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Article: Massachusetts Inventors Develop Storage System Content Deletion Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 16 -- Philippe Armangau of Acton, Mass., Stephen J. Todd of Shrewsbury, Mass., and John Loonie of Boxboro, Mass., have developed an apparatus for deleting content from a storage system.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a computer system that includes primary and secondary storage systems. When a request to store a content unit is received, it may be determined whether to store the content unit on the primary storage system or the secondary storage system. In another embodiment, a computer may store information relating to an action to be performed in one of the directories of a file system that corresponds to a period ...