US Patent 11995055 Data management techniques using distributed policy agent

Techniques described herein relate to a method for distributed data management. The method may include making a first determination that data is written to a data structure of storage of a data host; obtaining, based on the first determination, data information associated with the data; making a second determination of intent corresponding to the data; generating a global name and metadata corresponding to the data, wherein the metadata comprises the intent; and publishing the global name and the metadata to a global name repository.