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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:
May. 27, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 08, 2007
Applicants:

Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);

R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);

R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques for providing access to data objects within another data object are described herein. In one embodiment, a compound object including multiple data objects is received and metadata is extracted for a data object from the compound object, where the metadata includes a layout of the data object in view of the compound object. Subsequently, access to one or more of the data objects within the compound object is provided based on the extracted metadata without using an application associated with the compound object. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.


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