APPLYING A MINIMUM SIZE BOUND ON CONTENT DEFINED SEGMENTATION OF DATA

Applying a content defined minimum size bound on blocks produced by content defined segmentation of data by calculating the size of the interval of data between a newly found candidate segmenting position and a last candidate segmenting position of same or higher hierarchy level, and then discarding the newly found candidate segmenting position if a size of an interval of data is lower than the minimum size bound, or retaining the newly found candidate segmenting position if the size of the interval of data is not lower than the minimum size bound or if there is no last candidate segmenting position of a same or higher hierarchy level as the newly found candidate segmenting position. When a last candidate segmenting position of a same or higher hierarchy level becomes available, the evaluation is reiterated to converge edge segmenting positions of the outputs of consecutive calculation units.