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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2004
Shrinivas Ashwin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jose A. Blakeley, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter Carlin, Seattle, WA (US);
Jun Fang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ajay Kalhan, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian Kleinerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stefano Stefani, Seattle, WA (US);
Aleksandras Surna, Redmond, WA (US);
Honggang Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shrinivas Ashwin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jose A. Blakeley, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter Carlin, Seattle, WA (US);
Jun Fang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ajay Kalhan, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian Kleinerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stefano Stefani, Seattle, WA (US);
Aleksandras Surna, Redmond, WA (US);
Honggang Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the present invention are direct to the utilization of Blob Handles (BHs) which are an internal representation of a large value. BHs are immutable and stateless references to a large data object. The structure of a BH contains enough information to return an ILockBytes interface in order to provide access to the corresponding large data block, and a BH can also return information regarding its own lifetime description. A BH can be completely described using (a) a pointer to the beginning of BH data and (b) the byte-length of the BH.