Patent 11621857 was granted and assigned to Seagate Technology on April, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method includes importing an object into a first data storage device, obtaining static metadata relating to the object, and obtaining dynamic metadata relating to the importation of the object. The static metadata and the dynamic metadata are hashed to create a block hash for the object and the importation of the object. The imported object and the block hash are stored in the first data storage device.