Patent ID: 9305007
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: identifying deduplication metadata for a plurality of files, wherein the deduplication metadata comprises block level information for the plurality of files; examining, by a first computer system, the deduplication metadata to discover a plurality of levels of relationships associated with the plurality of files based on at least the block level information; creating relationship data describing the plurality of levels of relationships, wherein the plurality of levels comprises a level describing relationships between users of host machines that are used to access respective files; and sending the relationship data describing the plurality of levels of relationships associated with the plurality of files to a second computer system providing a data loss protection service to cause a data loss protection operation to be performed based on the relationship data, wherein examining the deduplication metadata comprises identifying files that are pointing to a same data segment, identifying host machines that are used to access the files that point to the same data segments, and identifying respective users that are associated with the host machines that are accessing the files.