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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2007
Applicants:

Stephen J. Todd, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

John D. Hushon, Jr., Medfield, MA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen J. Todd, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

John D. Hushon, Jr., Medfield, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to controlling access to a content unit stored on an object addressable storage (OAS) system. In one embodiment, the content unit may have an object identifier that is used to identify it on the OAS system. A first portion of a content unit may be assigned a first set of access permissions and a second portion of the content unit may be assigned a second set of access permissions that is different from the first set of access permissions.


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