[Patents] Re: Patent on "extended file system", by Microsoft

[Martin Wahlén mva@df.lth.se]

On 31 Jan 2001, PILCH Hartmut wrote:

> Microsoft aspires to ownership of the concept of distributing a file
> system over a network:
>
>         http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=WO0057315&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD
>
>   1. In a computer system, a method of providing access to file system
>   object data, comprising: receiving a request to access object data
>   from the file system; determining whether the data is maintained at a
>   local source or is maintained at a remote source; and if maintained at
>   the local source, providing access to the data from the local source;
>   and if maintained at the remote source, providing access to the data
>   from the remote source.

Tastes like CODA.

Martin