LOCATION AND CONTEXT FOR COMPUTER FILE SYSTEM

A computer file system includes a storage manager configured to allocate data storage space for a plurality of computer files having different filetypes. A location and context application programming interface (API) of the computer file system associates location and context metadata with any of th...

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Main Authors OTERO DIAZ, Ana Lilia, WEST, Jeff, SALOWITZ, Elizabeth P, SETHI, Kshitij, GROCHOCKI, David R., Jr
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 25.11.2020
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A computer file system includes a storage manager configured to allocate data storage space for a plurality of computer files having different filetypes. A location and context application programming interface (API) of the computer file system associates location and context metadata with any of the plurality of computer files regardless of filetype. The location and context metadata includes one or more filetype-agnostic geographic locations associated with the computer file, each of the one or more filetype-agnostic geographic locations having a shared predefined format assigned by the location and context API. The location and context metadata also includes, for each of the one or more filetype-agnostic geographic locations associated with the computer file, a location context describing a relationship between the filetype-agnostic geographic location and the computer file.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20190707594