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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2009
Catherine Claire Marshall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yan Leshinsky, Kirkland, WA (US);
Elissa Murphy, Seattle, WA (US);
Navjot Virk, Bellevue, WA (US);
Catherine Claire Marshall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yan Leshinsky, Kirkland, WA (US);
Elissa Murphy, Seattle, WA (US);
Navjot Virk, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can determine costs associated with updating file formats. In particular, the architecture can interface with a network-accessible data storage service in order to determine a cost-benefit to the data storage service for a wide variety of conversion scenarios applicable to the particular topology of the data storage service. For example, the cost-benefit can differ for storage services configured according to a client-server model relative to storage services configured according to a distributed topology. Regardless, the architecture can identify a legacy format, select a converter for converting the legacy format to the updated format, and then determine the cost-benefit for a variety of conversion or migration scenarios.