Sandisk Il Ltd.

Aryeh Mergi

Eyal Bychkov

Aran Ziv

Itzhak Pomerantz

A method includes exchanging information between a local web-server of a local storage device and a remote web-server through a network. The exchange of the information is initiated autonomously by the local storage device upon a determination by the local web server that the information is not stored at the local storage device.

Autonomous local web-server updating

A data-processing system includes a storage device for running a local web-server residing in the storage device; a host device for connecting to the storage device; and an exchanging mechanism, residing in the host device, for exchanging information autonomously between the local web-server and a remote web-server connected to the host device. Preferably, the local web-server serves a host application, upon a host-application request for information when the local web-server cannot obtain the information, by retrieving the information autonomously from the remote web-server via an LWSA. Preferably, the exchanging mechanism exchanges data packets between the local web-server and the remote web-server. Preferably, the storage device initiates the exchanging of the information upon indication of available bandwidth for network communication. More preferably, the storage device prioritizes the exchanging of the information according to a protocol that takes into account statistics of data usage according to temporal parameters of the data usage.

Method and apparatus to exchange information with a local storage device

A storage device includes a local memory, wherein data are locally stored, and a controller that is operative, in accordance with a reduction policy, to modify the data on the local memory, thereby freeing storage area on the local memory.

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Aryeh Mergi