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Citrix Assigned Patent

Redirecting local storage to cloud storage

Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (9,432,457) developed by Marano, Adam L., Parkland, FL, and Laborczfalvi, Lee, Freiburg, Germany, for a “redirecting local storage to cloud storage.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One embodiment is directed to a method of providing access to cloud storage performed by a mobile computing device. The method includes, (a) receiving a file-level access command to perform a file-level operation on a file of filesystem storage of the mobile computing device, the filesystem storage including remote storage provided by a remote storage platform and locally-cached storage provided by local storage, (b) evaluating whether the file-level access command is directed to a pre-determined portion of the filesystem provided by the remote storage platform, (c) in response to evaluating, if the file-level access command is directed to the pre-determined portion, then performing a synchronization operation to ensure that the file is stored on local storage in synchronization with the remote storage platform, and, (d) fulfilling the file-level access command by accessing the local storage once the file is stored on local storage in synchronization with the remote storage platform.

The patent application was filed on August 30, 2013 (14/015,227).

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