ONLINE REPAIR OF METADATA FOR STRUCTURED DATA INCLUDING FILE SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 10,733,045

Granted

2020-08-04

Filed 2016

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15277089

Embodiments described herein relate to testing the integrity of a storage system's metadata while corresponding structured data remains online. Embodiments also relate to enabling corrupt storage system metadata to be repaired while the metadata remains in use and while its structured data remains online. Corruption detection and repair is described with respect to allocation metadata and reference count metadata. The embodiments are applicable to many types of storage systems, including file systems and databases, for example.

AI hardwareG06F 11/1004G06F 3/0619G06F 3/0631G06F 3/064G06F 3/0673G06F 11/08G06F 11/1435G06F 11/1446

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Planning0.13
Knowledge representation0.13
Natural language0.05
Machine learning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 398650488

Assignors

RAT, CORNEL, LEE, CHESONG, DAS, RAJ

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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