Global Patent Index - EP 1584011 A2

EP 1584011 A2 20051012 - METADATA BASED FILE SWITCH AND SWITCHED FILE SYSTEM

Title (en)

METADATA BASED FILE SWITCH AND SWITCHED FILE SYSTEM

Title (de)

AUF METADATEN BASIERENDE DATEIVERMITTLUNG UND VERMITTELTES DATEISYSTEM

Title (fr)

COMMUTATEUR DE FICHIER UTILISANT DES METADONNEES ET SYSTEME FICHIER COMMUTE

Publication

EP 1584011 A2 20051012 (EN)

Application

EP 03814952 A 20031218

Priority

  • US 0341202 W 20031218
  • US 33670403 A 20030102
  • US 33678403 A 20030102
  • US 33683203 A 20030102
  • US 33683303 A 20030102
  • US 33683403 A 20030102
  • US 33683503 A 20030102

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2004061605A2] Client computers are decoupled from file servers in a computer network, by placing a network node, also termed a file switch or file switch computer, between the client computers and the file servers. To the client computers, the file switch appears to be a file server having enormous storage capabilities and high throughput. To the file servers, the file switch appears to be a client as it delegates a single transaction received from a client computer to multiple file servers. The file switch aggregates the file server's responses to the client computer's request and presents a single response back to the client computer. The file switch performs this transaction aggregation function in a manner that is transparent to both the client computers and the file servers.

IPC 1-7

G06F 1/00

IPC 8 full level

G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01)

IPC 8 main group level

G06F (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04L 67/1001 (2022.05); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 67/566 (2022.05)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2004061605 A2 20040722; WO 2004061605 A3 20051201; AU 2003300350 A1 20040729; CA 2512312 A1 20040722; CA 2512312 C 20140513; EP 1584011 A2 20051012; EP 1584011 A4 20101006

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0341202 W 20031218; AU 2003300350 A 20031218; CA 2512312 A 20031218; EP 03814952 A 20031218