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Billing system for information dispersal system
S. Christopher Gladwin,Matthew M. England,Zachary J. Mark,Vance Thornton,Joshua J. Mullin,Sejal Kumarbhai Modi +5 more
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In this paper, the original data to be stored is separated into a number of data'slices' or shares (22, 24, 26, 28, 30, and 32) and stored on separate digital data storage devices (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44) as a way of increasing privacy and security.Abstract:
A billing process is disclosed for an information dispersal system or digital data storage system. The original data to be stored is separated into a number of data 'slices' or shares (22, 24, 26, 28, 30, and 32). These data subsets are stored on separate digital data storage devices (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44) as a way of increasing privacy and security. A set of metadata tables are created, separate from the dispersed file share storage, to maintain information about the original data size of each block, file or set of file shares dispersed on the grid.read more
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Metadata management system for an information dispersed storage system
S. Christopher Gladwin,Matthew M. England,Dustin M. Hendrickson,Zachary J. Mark,Vance Thornton,Jason K. Resch,Dhanvi Gopala Krishna Kapila Lakshmana Harsha +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an information dispersal sytem in which original data to be stored is separated into a number of data "slices" in such a manner that the data in each subset is less usable or less recognizable or completely unusable or completely unrecognizable by itself except when combined with some or all of the other data subsets.
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Smart access to a dispersed data storage network
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System for rebuilding dispersed data
Christopher S. Gladwin,Matthew M. England,Krishna Kapila Lakshmana Harsha Dhanvi Gopala,Zachary J. Mark,Vance Thornton +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a digital data file storage system is disclosed in which original data files to be stored are dispersed using some form of information dispersal algorithm into a number of file subsets in such a manner that the data in each file share is less usable or less recognizable or completely unusable or completely unrecognizable by itself except when combined with some or all of the other file shares.
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Block based access to a dispersed data storage network
S. Christopher Gladwin,Greg R. Dhuse,Vance Thornton,Manish Motwani,Jason K. Resch,Ilya Volvovski,Jamie Bellanca,John Quigley +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a block-based interface to a dispersed data storage network is disclosed, which accepts read and write commands from a file system resident on a user's computer and generates network commands that are forwarded to slice servers.
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Virtualized data storage vaults on a dispersed data storage network
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TL;DR: In this article, a system, method, and apparatus for implementing a plurality of dispersed data storage networks using a set of slice servers are disclosed, with each information record corresponding to a distributed data storage network.
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