METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUALIZING FILE SYSTEM PLACEHOLDERS AT A COMPUTER

Patent №

US 9,239,762

Granted

2016-01-19

Filed 2009

Owner

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12539571

The virtualization of file system placeholders is described. In one embodiment, a method for virtualizing placeholders includes monitoring placeholder creation initiated by at least one archival operation, generating placeholder data in a separate data store from a file system, wherein the placeholder data comprises a plurality of placeholders that correspond with a plurality of archived files, and servicing access requests for at least one archived file of the plurality of archived files using the placeholder data.

AI hardwareG06F 11/1448G06F 16/188

AI classification

AI hardware0.66
Knowledge representation0.17
Natural language0.03
Evolutionary computation0.01
Planning0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

assignment · 230930755

Assignors

GUNDA, LAXMIKANT VITHAL, SHANMUGHAM, PILLAI BIJU

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

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