ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,207, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CDW LLC (Vernon Hills, Ill.).
"File system migration mapping" was invented by Ryan Andrew Bandel (Artesia, Calif.), Samuel Mashburn (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Thomas W. Dietz (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system and method for mapping a migration to a new distributed file system is provided. A method may include receiving file system metadata from an existing distributed file system, comparing permissions for each file and each user, generating a plurality of recommended groups, recommended folders, and recommended permissions, and presenting the recommended grou...