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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2018
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Jean-Pierre Bono, Westborough, MA (US);
Sudhir Srinivasan, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/06 (2013.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01); G06F 16/113 (2019.01); G06F 16/116 (2019.01); G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 16/183 (2019.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for managing cloud storage provides a unified framework that supports both block-type data, such as LUNs (Logical UNits) and volumes, and file-type data, such as files, and expresses both types of data in the form of objects, which form a common base for both types of data. The framework includes a single API (application program interface) for managing storage and retrieval of block-derived objects and file-derived objects from the cloud, e.g., from a cloud-based data store.