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FIG. 14 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method 1400 for storing a data segment token in accordance with the present invention. The method 1400 begins 1402 and the write request receiver module 1302 receives 1404 a storage request from the requesting device 1326, where the storage request includes a request to store a data segment in the storage device 150. The data segment includes a series of repeated, identical characters or character strings. The data segment token storage module 1304 stores 1406 a data segment token in the storage device 150 and the method 1400 ends 1408. The data segment token includes at least a data segment identifier and a data segment length and the data segment token does not include data from the data segment for the most part.

Added by DJM 3 2021