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A method of the present invention is also presented for managing data. The method in the disclosed embodiments substantially includes the steps necessary to carry out the functions presented above with respect to the operation of the described apparatus and system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a storage request from a requesting device. The storage request includes a request to store a data segment in a storage device. The data segment includes a series of repeated, identical characters or a series of repeated, identical character strings. The method also includes storing a data segment token in the storage device. The data segment token includes a data segment identifier and a data segment length. The data segment token is substantially free of data from the data segment.

Added by DJM 3 2021