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ADPT Corporation (formerly Adaptec, Inc.)

Backup and Restore Patents

August 2010August 2010

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B k d R t M k t• Backup and Restore Market• Some Examples of Backup and Restore Related Products • Contact Information• Patent Information

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Adaptec: Innovations Relevant to Storage I/O and p gBackup & Recovery

Ad t l i t i f d t l t I/O i• Adaptec was an early innovator in fundamental storage I/O processing and data storage technologies used with host bus adapters.

M f th l i ti ll d t d i t d ’• Many of these early innovations are now generally adopted in today’s personal and server computers, operating systems, and associated chipsets.

• Backup & restore capability is now standard on today’s personal and server computers; significant popularity of peripheral backup hard drives with associated backup & restore software for mainstream PC systems.

• The 11 patents in this sales package cover general I/O storage and b k d t biliti

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backup and restore capabilities.

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General Description of the Eleven Patents Offered for Sale

• These 11 patents are from the same patent family and relate to various ways of implementing backup and restore such as:

– automatic and incremental backup,p– using a peripheral storage device as a bootable device,– formatting and partitioning of a backup storage device,– repairing a failed primary disk drive.p g p y

• These patents are relevant to computer systems and networks, involving the operating system, backup and restore softwareinvolving the operating system, backup and restore software and storage devices.

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List of Patents in Package Offered for Sale

Patent Number Patent Title Family Information # of Forward References

Parent application

US6205527 Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same

Parent application (Filed July 6, 1998, claims the benefit of

U.S. Provisional Patent Application having U.S. Ser. No. 60/075,687, filed on Feb.

24, 1998 )

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US6289426 Drive preparation methods for intelligent backup systems Continuation of 6205527 24

US6374363 Method for generating a footprint image file for an intelligent backup and restoring system Continuation of 6205527 21

US6374366 Automated drive repair systems and methods Continuation of 6205527 9

US6385707 Method and apparatus for backing up a disk drive upon a system failure Continuation of 6205527 23system failure

US6430663 Methods for selecting a boot partition and hiding a non-selected partition Continuation of 6205527 24

US6477629 Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same Continuation of 6205527 26

US6532535 Method for managing primary and secondary storage devices Continuation of 6205527 22US6532535 in an intelligent backup and restoring system Continuation of 6205527 22

US6684229 Method of generating a database for use in an intelligent backup and restoring system

Continuation of 6205527 17

US6901493 Method for protecting data of a computer system Continuation of 6532535 19

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US6934722 Method of finding application components in an intelligent backup and restoring system Continuation of 6205527 21

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Exemplary Patent: US 6,684,229

IPValue has a technical relevancy presentation based on illustration of use for the patent noted above that is available upon signing of a non disclosure

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Storage Software Value Chain

Storage SoftwareWW 2007: $11B

Disk Storage Systems WW 2007: $26B

I t l St : $8B

Computer Systems WW 2007: $270BNA 2007: $70B

WW 2007: $11B

Backup & Recovery: $2.5BReplication: $2.4B

55% Sales to US

Internal Storage: $8B External Storage: $18B

•DAS: $4B•NAS: $3B•SAN: $11B

55% S l t US k t

Personal Computers: $210B Servers: $60B

55% Sales to US market48% Windows OS

24% Sales to US market

O/S SoftwareWW 2007: $29B

Server Vendor

2007 WW Market

Share (est)HP 31%IBM 30%D ll 12%

PCVendor

2007 NA Market Share

(est)Dell 30%HP 24%Acer 9%Apple 7%

MS Windows: $22B (75%) Others: $7B (25%)

Dell 12%Sun 11%Others 16%Total 100%

Apple 7%Toshiba 4%Lenovo 4%Sony 2%ASUS 1%MPC 0%IBM 0%Others 18%

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Source: IDC; Gartner; IPVALUE analysis

Others 18%Total 100%

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Several major categories of companies with various j g pinvolvements in storage backup and restore

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– Within the Software Market– Within the Software Market• Software Storage Market

– Storage Management Software Vendors – Backup & restore Software Vendors

• Operating System Software

– Within the Hardware Market• Disk Storage Market

– NAS VendorsDAS V d– DAS Vendors

– SAN Vendors – Internal Disk Storage

• Computer / System OEMs– Computer OEMs– Server and System Integrators

– Within the Service Management Market (IT Management / Datacenters)

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• Co-location IT centers• IT Outsourcing companies

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Patent Purchase Opportunity – Backup & Restore

Seller: • ADPT Corporation Examples of Potential Licensees:

PC and Server OEMs:p

Patent Assets for Sale:• 11 US Issued Patents (one patent family)

Applications:

• PC and Server OEMs:– Dell, HP, Acer, ASUSTeK, Apple, Sony, Toshiba

• Operating System OEMs– Microsoft, Apple

• Peripheral Hard Drive OEMs:• Computer OEMs

– Laptops– Desktops– Servers– Workstations

Network System Operators

p– Seagate (Maxtor)

• Backup & Restore Software OEMs:– Symantec, VMWare

Illustrative Valuation *• Network System Operators– Server / Workstation systems– Virtual machine systems

• Operating System OEMs– Pre-installed Backup & Recovery features

• Estimated example of licensing revenues: $100+ million

• Peripheral Hard Drive System OEMs

• Backup & Restore Software Vendors

*A royalty rate of 1% is an exemplary royalty rate used to calculate the valuation; discount rate of 10% applied; 5 yr license term assumed; for

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valuation; discount rate of 10% applied; 5 yr license term assumed; for illustration purposes only.



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Apple MAC OS X Leopard

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Microsoft Windows XP


Source: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx

Symantec Backup and Restore


Source: http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-server-edition

VMWare Consolidate Backup


Source: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_301_201_vm_backup.pdf

SuperDuper


Maxtor OneTouch 4


Contents

• IPVALUE and Adaptec OverviewIPVALUE and Adaptec Overview• Patent Purchase Opportunity• Backup and Restore Market

Some Examples of Backup and Restore Related Products• Some Examples of Backup and Restore Related Products • Contact Information• Patent Information

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Contents

• IPVALUE and Adaptec OverviewIPVALUE and Adaptec Overview• Patent Purchase Opportunity• Backup and Restore Market

Some Examples of Backup and Restore Related Products• Some Examples of Backup and Restore Related Products • Contact Information• Patent Information

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US Patent 6,205,527 (1 of 5)

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US Patent 6,205,527 (2 of 5)

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US Patent 6,205,527 (3 of 5)

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US Patent 6,205,527 (4 of 5)

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US Patent 6,205,527 (5 of 5)

Derwent Characterization

Patent Title Advantage

Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same

User's data and productivity are intelligently protected by using spare tire. If failure occurs, the user can resume uninterrupted work from the spare tire backup until the failure is repaired The peripheral storage

Derwent Title

Data backup for computer system, involves booting computer upon hard disc failure by spare tire

failure is repaired. The peripheral storage device does not have to be identical to the hard disc.

Noveltyhard disc failure by spare tire created by copying backup data to prepared storage media of connected peripheral storage device

A backup set of data stored in hard drive and having boot and operating system files, is selected. A spare tire is created by copying backup set to prepared storage media of coupled peripheral by file-basedmedia of coupled peripheral by file based copying scheme. After creating spare, peripheral incrementally copies portions of backup set during normal use. If failure occurs on hard drive, computer is booted f i h l i th ti

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from peripheral using the spare tire.

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US Patent 6,289,426 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,289,426 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,289,426 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,289,426 (4 of 4)


Patent Title AdvantageEnables computer systems to remain operationalMethods for selecting a boot partition and hiding

a non-selected partition

Derwent TitleDrive preparation method for intelligent backup

Enables computer systems to remain operational from the same hard disk drive while repairs are made to the original OS. Provides users with the ability to continue working uninterrupted after a failure to, e.g. the OS stored in the original boot partition. Users will be presented with a seamless

system, involves formatting backup drive partially using duplicate formats and rebooting from system primary drive with complete formatting scheme

Novelty

pa t t o Use s be p ese ted t a sea essappearance of the drive letter arrangement. For instance, if the partition having a copy of the OS is not being used to run the computer, it is hidden from the user's view and all drive letters are presented in proper sequential order after the Novelty

Boot request received and signature sector of drive accessed to ascertain serial numbers of two boot partitions. Drive scanned to identify two boot partitions using serial numbers. Selection window requests user selection of either of the

hiding. In the same manner, if the Re-zoom partition is running the computer, the original partition containing the failed OS will be hidden from the users view when the computer is in use. In this case, the original boot partition will be hidden and the drive letter of the original bootwindow requests user selection of either of the

two boot partitions. Boot flag modified to identify boot partition to be used. Non-selected partition hidden.

hidden and the drive letter of the original boot partition (e.g. C) will be assigned to the Re-zoom partition. Thus, the ability to select boot partitions, the hiding of non-selected partitions and drive letter mapping provide a powerful solution that will enable busy people to continue working

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y p p guninterrupted by a computer failure. Such failures can then be addressed at a later time.

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US Patent 6,374,363 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,374,363 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,374,363 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,374,363 (4 of 4)


Patent TitleAdvantage

The user will be able to continue workingMethod for generating a footprint image file for an intelligent backup and restoring system

The user will be able to continue working even when a computer failure occurs, or when a hard drive is repaired, only is the host computer system hard drive is smaller than the capacity of the cartridge media, th th li t ti d t t

Derwent Title

Footprint image file generating method for intelligent backup system involves ascertaining

then the user can replicate entire data to hard drive. The virus checking on all files before the copying is performed when the backup store engine is charged.

N ltsystem, involves ascertaining whether controller is connected to computer system, information related to storage devices and logical partitions of storage device

Novelty

A system registry, an application programming interface and a partition session selector device driver are scanned respectively to ascertain whether arespectively to ascertain whether a controller is connected to computer system, information related to storage devices and information related to the logical partitions of storage devices. A footprint image file is

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generated using the ascertained information.

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US Patent 6,374,366 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,374,366 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,374,366 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,374,366 (4 of 4)



Backup and restoration system eliminatesAutomated drive repair systems and methods

Derwent Title

Backup and restoration system eliminates tremendous down time during crash of hard disk, thus productivity does not suffer when hard disk fails. System diagnosis engine performs initial action of repair of failure in h d di k h i i f h d di k iDerwent Title

Hard disk drive repairing method for computer system, involves acquiring data from database to analyze physical and logical drive changes

hard disk, hence repairing of hard disk is automated.

Novelty

Work is resumed from a backup drive, physical and logical drive changes p ,when failure in a hard disk is detected. A system diagnosis engine acquires data from a database to analyze physical and logical drive changes associated with the system Initial action to be taken in order tosystem. Initial action to be taken in order to repair the hard disk drive, is then output by the system diagnosis engine.

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US Patent 6,385,707 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,385,707 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,385,707 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,385,707 (4 of 4)



Prevents downtime productivity losses andMethod and apparatus for backing up a disk drive upon a system failure

Derwent Title

Files copying method in personal

Prevents downtime productivity losses and assist the user in trouble shooting the failure, repairing the failure and restoring the failed system through a user friendly graphical user interface. Protects user's d t d d ti it i iFiles copying method in personal

computer, involves copying files identified in list of non-copied files to back-up drive, to make back-up drive fully bootable drive

data and productivity upon experiencing a hard disk failure.

Novelty

A list of non-copied files that are locked by p yan operating system during copying of selected files, is generated. The operating system is to shut down, to release the non-copied files. The files identified in the list of non copied files are copied to a back upnon-copied files, are copied to a back-up drive to make the back-up drive a fully bootable drive.

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US Patent 6,430,663 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,430,663 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,430,663 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,430,663 (4 of 4)


Patent TitleAdvantageEnables computer systems to remain operational

Methods for selecting a boot partition and hiding a non-selected partition

Derwent TitleBoot partition selection method e.g. for

p y pfrom the same hard disk drive while repairs are made to the original OS. Provides users with the ability to continue working uninterrupted after a failure to, e.g. the OS stored in the original boot partition. Users will be presented with a seamless

f th d i l tt t Fcomputers, where a of the copy operating system (OS) is stored in two different partitions so a single hard disk drive can select the partition to boot from

Novelty

appearance of the drive letter arrangement. For instance, if the partition having a copy of the OS is not being used to run the computer, it is hidden from the user's view and all drive letters are presented in proper sequential order after the hiding In the same manner if the Re-zoomNovelty

Boot request received and signature sector of drive accessed to ascertain serial numbers of two boot partitions. Drive scanned to identify two boot partitions using serial numbers Selection window

hiding. In the same manner, if the Re-zoom partition is running the computer, the original partition containing the failed OS will be hidden from the users view when the computer is in use. In this case, the original boot partition will be hidden and the drive letter of the original boot using serial numbers. Selection window

requests user selection of either of the two boot partitions. Boot flag modified to identify boot partition to be used. Non-selected partition hidden.

gpartition (e.g. C) will be assigned to the Re-zoom partition. Thus, the ability to select boot partitions, the hiding of non-selected partitions and drive letter mapping provide a powerful solution that will enable busy people to continue working

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uninterrupted by a computer failure. Such failures can then be addressed at a later time.

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US Patent 6,477,629 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,477,629 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,477,629 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,477,629 (4 of 4)



As selected data are backed up in theIntelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same

Derwent Title

As selected data are backed up in the peripheral device, loss of data is prevented when failure in hard drive occurs. Thus, enables the user to continue working from the intelligently backed up data, while the h d d i f il i i d

Intelligent backup and restore system reboots computer system from peripheral storage device when failure occurs in hard drive

hard drive failure is repaired.

Novelty

A SCSI i h l t d i hA SCSI peripheral storage device has a storage media that contains a backup set of data such as default set of boot files and operating system files. The backup set of data are backed up on a schedule to create pa file image footprint. A SCSI host adapter provides an option of rebooting the computer system from the peripheral storage device, when a failure occurs in computer system's hard drive

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computer system s hard drive.

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US Patent 6,532,535 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,532,535 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,532,535 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,532,535 (4 of 4)



Prevents downtime productivity losses andMethod for managing primary and secondary storage devices in an intelligent backup and restoring system

Prevents downtime productivity losses and assists the user in troubleshooting the failure. Protects user's data and productivity upon experiencing a hard disk failure and enhances performance of the computer.

Derwent Title

Auxiliary storage device management method for computer, involves communicating with

Novelty

A partition session selector driver is hooked in a layered drive structure and an application programming interface call is

partition session selector driver through interface call to manage user accessible representation of hard disk drive and RAM

pp p g gperformed to obtain information related to secondary storage devices connected to a computer. The interface call is trapped. Communication is established with the driver directly through the interface call todriver directly through the interface call to manage a user accessible representation of hard disk drive and ROM/RAM.

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US Patent 6,684,229 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,684,229 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,684,229 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,684,229 (4 of 4)



Since the selected data is copied to theMethod of generating a database for use in an intelligent backup and restoring system

Since the selected data is copied to the hard drive/removable media drive, loss of the data is prevented. The tremendous downtime is eliminated when hard disk crash is experienced. The user productivity

l ff h h d di k f ilDerwent Title

Database generating method for backup system, involves defining backup set of data associated with

no longer suffer when hard disk failure occur.

Noveltybackup set of data associated with booting operation of operating system available in primary storage device to be copied hard drive/removable media drive

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A graphical user interface (GUI) to display the information from a database is generated. An user defines a backup set of data associated with booting operation of g pan operating system that is available in a primary storage device to be copied to hard drive/removable media drive, as graphic object of the GUI proximate to each item of displayed information

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displayed information.

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US Patent 6,901,493 (1 of 4)

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US Patent 6,901,493 (2 of 4)

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US Patent 6,901,493 (3 of 4)

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US Patent 6,901,493 (4 of 4)



Protects data of the computer systemMethod for protecting data of a computer system

Derwent Title

Protects data of the computer system, reliably and efficiently. Enables user to continue working from same drive during failure condition, effectively.

Derwent Title

Method of protecting data in computer system, involves booting the system based on data stored in specific partition of drive during

Novelty

The method involves copying operating system stored in primary partition of the h d d i t d titi f thspecific partition of drive, during

failure condition, and restoring selected data to drive after copying and accessing data to resource

hard drive, to secondary partition of the drive, and copying selected data from the drive to storage resource connected to internet. The computer system is booted based on data stored in secondary partition y pof drive, during failure condition. The selected data is restored back to the drive, after copying and accessing data to the resource.

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US Patent 6,934,722 (1 of 3)

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US Patent 6,934,722 (2 of 3)

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US Patent 6,934,722 (3 of 3)



Eliminates tremendous downtime whenMethod of finding application components in an intelligent backup and restoring system

Eliminates tremendous downtime, when hard disk crashes and assists user in trouble shooting the failure, thereby improving user productivity and preventing loss of data.

Derwent Title

Application component identification method e.g. for software component in personal computer involves

Novelty

A link is created for list of application t i t ll d i lin personal computer, involves

searching linked list for target directory for each component of selected application and providing to calling module

components installed in a personal computer. The nested directories are traced to find a target directory for each component in the list. A selected application component is determined in response to p prequest from a calling module having a graphical user interface. The linked list for target directory for each component of the selected application is searched and provided to the module

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provided to the module.

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