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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bradley G. Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew James Edwards, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shuitao Fan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Chun Yuan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jaidev Haridas, Redmond, WA (US);
Matthew Douglas Hendel, Seattle, WA (US);
Aung Maw Oo, Kirkland, WA (US);
Phillip Taron, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, methods and systems for transferring data using a storage medium are provided. A storage medium may be shipped by a customer to a datacenter such that the data on the storage medium is copied to a storage associated with the datacenter or data in the storage is copied to the storage medium. The datacenter may support a cloud computing infrastructure that provides a storage account to the customer that is associated with the data copied from or copied to the storage medium. The storage medium further corresponds to a data transfer manifest that includes at least in part data mapping between storage service infrastructure and data in the storage medium. It is contemplated that embodiments of the present invention may further be implemented with data transfer service components that support a client component, storage service component, and a data transfer management component.