Patent ID: 8819011

Claim:
A method for displaying a data object, wherein the data object is stored in a distributed storage network (DSN) memory, comprises: interpreting a file command to display the data object by a command line interpreter operating on a user device, wherein the file command includes a file name of the data object; determining an application program to process the data object based on the file command; determining the data object is stored in the DSN memory based on the file name, wherein the data object is stored as an X number of encoded data slices and wherein a threshold T number corresponds to a threshold value of the plurality of encoded data slices needed to reconstruct the data object using an error encoding dispersal storage function and wherein X>T; requesting a DSN processing module to retrieve the data object from the DSN memory, wherein the DSN processing module is operable to: translate the filename into a virtual DSN address to determine a location of the data object in the DSN memory, wherein the filename includes a vault identifier of a virtual DSN address space assigned to the user device; retrieve at least a number T of the X number of encoded data slices; reconstruct the data object from at least the number T of the encoded data slices; and provide the data object to the application program; and requesting the application program to input the data object and process the data object for display.