System and method of pipeline data access to remote data
US6957219B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 15, 2001 |
| Grant date | Oct 18, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 4, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/06
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A pipeline I/O mechanism in a network redirector that breaks up large files into sections, and sends write (or read) requests for each section in a pipeline fashion to a network file server, without waiting for a response for a previously-sent section. The pipeline I/O mechanism tracks the returned status of each section for which a request was made, so that success or failure of the request is determined as a whole. The pipeline I/O system and method dramatically increase the performance of network remote I/O operations, particularly with file write operations directed to a file on a network file server.
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