Patent ID: 11893422
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the request to perform the file system operation comprises incoming data for a file, and the method further comprises:
segmenting, by the particular front-end, the data into a plurality of segments corresponding to the lower-level of segments in the segment trees;
representing each of one or more subsets of the lower-level of segments by one or more respective higher-level segments, each of the one or more higher-level segments being associated with one or more respective similarity groups; and
sending each of the one or more higher-level segments, including the one or more subsets of the lower-level segments, to one or more back-ends according to the similarity group assignments.