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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2001
Clement G. Taylor, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Danny Chin, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Jesse S. Lerman, Princeton, NJ (US);
Steven Zack, Burlington, NJ (US);
William Ashley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Clement G. Taylor, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Danny Chin, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Jesse S. Lerman, Princeton, NJ (US);
Steven Zack, Burlington, NJ (US);
William Ashley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sedna Patent Services, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A storage server for efficiently retrieving data from a plurality of disks in response to user access requests. The server comprises a plurality of processors coupled to disjoint subsets of disks, and a custom non-blocking packet switch for routing data from the processors to users. By tightly coupling the processors to disks and employing an application-specific switch, congestion and disk scheduling bottlenecks are minimized. By making efficient use of bandwidth, the architecture is also capable of receiving real-time data streams from a remote source and distributing these data streams to requesting users. The architecture is particularly well suited to video-on-demand systems in which a video server stores a library of movies and users submit requests to view particular movies.