Patent ID: 8396969
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating buckets in a hosted storage platform, the method comprising: receiving, at a hosted storage computer system that utilizes a single namespace across data stores of the hosted storage computer system for a plurality of users, a request from a first user of the hosted storage computer system to create a first bucket having a name that includes a domain name; verifying, using a domain-based verification protocol, that the first user is an authorized manager of a domain that corresponds to the domain name, wherein the domain-based verification protocol includes verifying that the first user is authorized to modify a DNS configuration of the domain; creating the first bucket on the hosted storage computer system in response to verifying that the first user is an authorized manager of the domain; verifying, using a site-based verification protocol, that a second user is an authorized manager of the domain that corresponds to the domain name, wherein the site-based verification protocol includes verifying that the user is able to introduce content into files hosted on the domain or verifying that the user is able to upload files to be hosted on the domain; after verifying that the first user is an authorized manager of the domain using a domain-based verification protocol: