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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
May. 01, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael John Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Chris Guzak, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sangeeta Ranjit, NewCastle, WA (US);
Scott David Hoogerwerf, Seattle, WA (US);
Amnon Itamar Govrin, Issaquah, WA (US);
Kiernon Reiniger, Snohomish, WA (US);
David C Fields, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ramanarayanan Ramani, Seattle, WA (US);
Raghu Krishnamurhty, Bellevue, WA (US);
Subha Santhanam, Redmond, WA (US);
Oded Yehuda Shekel, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to file system placeholders. In aspects, placeholders may be used by a client to represent remote file system objects. The placeholders may include metadata and may also include none, some, or all of the content of the represented remote file system objects. In response to a request to access content of a file system object represented by a placeholder, a client may obtain needed data from a remote storage system and stream or not stream the data to the requesting application based on whether the requesting application is capable of streaming the data.