US 2021/0067589 A1Published application

Managing data resources

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsTor KREUTZER, Jan-Ove Almli KARLBERG, Shamika Ruklan JAYASUNDARA, Øystein FLEDSBERG, Øystein TORBJØRNSEN, Åge Andre KVALNES, Helge Grenager SOLHEIM

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Abstract

A method comprising: storing, in a database, a list of geographical regions in which the party consents to their data being stored; receiving a request to store data of the party, wherein at least one of the data has a region-restriction that restricts the regions in which that data can be stored; determining, based on a respective region-restriction of a respective one of the data, in which of the list of regions the respective data can be stored; storing the data, wherein each respective data is stored in at least one respective storage centre associated with one of the regions according to the determination; storing, in the database, a list comprising a pointer to each respective stored data, wherein the pointer identifies the respective storage centre; receiving a request to retrieve a respective stored data; and using the pointer to route the request to the respective storage centre.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A server system comprising one or more server units, the server system storing a manager function arranged to run on one or more processors of the one or more server units, wherein the manager function is configured to perform operations of:

storing, in a database, a list of geographical regions in which a party consents to data resources of said party being stored;
receiving a storage request to store data resources of the party, wherein at least one of the data resources has a region-restriction that restricts the geographical regions in which that data resource can be stored;
determining, based on a respective region-restriction of a respective one of the data resources, in which of the list of geographical regions the at least one data resource can be stored;
storing the data resources, wherein each respective data resource is stored in at least one respective storage centre associated with at least one of the geographical regions according to said determination;
storing, in the database, a list comprising a respective pointer to each respective stored data resource, wherein the respective pointer identifies the at least one respective storage centre;
and
receiving a query request to retrieve a respective stored data resource;
and using the respective pointer to route the query request to the at least one respective storage centre.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/096,525Filed 12 Nov 2020
Priority: 26 Nov 2018
Published: 4 Mar 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 16/14
File systems; File servers: details of searching files based on file metadata
H04L 67/1097
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for…
G06F 16/125
Using management policies: characterised by the use of retention policies
G06F 16/29
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: geographical information databases

Family

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