US 12,265,726 B2
User selectable transitional storage partition
Mai Ghaly, San Jose, CA (US); and Thomas Fahrig, Redmond, WA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/987,509.
Prior Publication US 2024/0160376 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0655 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a command to download data to a high-density partition;
determining whether the high-density partition has a high-density free space that is large enough to store the data;
in response to determining that the high-density free space is not large enough to store the data:
determining whether a low-density partition has a low-density free space that is large enough to be converted and added to the high-density free space to store the data in the high-density partition; and
in response to determining that the low-density free space is large enough to be converted and added to the high-density free space to store the data in the high-density partition, converting at least a part of the low-density free space in the low-density partition to the high-density partition and enlarging the high-density free space;
downloading the data; and
storing the data in the high-density free space of the high-density partition.