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Policy engine to control the servicing of requests received by a storage server

US7778981B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 11, 2004
Grant dateAug 17, 2010
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Expiry dateMar 6, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2221/2141
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Certain tasks are outsourced from a filer to a remote policy engine. The policy engine implements various defined policies to control the filer's servicing of client requests. For example, the policy engine can be used to implement policies to control various storage-related operations relating to data managed by a filer, such as creation, deletion, modification, opening, closing, renaming and/or changing attributes of files or directories managed by the filer.

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