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US 6,108,697 AGranted
One-to-many disk imaging transfer over a network
AssigneePowerQuest Corporation
InventorsRobert S Raymond, Blaine S Dennis, Eric J Ruff
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AssigneePowerQuest Corporation
InventorsRobert S Raymond, Blaine S Dennis, Eric J Ruff
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Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and signal formats are provided for transferring disk images from a transmitting computer to one or more downloading computers. The transfer is done in a manner that allows a technician to start the download to one computer while preparing a second computer for downloading or shutting down a third computer after it has finished downloading the disk image. The computers need not wait for the beginning of a data stream but can instead join the download at specified points within the data stream. This reduces the time spent waiting to begin the download, particularly when the disk image being transferred is large. Compression and connection selection may be performed in response to changes in network performance. Image file packing and error management techniques may also be used, as well as on-the-fly file system instance manipulations.
A method of transferring disk images from one computer to a plurality of computers, comprising the steps of:
A computer system for transferring disk images from one computer to a plurality of computers, the system comprising:
A computer storage medium having a configuration that represents data and instructions which will cause at least a portion of a computer system to perform method steps for transferring disk images from one computer to a plurality of computers, the method comprising the steps of:
A series of data stream signal repetitions embodied in a network connection for transferring disk image data, each repetition of the data stream signal having a beginning, an end, and at least one join point between the beginning and the end, and each repetition of the data stream signal also containing disk image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.