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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2002
Raju C. Bopardikar, Cambridge, MA (US);
Adrian R. Braine, Newbury, GB;
Autodesk Canada Inc., Montreal, CA;
Abstract
Video data in the form of a plurality of digitized frames, is stored on a plurality of magnetic disks. Each image frame is striped across a plurality of disks and redundant parity information, derived from the stripes, is written to an additional disk. Disk failure is detected and in response to this detection missing data is regenerated from the parity information. This allows the transfer of video data in real time to be maintained for output so that the system remains operational. While data is being read in real time, derived from regenerated data, the regenerated data is written to an operational disk, thereby reprotecting the data in the event of a subsequent failure. Frame supplied to output are labelled as being protected or unprotected and application programs may respond to this status information as considered appropriate.