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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jason R. Thorpe, San Francisco, CA (US);
William R. Stouder-Studenmund, Bonita, CA (US);
Abstract
This application sets forth techniques for browsing and accessing files stored by a storage solution. The technique includes the steps of (1) prior to receiving a command to open a file, operating in a user space and engaging a first pathway by (a) instantiating, by an application, a preview application; (b) constructing a file path associated with the file stored in the volume; (c) providing the file path to the preview application; (d) generating, by the preview application, preview data of the file; and (e) receiving, by the preview application, a request to open the file; and (2) in response to receiving the request to open the file, engaging a second pathway to retrieve the file from the volume by: (a) generating, by the preview application, a system call to open the file; and (b) transmitting the system call to a kernel process executing within a kernel space.