US 12,111,946 B2
Hybrid cloud
David Lee Trachy, Longmont, CO (US)
Assigned to Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO (US)
Filed by Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,403.
Application 17/894,403 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/849,232, filed on Apr. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,533,377.
Application 16/849,232 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/376,048, filed on Dec. 12, 2016, granted, now 10,645,165.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/398,267, filed on Sep. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0405415 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/6218 (2013.01) [H04L 63/102 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hybrid cloud network data handling method comprising:
providing a public cloud communicatively linked to a private data center, the private data center comprising a data receptacle that is holding at least one data element, the data receptacle defined in non-transient mass storage, the data element not present in the public cloud;
an end-user entering the hybrid cloud network and requesting access to the data element;
and
locating the data element by way of data element location information that is retained in the public cloud but not in the private data center.