Patent ID: 8683145

Claim:
One or more computer-readable hardware storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform acts comprising: sending a processing guide to a storage device, the processing guide including a stream indicator associating the processing guide with a first storage command stream; and sending a set of storage commands to the storage device, a subset of one or more of the commands in the set of commands each including a stream indicator that matches the stream indicator in the processing guide and identifies the command with the first stream, at least one command in the subset including a first stream indicator and a second stream indicator, the first stream indicator being the stream indicator that identifies the at least one command with the first stream, the first stream indicator also indicating the at least one command belongs to the first stream, and the second stream indicator identifying the at least one command with a second storage command stream and indicating the at least one command belongs to the second stream.