INTEGRATED ARCHIVAL SYSTEM

• US 20140149636A1
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Morrison, Frank R. III, Hunt, Brandon, Burba, Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 9,519,574 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/102
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/206 Game information storage, e.g. cartridges, CD ROM's, DVD's, smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6027 using adaptive systems learning from user actions, e.g. for skill level adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/02 Addressing or allocation; Relocation program address sequencing G06F9/00; arrangements for selecting an address in a digital store G11C8/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0862 with prefetch
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/6024 History based prefetching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/6042 Allocation of cache space to multiple users or processors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0608 Saving storage space on storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0649 Lifecycle management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0685 Hybrid storage combining heterogeneous device types, e.g. hierarchical storage, hybrid arrays

Abstract

Embodiments are disclosed for presenting a digital content item comprising a plurality of content portions. One example embodiment includes a computing device comprising a primary content storage machine, where the primary content storage machine is configured to selectively store one or more content portions of a digital content item. The computing device is configured to determine a dynamically changing content access window including one or more content portions useable to provide an above-threshold user experience based on a current access position of the digital content item. The computing device is configured to dynamically load the primary content storage machine with the content portions of the digital content item corresponding to the content access window and dynamically unload the content portions of the digital content item outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a primary content storage machine, the primary content storage machine configured to selectively store one or more content portions of a digital content item; and

a logic machine configured to;

determine a dynamically changing content access window including one or more content portions useable to provide an above-threshold user experience based on a current access position of the digital content item;

dynamically load the primary content storage machine with the content portions of the digital content item corresponding to the content access window; and

dynamically unload the content portions of the digital content item outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine.

2. The computing device of claim 1, where the logic machine is further configured to delete the content portions outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine.

3. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising an extended content storage machine, where the logic machine is further configured to load the extended content storage machine with the content portions outside of the content access window.

4. The computing device of claim 3, where the logic machine is further configured to configure the extended storage device by specifying how much of the extended storage device is usable to load the content portions outside of the content access window.

5. The computing device of claim 3, where the extended content storage machine includes a plurality of discrete content storage machines, where the logic machine is further configured to selectively load one or more of the discrete content storage machines with the content portions outside of the content access window.

6. The computing device of claim 3, where the logic machine is configured to dynamically load the primary content storage machine with the content portions of the digital content item corresponding to the content access window by acquiring content portions from the extended content storage machine.

7. The computing device of claim 1, where the primary content storage machine is a non-volatile content storage machine.

8. The computing device of claim 1, where the content access window includes a minimum set of content portions determined to provide the above-threshold user experience.

9. The computing device of claim 1, where the content access window corresponds to a particular time period of content access about the current access position.

10. The computing device of claim 1, where the logic machine is configured to selectively vary a size of the content access window.

11. The computing device of claim 1, where the digital content item is a video game.

12. A gaming device, comprising

a primary content storage machine, the primary content storage machine configured to selectively store one or more game portions of a video game;

and

a logic machine configured to;

determine a dynamically changing content access window including one or more game portions useable to provide uninterrupted gameplay based on a current access position of the video game;

dynamically load the primary content storage machine with the game portions corresponding to the content access window; and

dynamically unload the game portions outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine.

13. The gaming device of claim 12, where the logic machine is further configured to delete the game portions outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine.

14. The gaming device of claim 12, further comprising an extended content storage machine, where the logic machine is further configured to load the extended content storage machine with the game portions outside of the content access window.

15. The gaming device of claim 14, where the logic machine is configured to dynamically load the primary content storage machine with the game portions corresponding to the content access window by acquiring game portions from the extended content storage machine.

16. The gaming device of claim 12, where the primary content storage machine is a hard drive.

17. The gaming device of claim 12, where the primary content storage machine includes solid state memory.

18. A method for presenting a digital content item comprising a plurality of content portions, the method comprising:

determining a dynamically changing content access window including one or more content portions useable to provide an above-threshold user experience based on a current access position of the digital content item;

dynamically loading a primary content storage machine with the content portions of the digital content item corresponding to the content access window; and

dynamically unloading the content portions of the digital content item outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein dynamically unloading the content portions of the digital content item outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine includes loading an extended content storage machine with the content portions.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the content access window corresponds to a particular time period of content access about the current access position.