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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank B Schmuck, Campbell, CA (US);
Anthony J Zlotek, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Boaz Shmueli, Haifa, IL;
Benjamin Mandler, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Zvi Yosef Yehudai, Haifa, IL;
William A Kish, Millerton, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710200 ; 707 10 ; 709226 ;
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 sharing access to files residing on network attached shared disks. A metadata node manages file metadata for parallel read and write actions. Metadata tokens are used for controlled access to the metadata and initial selection and changing of the metadata node.