# US 2018/0025403 A1 · Enabling a multiple storage marketplace through selective permutation of inherited storage

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- Number: US 2018/0025403 A1
- Document ID: US20180025403A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/214,483
- Filed: 2016-07-20
- Published: 2018-01-25
- Earliest claimed: 2016-07-20
- Inventors: GARY HOWARD MCKAY; REGAN JARROD MCKAY
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180025403A1

## CPC

- G06Q 30/0619: {Neutral agent}
- G06Q 30/0283: Price estimation or determination
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

## Abstract

Methods for enabling a multiple storage marketplace through selecting a permutation of inherited storage created in a tiered hierarchy mechanism through a topology of multiple hybrid cloud storage systems. Through those methods of permutation, a seamless mechanism of local storage, on-premises cloud and hybrid cloud storage management, a scalable configuration is achieved that enable a top-down flow of storage space accumulation throughout the topology. Any node in a particular topology space is capable of selecting a unique permutation that would hold for a particular session of storage space flow. Through those methods, a marketplace of storage space is created, thereby proliferating the topology of multiple hybrid cloud storage systems with ad-hoc permutation based selection of inherited storage spaces. The marketplace is independent of the storage system topology, number of nodes in the topology as well as the number of elements chosen in the permutation.

## Claims

### Claim 1

Methods of creating a storage marketplace during inheritance of multiple storages and selective permutation of inherited storage thereof among a plurality of resellers set up in a logical tree network topology.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

Methods of calculating and setting price information during inheritance of multiple storages and selective permutation of inherited storage thereof from the created marketplace among a plurality of resellers and companies set up in a logical tree network topology, as derived from claim 1.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

Methods of allocating pricing and storage for a plurality of resellers and companies with scalability and diminution in the successive tiered hierarchy of the said resellers and companies set up in a logical tree network topology, as derived from claim 1.