US 2006/0155779 A1 · Contents distribution management system with multi-service type management function and method thereof

Abstract

Provided is a contents distribution management system and method for supporting a plurality of global servers that provide the contents and managing the contents by applying different policies based on the global server and service type of the contents. The inventive system comprises a plurality of global servers for supplying contents to a plurality of local servers, each global server having a large capacity contents library, and the local servers for managing the contents provided from the global servers based on global servers and service types using contents tables, and providing a contents service in response to a contents streaming service demand from a last terminal using a local contents cache.

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Dependent claims

A contents distribution management system with a multi-service type management function, the system comprising:.

a plurality of global servers for supplying contents to a plurality of local servers, each global server having a large capacity contents library;
and
the local servers for managing the contents provided from the global servers based on global servers and service types using contents tables, and providing a contents service in response to a contents streaming service demand from a last terminal using a local contents cache.

A multi-service type management method in a contents distribution management system, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) when an addition of a service is demanded, adding one row or one directory to each of a contents storage policy table, a local contents cache and a storage management table;
(b) when an elimination of a service is demanded, eliminating a corresponding one row or one directory from each of the contents storage policy table, and the local contents cache and the storage management table;
(c) when a change of a service is demanded, changing field values of a corresponding row in each of the contents storage policy table, and the storage management table;
(d) if contents demanded from a last terminal are not presented in the local contents cache, securing a space required by the local contents cache to receive the corresponding contents;
and
(e) preloading a head part of contents to store the head part in the local contents cache.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/312,053Filed 20 Dec 2005

Priority

KR 10-2004-010897320 Dec 2004

Published

13 Jul 2006

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

G06F 16/172
Details of further file system functions: caching, prefetching or hoarding of files
G06F 16/134
File access structures, e.g. distributed indices: distributed indices
G06F 16/182
File system types: distributed file systems
G06F
Computing and data processing

Contents distribution management system with multi-service type management function and method thereof

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Contents distribution management system with multi-service type management function and method thereof

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Abstract

Claims17