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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. 10, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2005
Applicants:
William P. Mcgovern, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Merrick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
William P. McGovern, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Merrick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A file system in a storage system allows a user to designate data as write-once read-many (WORM) data. The WORM data are stored in a first set of storage media of the storage system. Signature data are generated from the WORM data. Using the signature data, the integrity of the WORM data can be verified.