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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2004
Hristo Iankov Bojinov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hiroshi Ishii, Foster City, CA (US);
Robert Paul Wood, San Mateo, CA (US);
Serge Plotkin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hristo Iankov Bojinov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hiroshi Ishii, Foster City, CA (US);
Robert Paul Wood, San Mateo, CA (US);
Serge Plotkin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The preferred embodiment of the invention distributes, and effectively caches, information by inserting it into file handles that the proxy sends to clients. This information can be used to improve performance by eliminating the need for the proxy to generate additional requests to the server to establish file identity. The distributed information can also be intended to improve security, for example, by allowing the proxy to encode into the file handle a session key that expires after some amount of time.