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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2013
Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Hakan Ancin, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Xi Chen, Davis, CA (US);
Amrit Jassal, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Daniel H. Jung, San Ramon, CA (US);
Gregory B. Neustaetter, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sean H. Puttergill, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramakrishnan Sundararaj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Vedanthan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chandrasekhar Yalangi, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramanathan Kavasseri, Fremont, CA (US);
Ravi Kariyawasam Bodhitantri Wijayaratne, San Jose, CA (US);
Shishir Sharma, Mountain View, CA (US);
EGNYTE, INC., Mountainview, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing access to objects associated with a particular client in a cloud storage system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of establishing a connection with a user, providing a client namespace associated with the client to the user, where the client namespace represents objects stored on the cloud storage system and objects stored on a private storage system apart from the cloud storage system, receiving a request from the user to access an object stored on the private storage system, and providing information to the user to facilitate access to the object stored on the private storage system by said user. Other systems and methods are also disclosed. Important advantages of the present invention are facilitated by separating the logic for user access (control plane) from the actual storage (Storage plane). Private file system access can still be managed from the cloud, while keeping the client data private.