Mapping storage across storage providers

US11210270B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Peng Li · Beijing, CN
• Raghunath Ramakrishnan · Madison, US
• Baskar Sridharan · Sammamish, US
• Christopher William Douglas · Ferndale, US
• Virajith Jalaparti · Milpitas, US
• Sriram Rao · Sunnyvale, US
• Sri Sai Kameswara Pavan Kumar Kasturi · Redmond, US
• Karthick Krishnamoorthy · Sammamish, US
• Chakrapani Bhat Talapady · Redmond, US
• Krishna Pradeep Reddy Tamma · Bothell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2017
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2021
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/1097
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system that maps files into multiple parts and initiates storage of each part within a respective storage provider. The mapping facilitates this by correlating each of the multiple parts to a corresponding storage provider which may be different than the storage provider that stores a different part of the same file. The system then initiates storage of the multiple parts of the file in each of their corresponding storage provider in accordance with the mapping, and using a storage-provider-facing API. Similarly, retrieval and/or editing of a partial file may be accomplished by referencing the mapping, and using the same API issued to the appropriate storage provider. Each storage provider is capable of interfacing with the system using this same API.