US Patent 7676551 Lookup partitioning storage system and method

Patent 7676551 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent

Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7676551

Patent Inventor Names

Bradley J. Barrows0

David R. Shutt0

Craig Allen Harry0

Shan Jiang0

Nishant Dani0

Apurva F. Dalia0

Brad Dean Thompson0

Date of Patent

March 9, 2010

Patent Application Number

10606626

Date Filed

June 25, 2003

Patent Primary Examiner

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Vivek Srivastava

Patent abstract

A method, system, and computer-readable medium for accessing and managing an online storage system is disclosed. Access to a storage resource in a multiple server storage system is provided by sending to a lookup partitioning service server a resource identifier that is associated with a storage resource stored in a particular storage partition of a storage server. The LPS returns the looked-up partition that stores the storage resource associated with the resource identifier. Access to the storage resource is then enabled to the looked-up storage partition.