|||||||||III US005579517A United States Patent (19) 11) Patent Number: 5,579,517 Reynolds Et Al
|||||||||III US005579517A United States Patent (19) 11) Patent Number: 5,579,517 Reynolds et al. (45) Date of Patent: Nov. 26, 1996 (54) COMMON NAME SPACE FOR LONG AND 5,313,646 5/1994 Hendricks et al. ..................... 395/600 SHORT FILENAMES 5,359,725 10/1994 Garcia et al. ... ... 395/500 5,371,885 12/1994 Letwin ... ... 395/600 (75) Inventors: Aaron R. Reynolds, Redmond; Dennis E. 2. 2. Ea. 3: R. Adler, Mercer Island; Ralph A. a 4/5 allc. ... Lipe, Woodinville; Ray D. Pedrizetti, 5,421,001 5/1995 Methe ..................................... 395/500 Issaquah; Jeffrey T. Parsons; OTHER PUBLICATIONS Rasipuram V. Arun, both of Redmond, & T. all of Wash. Ray Duncan, "Using long filenames and extended attributes' parts 1 & 2, PC Magazine vol. 9 nos 8 & 9. pp. Assignee: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, 317 & 305, Apr. 24 & May 15, 1990. (73) Wash. Ray Duncan, "Design Goals and Implementation of the new High Performance File System” Microsoft Systems Journal, Appl. No.: 427,004 vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 1-13, Sep. 1989. (21) a v V 9 Filed: Apr. 24, 1995 Primary Examiner-Thomas G. Black (22) Assistant Examiner-C. Pham Related U.S. Application Data Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Seed and Berry (63) Continuation of Ser. No. 41497, Apr. 1, 1993, abandoned. ' ABSTRACT (51) Int. Cl. ................................. G06F 17/30 An operating system provides a common name space for U.S. Cl 395/616. 395/425: 395/500; both long filenames and short filenames. In this common (52) A1 "395,575,364,246,364/DIG 1364,254; namespace, a long filename and a short filename are pro 66526,366.
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