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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Neal Robert Christiansen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ping Xie, Redmond, WA (US);
Trevor Van Leeuwen, Redmond, WA (US);
Jack Allen Nichols, Bothell, WA (US);
Brian David Jones, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system to enable a user to generate copies of files at a client device and to cause a file hosting platform to generate backups of these copies in a cloud database without transferring file content data for these files between the client device and the cloud database. When a user copies a file from a first folder on a client device to a second folder on the client device, the system may determine that the file content data for this file is already present in the cloud database. Then, rather than uploading the file content data to the cloud database from the client device, the system may cause a file hosting platform to access the file content data directly from the cloud database to perform a file copy operation.