Patent ID: 9032484
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for causing a computer to implement a heterogeneous operating system data access method, the method comprising: receiving, in a first computing system having a first operating system, a request from a second computing system to access a data set, wherein the second computing system has a second operating system dissimilar to the first operating system; preparing, by the first computing system, the data set for access by the second computing system; determining, by the first computing system, characteristics of the data set; passing the characteristics of the data set from the first computing system to the second computing system; setting, by the first computing system, permissions for the second computing system to access the data set; notifying, from the second computing system to the first computing system, that the second computing system accessed the data set.