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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2005
Patrick Bozeman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott Eric Colville, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mukul Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Edward Lovinger, Seattle, WA (US);
Ravisankar V. Pudipeddi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ramesh Shankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Supriya Wickrematillake, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrick Bozeman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott Eric Colville, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mukul Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Edward Lovinger, Seattle, WA (US);
Ravisankar V. Pudipeddi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ramesh Shankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Supriya Wickrematillake, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for organizing and sorting targets received in a referral response and for realizing a target fail-back and a target priority policy in a distributed file system is provided. In one embodiment, a sorting method includes receiving a referral response in the form of a list of targets that are sorted into bounded sets. Having a sorted referral response in bounded sets provides a basis for implementing a target fail-back and a target priority policy. The computer system may select a target from a sorted list of targets sorted according to site-cost and/or target priority. Then, the computer system may determine if the set target is associated with a more preferred target when compared to all available targets in the sorted list and if not, switch back to a more preferred target.