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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1999
Clodoaldo Barrera, Morgan Hills, CA (US);
Daniel Alexander Ford, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Saugata Guha, Fremont, CA (US);
Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Jaishankar Moothedath Menon, San Jose, CA (US);
Harsha Ramalingam, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of increasing the performance of computer networks, especially networks connecting users to the Web, are provided. Performance is increased by reducing the latency the client experiences between sending a request to the server and receiving a response. A connection is obtained by a client device to the network target node addressed by a physical I/O address, to more quickly respond to requests for resource files on data storage devices. This enhancement may be implemented by connecting the controller of the data storage device directly to the network, to reduce the latency involved in mapping the logical I/O address into a physical I/O address. In that case the requested resource file is sent to the client directly by the data storage device controller, thus saving time otherwise spent in sending the request and data between computer network components.