of data is present, deduplicating the piece of data when an actual match is found, and storing the piece of data when an actual match is not found.