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FIG. 15 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method 1500 for reading a data segment token in accordance with the present invention. The method 1500 begins 1502 and the read request receiver module 1308 receives 1504 a storage request to read a data segment from the storage device 150. The data segment is represented on the storage device 150 by a data segment token and the data segment includes a series of repeated, identical characters or character strings. 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. The read data segment token module 1310 reads 1506 the data segment token corresponding to the data segment requested in the storage request, the read request response module 1312 transmits 1508 a response to the requesting storage device 150 and the method 1500 ends 1510. The response is generated using the data segment token corresponds to the requested data segment.

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