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Microsoft Assigned Patent

Storage media abstraction for uniform data storage

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,983,911) developed by Fortier, Dominique, Issaquah, WA, Maillet, Steven, Redmond, WA, and Aasheim, Jered, Bellevue, WA, for a “storage media abstraction for uniform data storage.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage abstraction system is described herein that exposes storage from an operating system as a uniform storage device and abstracts from applications the selection of a particular storage location and different properties of storage devices. The application provides the data to store and some information about the application’s goals for storing the data, and lets the operating system route the data to the right place based on the data’s characteristics. The operating system may choose to store data anywhere from L2 cache to a cloud-based storage service and anything in between, based on information about the data’s persistence requirements, expected usage, access frequency, security needs, and so forth. The system lets applications and users focus on expressing their goals and needs for the data, and lets the operating system manage the hardware.

The patent application was filed on June 20, 2011 (13/163,730).

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