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In another embodiment, where the requesting client 114 requires the data segment, the apparatus includes a data segment regeneration module 1014 that reconstitutes data of the data segment using information contained in the message. In this case, the response sent to the requesting client includes the reconstituted data segment. In another embodiment, the response sent to the requesting client includes information contained in the message received from the storage device 150. The requesting client 114 may then reconstitute the data segment or use the information in some other way. In another embodiment, the message includes the data segment token. The data segment token may be used by the data segment regeneration module 1014 to reconstitute the data segment before forwarding to the requesting client 114 or the requesting client response module 1012 may simply forward the data segment token.

Added by DJM 3 2021