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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:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Michael J. Callahan, Vancouver, WA (US);
Samuel Revitch, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Michael J. Callahan, Vancouver, WA (US);
Samuel Revitch, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30091 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment is a method that stores metadata about files separately from directories for the files in storage devices and represents the directories as a tree structure in which entries refer to separate storage blocks that include the metadata with each of the separate storage blocks storing metadata for only a single file.