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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2009
Carl Melvin Ellison, New York, NY (US);
Charles G. Jeffries, Sammamish, WA (US);
Carl Melvin Ellison, New York, NY (US);
Charles G. Jeffries, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Data stored on a storage medium can be referenced by multiple independently addressable active symbolic links, with each active symbolic link representing the data through a different transformation. The active symbolic links can be in the form of file system objects, such as files or directories. A single active symbolic link can reference the data stored in multiple collections, or, conversely, a subset of data from a single collection. Active symbolic links can be automatically created for common data transformations. Searching across active symbolic links referencing encrypted data can be performed by multiple protection-specific search engines, or a single search engine that can generate a protection-level aware search index.