STORAGE ABSTRACTION LAYER AND A SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a storage abstraction layer that is a concatenation of a plurality of storage devices that is accessible by a computing device. The plurality of storage devices includes at least one attached storage of the computing device, at least one cloud storage, or a combination thereof. The storage abstraction layer is presented as an application programming interface (API) to applications running on the computing device to allow each application to store and retrieve data as if it was using a single storage, regardless of where each of the plurality of storage devices is located and the type of each of the plurality of storage devices. Access to individual objects or files on this layer is done transparently such that underlying implementation details are hidden from the calling application.

主权项

1. A wireless communication device comprising:
a processor; at least one application executed by the processor, wherein the at least one application generates application data; and a storage abstraction layer interfacing between the at least one application and a plurality of storage devices accessible by the wireless communication device, wherein the storage abstraction layer includes:
an application programming interface (API) presented to and used by the at least one application to store the application data across one or more of the plurality of storage devices; anda map specifying which one of the plurality of storage each portion of the application data is written to.