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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
May. 06, 2024
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph Richey, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Halcrow, Redmond, WA (US);
Sergey Karamov, Redmond, WA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A cloud implementation of a persisted storage device, such as a disk, is provided. The implementation supports a variety of features and protocols, in full analogy with a physical storage device such as a disk drive. The present disclosure provides for implementing standard eDrive protocols in the cloud by designing internal disk storage, referred to as a 'system area,' in a virtual disk instance that the virtual disk can potentially utilize for a multitude of disk features. This internal storage can be used to implement eDrive protocols, which use the system area to maintain the necessary internal virtual disk state.