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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexander Burba, Seattle, WA (US);
Brandon Hunt, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Gallop, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott Rosemund, Issaquah, WA (US);
Frank R. Morrison, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark J. McNulty, Renton, WA (US);
Nima Ganjeh, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Obligatorily-acquired digital content items are stored under service control in one or more local storage machines of a computer based on service commands provided by a centralized management service; and voluntarily-acquired digital content items are stored under user control in the one or more local storage machines of the computer based on user commands. The obligatorily-acquired digital content items are protected from user-commanded deletion. The obligatorily-acquired digital content items are deleted from the one or more local storage machines based on service commands provided by the centralized management service. However, the voluntarily-acquired digital content items are deleted from the one or more local storage machines based on user commands.