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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Mikhail Bilenko, Bellevue, WA (US);
Miles Arthur Munson, Groton, NY (US);
Mikhail Bilenko, Bellevue, WA (US);
Miles Arthur Munson, Groton, NY (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein is a method that includes receiving user history data and generating an indication of quality of a tier assignment used to store searchable digital items in a tiered storage system, wherein the indication is based at least in part upon a subset of the user history data. Also described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives user history data. The system further includes a quality indicator component that determines an indication of quality of a tier assignment used to store digital items that are retrievable by way of querying, wherein the quality indicator component generates the indication based at least in part upon a subset of the user history data and the tier assignment indicates where digital items are to be stored in a tiered storage system.