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FIG. 11 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method 1100 for generating and transmitting a token directive in accordance with the present invention. The method 1100 begins 1102 and the token directive generation module 1002 generates 1104 a storage request with a token directive, where the token directive includes a request to store a data segment token on the storage device 150. The token directive transmission module 1004 transmits 1106 the token directive to the storage device 150 and the method 1100 ends 1108. In one embodiment, the storage request includes a token directive to store the data segment token where the storage request is essentially free from data of the data segment. In another embodiment, storage request includes data from the data segment. In a preferred embodiment, a software application creates a storage request using the token directive so as to avoid the creation of the data segment. In another embodiment, a software application requests the creation of the token directive.

Added by DJM 3 2021