US 12,417,015 B2
Removable media based object store
Roderick B. Wideman, Shackopee, MN (US); Turguy Goker, Oceanside, CA (US); and Suayb S. Arslan, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Quantum Corporation, Centennial, CO (US)
Filed by QUANTUM CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/138,016.
Application 18/138,016 is a continuation of application No. 17/341,229, filed on Jun. 7, 2021, granted, now 11,656,764.
Application 17/341,229 is a continuation of application No. 15/340,691, filed on Nov. 1, 2016, granted, now 11,042,299, issued on Jun. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/355,090, filed on Jun. 27, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0259278 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01); G06F 12/126 (2016.01)
CPC G06F 3/0607 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0682 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/213 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2212/314 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for implementing an object store using removable storage media, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a request to retrieve first data;
determining a first data object in which at least a portion of the first data is stored;
determining a removable storage medium on which the first data object is stored, the removable storage medium including a value store partition into which one or more data objects including at least the first data object are stored and a key store partition into which one or more keys identifying the one or more data objects are stored;
retrieving the first data object from the value store partition; and
retrieving the at least a portion of the first data from the first data object.