Patent ID: 11934367
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method performed by a management server for performing data management and de-duplication at a storage server, wherein the method comprises:
detecting, by a listener application of the management server, that a request to add a new column of data to the storage server has been received;
determining, by a scanner application of the management server, using a storage index including metadata describing a plurality of tables stored at the storage server, whether the new column of data is a duplicate of a column of data already stored at the storage server by comparing metadata describing the new column and metadata describing a plurality of tables stored at the storage server, wherein the metadata describing the new column indicates a sender of the request to add the new column and a column name of the new column, and wherein the metadata describing the tables indicates a column name for each column in each of the tables;
in response to the new column of data not being the duplicate of the column of data already stored at the storage server:
transmitting, to the storage server using a server-to-storage application program interface, the new column of data, to instruct the storage server to store the new column of data; and
storing, in the storage index in a memory of the management server, the metadata describing the new column of data; and

in response to the new column of data being the duplicate of the column of data already stored in the storage server, transmitting, by an interceptor application of the management server, using a server-to-user equipment (UE) application programming interface, an indication to a UE that the new column of data is already stored at the storage server, prompting a user of the UE to perform an action to prevent the new column of data from being stored at the storage server.