The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local filesystem to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.
Kang pointed out that Genachowski was dealt a setback when a court decision last April supported Comcast's ability to manage a notorious file-sharing application called BitTorrent that was slowing down the system.
The America Invents Act, signed into law in September, will transition the patent application process from the first-to-invent system, to the new first-to-file system.