# Edmund Nightingale — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Edmund Nightingale has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Microsoft Organizes Data in Multi-Tier Storage Systems](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9824092/file-storage-system-including-tiers) — granted 2017
  A method for organizing computer data into three specific tiers—log, hash, and journal stores—to make writing and reading data faster and more efficient.

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