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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2001
Johannes Henricus Maria Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Nicolaas Lambert, Eindhoven, NL;
Ronald Marcel Tol, Eindhoven, NL;
Adrianus Johannes Maria Denissen, Eindhoven, NL;
Marcel Lambertus Leonardus Bijsterveld, Eindhoven, NL;
Hong LI, Eindhoven, NL;
Robert Jochemsen, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Henricus Maria Korst, Eindhoven, NL;
Nicolaas Lambert, Eindhoven, NL;
Ronald Marcel Tol, Eindhoven, NL;
Adrianus Johannes Maria Denissen, Eindhoven, NL;
Marcel Lambertus Leonardus Bijsterveld, Eindhoven, NL;
Hong Li, Eindhoven, NL;
Robert Jochemsen, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A system () like a video on demand server has a storage medium () with a number of files () from which data can be fetched or in which data can be stored. A file contains a number of clusters () and each cluster contains a number of storage sectors () that are physically successively organized on the storage medium. When a new stream is requested, either for reading or writing, a block size () is determined for the new stream. The block size is large enough to support the rate of the stream and is chosen such that a cluster can be read with an integer number of blocks by evenly partitioning the size of the cluster into the size of the blocks reading the cluster.