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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2006
Dietmar Hepper, Hannover, DE;
Hui LI, Hannover, DE;
Meinolf Blawat, Hannover, DE;
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
In current Distributed Storage Systems, applications may determine the device on which data shall be stored. The invention provides a method for automatically selecting an individual storage device within a DSS. A method for automatically classifying a node in a network comprises determining data classes, automatically classifying data of said data classes stored on a node, determining the amount of stored data per data class, calculating data dominance values for each of the data classes, receiving a request that indicates a data type according to one of said data classes, and providing said dominance value according to the requested data class. Further, a method for automatically organizing nodes in a network comprises receiving a request for storing data of a particular data type, transmitting the request to storage nodes, receiving from the storage nodes respective dominance values, and selecting the node with the highest dominance value for storing the data.