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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:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2002
Applicants:
Don Bolinger, Concord, MA (US);
Arthur Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey Silberman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Don Bolinger, Concord, MA (US);
Arthur Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey Silberman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A mechanism for controlled sharing of files by clustered applications is provided. The mechanism expands a distributed file access protocol, such as the direct access file system protocol, by including an open with share token command and an open_downgrade operation to adjust the access and deny levels for a given resource.