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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2007
Makoto Goto, Hiroshima, JP;
Makoto Goto, Hiroshima, JP;
Other;
Abstract
It is an objective of the present invention to provide a solution to automatically remove the redundancy among the user's files, and to efficiently use the memory area of the server without placing an unreasonable cost on a service provider and on a user. In order to attain the above objective, a file storage apparatus, which replaces a bit sequence, which matches a bit sequence correlated with a code and managed, with said code, thereby performing compression and storage of a file correlated with the user identification information and inputted, comprising a distribution unit for management cost, which performs distribution of management cost with respect to each user identification information, is provided. Here, the management cost for code and/or bit sequence corresponds to cost necessary for storage or maintenance of the code and/or bit sequence. Examples of the cost include cost for size of required storage area, and cost for required operation of CPU.