Patent ID: 11966598
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A device, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory having instructions stored therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the device to execute operations, comprising:
receiving a flush cycle for flushing expired events in the storage system, wherein a storage system comprises multiple events in a data stream;
determining, based on the flush cycle, a time slice that comprises an amount of time, wherein a slice index node is configured to store indications of events that occur during a time period indicated by the time slice within an index of the storage system;
creating the slice index node for the time slice in response to determining that a first occurrence time of a first event of the events that enters the storage system in the data stream is within the time slice, wherein the slice index node comprises a first index node of the first event in the storage system;
adding the slice index node to the index of the storage system;
storing the indications of the events that occur during the time period indicated by the time slice within the slice index node.