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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tohru Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Itagaki, Yokohama, JP;
Shinsuke Mitsuma, Machida, JP;
Terue Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Noriko Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An information providing system and method, including a computer, for providing time taken to read a file, which includes an acquisition unit. The acquisition unit obtains information on a recording position of a file when the file is recorded in a storage device. A recording unit writes information on the obtained recording position to an index referred to access the file. A calculation unit calculates time taken to read the file using the information on the recording position written to the index in response to a request to obtain the time taken to read the file, and providing the calculated time to a requester that requests the time.