Storage virtualization for directories

US10802764B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Neal R. Christiansen · Bellevue, US
• Ravisankar V. Pudipeddi · Sammamish, US
• Scott Brender · Kirkland, US
• Sarosh C. Havewala · Kirkland, US
• Ping Xie · Needham, US
• Craig Ashley Barkhouse · Duvall, US
• Lei Shi · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 21, 2017
• Grant date: Oct 13, 2020
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Storage virtualization techniques allow directories to be stored remotely, for example, by a cloud storage provider, but in a manner that appears to a user or application running on a local computing device as if the directories are stored locally—even though the data of those directories may not be resident on the local computing device. That is, the contents of directories that may exist in the cloud look and behave as if they were stored locally on a computing device.