Microsoft Assigned Three Patents

Storage input/output utilization
associated with a software application
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,527,238) developed by Matt Hollingsworth and John M. Oslake, Redmond, WA, for a “storage input/output utilization associated with a software application.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method includes determining a total storage input/output capacity of a set of storage elements available for use by a software application located on an OS volume of a computer system. The total storage input/output capacity is determined by evaluating storage input/output capacity of the storage elements at a physical device level and at a file level. The method includes measuring a number of input/output storage operations performed on behalf of the software application. The method also includes determining a storage input/output utilization of the software application based on the measured number of input/output storage operations as compared to the total storage input/output capacity of the set of storage elements.”

The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/242,710).

Compressed storage management
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,516,005) developed by six co-inventors for “a compressed storage management.”

The co-inventors are Cenk Ergan, Mehmet Iyigun, Bellevue, WA, Yevgeniy Bak, Redmond, WA, Benjamin A. Mickle, Bellevue, WA, Alexander Kirshenbaum, Redmond, WA, and Landy Wang, Kirkland, WA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Compressed storage management includes assigning a selection priority and a priority level to multiple data units stored in an uncompressed portion of a storage resource. The management can further include compressing data units and storing the compressed data units in a compressed portion of the storage resource. The data units in the compressed portion are stored in regions, which each store data units having the same selection priority or the same selection priority level.”

The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2011 (13/006,229).

Distributed decentralized storage and retrieval
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,549,095) developed by George M. Moore, Issaquah, WA, and Istvan Cseri, Redmond, WA, for a “distributed decentralized storage and retrieval.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for distributed, decentralized storage and retrieval of data in an extensible SOAP environment are disclosed. Such systems and methods decentralize not only the bandwidth required for storage and retrieval, but also the computational requirements. Accordingly, such systems and methods alleviate the need for one node to do all the storage and retrieval processing, and no single node is required to send or receive all the data.”

The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2011 (13/332,710).