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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1004 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 11/08 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 11/1446 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein relate to testing the integrity of a storage system's metadata while corresponding structured data remains online. Embodiments also relate to enabling corrupt storage system metadata to be repaired while the metadata remains in use and while its structured data remains online. Corruption detection and repair is described with respect to allocation metadata and reference count metadata. The embodiments are applicable to many types of storage systems, including file systems and databases, for example.