Apple inc. (20250086141). TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING FILE SYSTEM UTILIZATION BY SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING FILE SYSTEM UTILIZATION BY SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Meha N. Desai of Palo Alto CA (US)

Eric B. Tamura of Sunnyvale CA (US)

Cameron S. Birse of San Jose CA (US)

Jason R. Thorpe of San Francisco CA (US)

Madhuree Dayanand of Mountain View CA (US)

Yair Schiff of Rehovot (IL)

Oded Shoshani of Azmon (IL)

Idan Fischman of Nesher (IL)

TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING FILE SYSTEM UTILIZATION BY SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250086141 titled 'TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING FILE SYSTEM UTILIZATION BY SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Original Abstract Submitted

disclosed herein are techniques for tracking file system (fs) utilization by a plurality of applications. according to some embodiments, a technique can be implemented by a computing device on which the fs is implemented, and includes the steps of (1) receiving, from an application among the plurality of applications, a request to perform an input/output (i/o) operation pertaining to a first fs object, where the request includes a unique identifier (id) associated with the application, (2) creating or locating, within the fs, the first fs object, (3) performing the i/o operation against the first fs object, (4) creating or locating, within the fs, a second fs object associated with the unique id, and (5) updating the second fs object to reflect the i/o operation. other techniques include observing, analyzing, etc., fs utilization by the plurality of applications.