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Data providing device, file server device, and data transfer control method

US5687347A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 18, 1995
Grant dateNov 11, 1997
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Expiry dateSep 18, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/10
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The data providing device has a request input means for receiving data request commands from data request sections of a plurality of data request devices, a request-command storing section for storing the data request commands by grouping them for each data request section of each data request device, a data generating section for generating data in accordance with the data request commands, a data transmitting section for transmitting the data generated by the data generating section to the data request sections of the data request devices over a network, and a request-command sequencing control section for transferring the data request commands, received from the respective data request devices and stored in the request-command storing section, to the data generating section one command at a time at predetermined intervals of time in the order in which the requests were received.

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