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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank B Schmuck, Campbell, CA (US);
Robert Curran, West Hurley, NY (US);
James Christopher Wyllie, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Boaz Shmueli, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707201 ; 707200 ;
Abstract
A computer system having a shared disk file system running on multiple computers each having their own instance of an operating system and being coupled for parallel data disks. One of the computers serves as a metadata node and manages metadata for parallel read and write actions for a particular file. Metadata is transferred from and to this file from the other computers via this medadata node computer.