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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph M Donovan, McKinney, TX (US);
Charles D James, Celina, TX (US);
Assignee:
Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
705-1 ; 707200 ;
Abstract
A system and method (10) of accounting and billing for data storage on a plurality of data storage devices (20) are provided. The data storage is mapped to a number of service levels, which specify varying data access and retrieval speeds. Therefore, instead of accounting and billing for data storage solely on the basis of quantity of data, it is done on the basis of data access and retrieval speeds required by each data storage application.
Published as:
CA2238749A1; WO9720278A1; AU7738996A; EP0864132A1; MX9804280A; NZ323283A; BR9611801A; AU710912B2; US6012032A; JP2000501528A;