Netapp, Inc.

Apple Inc.

Network Appliance, Inc.

Benjamin T H Cox

Daniel S Nydick

Peter Frank Corbett

Michael Kazar

Michael Robin Eisler

Richard N Sanzi, Jr

David Noveck

John Russell Boyles

Antoine R Raux

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving an utterance including a user request, determining a natural language representation of the user request, determining a first software process associated with the natural language representation, determining whether the natural language representation can be executed by a task flow of the first software process, and in accordance with a determination that the natural language representation cannot be executed by the task flow of the first software process: determining a set of transformation instructions, determining a revised natural language representation using the set of transformation instructions, and providing the revised natural language representation to a second software process.

Reform input in flow execution

A system and method integrates a persistent reply cache with operation of a file system executing on a storage system. In an illustrative embodiment, the persistent reply cache is embodied as a file comprising a combination of contents of (i) one or more enhanced non-volatile log records of non-volatile electronic storage, (ii) 'dirty' in-core buffer cache data structures, and (iii) on-disk data structures corresponding to those dirty buffer cache data structures. Integration is achieved through atomic operation of the reply cache with the file system to store information associated with a reply, e.g., to a client request, on electronic storage implemented as in-core buffer cache memory of the storage system, as well as on magnetic storage implemented as disks of the system.

Persistent reply cache integrated with file system

A system and method for limiting access using file-level protocol rule sets. A rule set, comprising of an ordered set of rules, is associated with a virtual file system (VFS). When a data access request is received, the network address of the client originating the data access request is utilized to select a matching rule from the rule set for use in determining access to the VFS. The selected rule is then processed to determine if the data access request is permitted.

System and method for implementing access controls using file protocol rule sets

A system and method for authenticating an unauthenticated file level protocol using a sidecar authentication mechanism. A client transmits an authentication ticket, UID and list of network addresses to an authentication daemon of a storage system. The authentication daemon verifies the user identity and generates a file system credential that is stored in a cache indexed by an authentication tuple. Received data access operations from a client are compared to authentication tuples by UID and network address and the file system utilizes the stored credential for processing the data access operation.

System and method for a sidecar authentication mechanism

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Benjamin T H Cox