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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2004
Geoffrey S. Barrall, Berkshire, GB;
Trevor Willis, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Simon Benham, Berkshire, GB;
Michael Cooper, Berkshire, GB;
Jonathan Meyer, Surrey, GB;
Christopher J. Aston, Bucks, GB;
John Winfield, Berkshire, GB;
Geoffrey S. Barrall, Berkshire, GB;
Trevor Willis, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Simon Benham, Berkshire, GB;
Michael Cooper, Berkshire, GB;
Jonathan Meyer, Surrey, GB;
Christopher J. Aston, Bucks, GB;
John Winfield, Berkshire, GB;
BlueArc UK Limited, Bracknell, Berkshire, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus in one embodiment handles service requests over a network, wherein the network utilizes a protocol. In this aspect, the apparatus includes: a network subsystem for receiving and transmitting network service requests using the network protocol; and a service subsystem, coupled to the network subsystem, for satisfying the network service requests. At least one of the network subsystem and the service subsystem is hardware-implemented; the other of the network subsystem and the service subsystem may optionally be hardware-accelerated. A variety of related embodiments are also provided, including file servers and web servers.