| CPC G06F 9/5072 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 11/3006 (2013.01); G06F 11/3438 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |

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1. A method, comprising:
receiving a data access history of one or more customers;
collecting, by a computing entity that comprises a data collector, information concerning respective data access patterns of the one or more customers based on the data access history;
deriving work window information based on the data access history;
using the information, and the work window information, to calculate, by a computing entity that comprises a data collection scheduler, a respective data retrieval frequency (DRF) for each of the customers, wherein the DRF for one of the customers is calculated using the formula:
DRF=Number of working hours×weighted data access frequency×weighted least recently accessed data×weighted data change frequency; and
enabling the customers to retrieve data according to their respective data retrieval frequency.
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