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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2002
Jered Donald Aasheim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yongqi Yang, Bellevue, WA (US);
John Kalkman, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jered Donald Aasheim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yongqi Yang, Bellevue, WA (US);
John Kalkman, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An open-architecture transactional file system is described. In one described implementation, a file system comprises a plurality of interchangeable and/or customizable logic layers configured to manage operations on behalf of an application when the application makes data requests to a data source. Functionality associated with the file system is augmentable by substituting and/or modifying one or more of the plurality of interchangeable and/or customizable logic layers, respectively, enabling the file system to function with many different types of data sources.