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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard Paul Testardi, Boulder, CO (US);
Andrea D'Amato, Kirkland, WA (US);
Devidas Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohit Kumar Garg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sebastien Charles, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Gautam Gopinadhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Wade Wolfe, Fulshear, TX (US);
John Renaud, Magnolia, TX (US);
Ernie Pistor, Brookline, NH (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Transportable storage devices are communicatively coupled behind one or more dedicated 'edge' data servers to take advantage of the benefits of the data servers and transportable storage devices while limiting their disadvantages. Each edge data server ingests data from one or more client devices and copies the data to one or more of the transportable storage devices for eventual transport to a cloud data center for upload to a cloud storage system. Object identifiers of objects stored on the transportable storage devices are maintained in a namespace of the data servers after decoupling of the transportable storage devices from the data servers so that the object identifiers remain visible to client devices.