Patent ID: 11860820
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus for processing data through a storage system in a data pipeline, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
receiving, by the storage system, a dataset from a collector on a data producer, wherein the dataset is disaggregated from metadata for the dataset by the collector;
storing the dataset on the storage system;
receiving, by the storage system from a data indexer, a request for data from the dataset, wherein the request for the data comprises the metadata gathered by the collector on the data producer;
servicing, by the storage system, the request for the data by locating the data using the metadata gathered by the collector on the data producer and received in the request for the data; and
receiving, from the data indexer, indexed data indexed using the metadata gathered by the collector on the data producer.