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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:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Applicants:
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Howard Gobioff, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shun-tak Leung, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Howard Gobioff, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shun-Tak Leung, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A file system includes a master connected to multiple servers. The servers may store data. The master may communicate with the servers upon startup of the master to authoritatively identify the data stored by the servers and record location information that identifies ones of the servers that store the data.