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Storage server system including ranking of data source

US6446141B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 25, 1999
Grant dateSep 3, 2002
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Expiry dateMar 25, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0683
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A storage server comprising: a processing unit, a bus system coupled with the processing unit, including a plurality of slots, slots in the plurality of slots including interfaces to respective data stores; a communication interface; and an operating system coupled with the processing unit the operating system including: logic controlling transfers among the plurality of slots over the bus system according to an internal format, logic for translating a storage transaction received over the communication interface into the internal format, and logic for configuring the plurality of slots according to a configuration data.

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