Patent ID: 8140602
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for storing data comprising: a data manager for receiving data to be stored in a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) storage system; an object manager for handling objects in which the received data is stored, the object manager configured to create a first object and associate a protection level with the first object, a protection manager configured to determine whether the received data is to be added to the first object, and to determine the protection level of the first object, wherein the protection manager rejects the data unless the protection manager determines that the data is to be added to the first object, in which case the protection manager adds the data to the first object; and a data structure manager configured to maintain a data structure and a WORM log in the storage system, wherein the data structure manager maintains a WORM index of the data structure in the storage system by: