US 2010/0146013 A1 · GENERALISED SELF-REFERENTIAL FILE SYSTEM AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ABSORBING DATA INTO A DATA STORE

Abstract

Embodiments of an unrestricted binary unambiguous file or memory mapped object are disclosed along with descriptions of corresponding reading and writing processes. The file or object may be used to store data of any type. ‘Binary unambiguous’ refers to a quality whereby the binary data stored within the datastore (file or memory map) is always and uniquely identified by a binary type identifier readily discerned from the self same map. Similarly, the term ‘unrestricted’ refers to the capacity of the protocol to accept data of any type, nature, format, structure or context, in a manner that retains the binary unambiguous nature of embodiments of the disclosed technology for each data item. A storage object so created may be easily read by dedicated software, and as well as with the provision of appropriate metadata, be transferred between data stores without requiring intervention from a computer user or administrator.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method of storing data in a form suitable for transfer, comprising:

with a computer, receiving user data;
with the computer, receiving a unique identifier for the data type of the user data;
with the computer, creating a record in a data store, and storing the user data in the record with the indication of the data type;
with the computer, receiving user data defining the data type, the user data specifying for the data type at least the number of bytes of the user data that are intended as references to other records, or that are non-reference values;
and
with the computer, creating a further record in the data store, and storing the user data defining the data type with the unique identifier in the record as a data type transfer descriptor.

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A computer implemented method of transferring data from a first data store to a second data store, wherein data in the first data store is stored in one or more records, and for each data type of user data stored as one or more records, there is a data type transfer descriptor stored as a record, the method comprising:

with a computing device, reading a first record from the first data store;
with the computing device, identifying in the first record a data type indication;
with the computing device, identifying the record in the data store containing the data type transfer descriptor;
and
based on the data type transfer descriptor and with the computing device, transferring records from the first data store to the second data store.

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A computer readable medium having computer code stored thereon for transferring data from a first data store to a second data store, wherein data in the first data store is stored in one or more records, and for each data type of user data stored as one or more records, there is a data type transfer descriptor stored as a record, wherein when the computer code is executed by a computer processor it causes the computer processor to perform the acts of:

reading a first record from the first data store;
identifying in the first record a data type indication;
identifying the record in the data store containing the data type transfer descriptor;
and
based on the data type transfer descriptor, transferring records from the first data store to the second data store.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Generalised self-referential file system and method and system for absorbing data into a data store

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Generalised self-referential file system and method and system for absorbing data into a data store

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