Virtual storage device from multiple online accounts

Details Virtual storage device from multiple online accounts Virtual storage device from multiple online accounts

2008-02-15

2009-02-03

Avellino, Joseph E (Department: 2146)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer conferencing

Demand based messaging

C709S219000, C709S227000, C719S320000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07487219

ABSTRACT:
One embodiment provides a single, universally available, potentially unlimited web-based storage space by the use of RAID technology over multiple, heterogeneous web-based accounts. Such a solution has the following advantages: the storage capacity of the virtual data space can be dynamically sized by adding additional accounts; unauthorized access to one account will not result in access to the entire data set; the use of multiple servers provides the potential for faster access to data than via a single server e.g. when access to one service is slow; and the use of multiple servers provides better resilience for data access, e.g. when one account is unavailable. Redundant storage of data lowers the chance of the loss of access to one account leading to the loss of the entire data set.

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