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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1996
Philip N Garfinkle, Herndon, VA (US);
Sawat Hansirisawat, Fairfax, VA (US);
Michael McDonald, Herndon, VA (US);
James W Winter, Waldorf, MD (US);
Network Imaging Corporation, Herndon, VA (US);
Abstract
A data processing system includes client workstations, mass storage devices, input-output peripherals, and a server subsystem. The server subsystem includes a security server that accepts user information from a workstation and grants a security ticket to the workstation in response to the user's authorization level. The server subsystem also includes a volume manager that controls object storage to, and retrieval from, the mass storage subsystem. The volume manager caches objects related to a requested object. A domain server maintains a server map relating server names to physical network addresses, a volume map relating volume names to a corresponding volume manager, and a family map relating volume family names to a corresponding volume manager.