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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. 30, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Robert R. Snead, King County, WA (US);
Inventor:
Robert R. Snead, King County, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a system and method for dynamically, segregating storage resources, pooling such resources into groups, assigning and associating security attributes with those groups. The present invention is further directed to protecting storage media within a shared mass storage device in a network computing environment by utilizing the security attributes. The system of the present invention incorporates a client/server and networked storage device infrastructure that allows dynamic and automatic support of access to storage devices from a plurality of client/server systems on a network.