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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1999
James B. Armstrong, Princeton, NJ (US);
Robert G. Dandrea, Newtown, PA (US);
DIVA Systems Corporation, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of accessing an array of storage devices comprising the steps of analyzing a data request from a user to determine the optimal storage device from which data should be retrieved, assigning the user to a first group of users that will access the optimal storage device in a first time period, retrieving data to fulfill the data request from the optimal storage device, and buffering the data in a buffer. Thereafter, the method assigns the user to a second group of users that will be supplied data from the buffer in a second time period, and then retrieving the data from the buffer and transmitting the data to the user to fulfill the data request.