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US 8,769,609 B2Granted
Protecting file entities
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAlastair Slater, Daniel Philip Coney
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Abstract
There is described a computer system to provide a filesystem, and to export a consumer directory of the filesystem for access by a consumer application over a network. The system has a protected directory. Protection controls restrict performance of file management activities on file entities of the protected directory by the consumer application.
Claims20
A computer system to:
- provide a filesystem;
- export a shared directory of the filesystem for access by a consumer application over a network;
- determine whether one or more protection criteria of the shared directory are satisfied;
- in response to a determination that the one or more protection criteria of the shared directory are satisfied:
- automatically move one or more file entities from the shared directory to a protected directory;
- and
- prevent performance of file management activities on the one or more file entities of the protected directory by the consumer application.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon to cause a processor included in a server to:
- provide, by a server, at least one filesystem including:
- a protected directory;
- and
- a shared directory accessible to a consumer application of a client computer using a network filesystem protocol;
- determine whether one or more protection criteria are satisfied;
- in response to a determination that the one or more protection criteria are satisfied:
- automatically move one or more file entities from the shared directory to the protected directory;
- and
- protect one or more file entities in the protected directory from modification by the consumer application from the protected directory.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- sharing, by a server, a shared directory with a consumer application over a network;
- determining whether one or more protection criteria are satisfied;
- in response to a determination that the one or more protection criteria are satisfied:
- automatically moving one or more file entities from the shared directory to a protected directory;
- and
- protecting the one or more file entities in the protected directory from manipulation by the consumer application.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.