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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
John Russell Douceur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vinit Ogale, Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph Peter Raisanen, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Andrew Marks, Bothell, WA (US);
Balaji Krishnamachari-Sampath, Sammamish, WA (US);
Premika Mani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A naming service for a hierarchical namespace. The naming service includes a database system with a first table having first records. Each of the first records is for a hierarchical node and includes a node identifier and an ACL identifier to a set of access control rules applicable to the node. The database system includes a second table including second records, each record in the second records has one of the ACL identifiers from the first table correlated with a definition access control rules in the set of access control rules. The naming service includes an access control rule identifier generator configured to detect a set of access control rules for each node in the namespace and generate an a ACL identifier for each set of access control rules that can be stored in records in the first table and stored in records in the second table.