Patent ID: 9639296
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system for managing provisioned data stores, the system comprising: one or more physical storage devices configured to provide a virtual data store accessible to a user computing device, wherein the virtual data store is associated with a reported capacity greater than an actual capacity allocated to the virtual data store, wherein the actual capacity allocated to the virtual data store comprises a set of allocated portions of the physical storage devices, wherein each allocated portion comprises a plurality of individually addressable data blocks, each individually addressable data block being writable independently from other individually addressable data blocks, wherein a size of each allocated portion exceeds a size of each data block, and wherein each data block is individually addressable by the user computing device; one or more processors implementing a virtual data store interaction component, said one or more processors implementing the virtual data store interaction component configured to enable the user computing device to write to and read from individually addressable data blocks within the virtual data store; and one or more processors implementing a virtual data store management component, said one or more processors implementing the virtual data store management component configured to: