发明名称 |
Inexpensive, scalable and open-architecture media server |
摘要 |
Multi-media servers provide clients with streaming data requiring soft real-time guarantee and static data requiring a large amount of storage space. The servers use a pull-mode protocol to communicate with clients through a real-time network. Separate data and control channels enhance the soft real-time capability of the server. The data channel conforms to open standard protocol. A switched data link layer for the control channel permits separate intrahost control messages that may be multicast and broadcast. The distributed file system selects a specific data block size based upon the compression technique employed to enhance soft real-time guarantee. A hierarchal data structure combined with merging empty data blocks minimizes disk fragmentation. Data blocks are striped across multiple disks to improve disk utilization. A local buffer and a queue for both read and write requests provides support for simultaneous read and write data streams.
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申请公布号 |
US6101547(A) |
申请公布日期 |
2000.08.08 |
申请号 |
US19980114771 |
申请日期 |
1998.07.14 |
申请人 |
PANASONIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
发明人 |
MUKHERJEE, SARIT;KAMEL, IBRAHIM;BUSHMITCH, DENNIS;AREF, WALID G. |
分类号 |
G06F13/10;G06F13/00;G06F15/16;G06F17/30;H04L29/06;H04N5/00;H04N7/173;(IPC1-7):G06F15/16 |
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G06F13/10 |
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