Patent ID: 8886992
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprises: creating, by a user device, a cloud data storage request that includes data for storing and at least one of a cloud storage access reliability indication and a cloud storage data reliability indication; sending, by the user device, the cloud data storage request to a cloud storage system; interpreting, by a device of the cloud storage system, the at least one of cloud storage access reliability indication and the cloud storage data reliability indication to determine at least one of a storage access level and a storage reliability level; determining, by the device of the cloud storage system, dispersed storage error encoding parameters based on the at least one of the storage access level and the storage reliability level; encoding, by the device of the cloud storage system, the data based on the dispersed storage error encoding parameters to produce one or more sets of encoded data slices; and storing, by storage units of the cloud storage system, the one or more sets of encoded data slices.