US 12,032,857 B2
System and method for shallow copy
Ajaykrishna Raghavan, Santa Clara, CA (US); Anand Varma Chekuri, Durham, NC (US); and Roger Liao, St. Louis, MO (US)
Assigned to Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,783.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/282,094, filed on Nov. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0161505 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0659 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory includes programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
create a global region that is associated with a first bucket partition and a second bucket partition different from the first bucket partition;
provide, to the global region, region information of a source region in which a source object is stored, wherein the first bucket partition includes the source region;
create a destination region in which a destination object is stored, wherein the second bucket partition includes the destination region; and
provide, to the destination region, from the global region, the region information of the source region.