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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsClodoaldo Barrera, Daniel Alexander Ford, Saugata Guha, Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer, Jaishankar Moothedath Menon, Harsha Ramalingam
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Systems and methods of increasing the performance of computer networks, especially networks connecting users to the Web, are provided. Performance is increased by reducing the latency the client experiences between sending a request to the server and receiving a response. A connection is obtained by a client device to the network target node addressed by a physical I/O address, to more quickly respond to requests for resource files on data storage devices. This enhancement may be implemented by connecting the controller of the data storage device directly to the network, to reduce the latency involved in mapping the logical I/O address into a physical I/O address. In that case the requested resource file is sent to the client directly by the data storage device controller, thus saving time otherwise spent in sending the request and data between computer network components.
A system utilizing a universal-resource locator (URL) addressing scheme for efficiently accessing resource files on a data storage device attached to a networked server system, comprising:
A computer readable medium containing software code for causing a server to send a browser page including a pre-resolved resource file physical I/O address to a client computer, such that a data storage device having an assigned target node adapted for accessing a requested resource file on said data storage device directly, through the physical I/O address of the resource file, can transfer the requested resource file between the data storage device and client network access equipment without having to perform an address mapping step in order to resolve the resource file physical I/O address.
A computer readable memory containing software code capable of causing a server computer to send a message including a hyper-text object to a client across a network, said message including a resource file physical I/O address associated with said hyper-text object, said resource file physical I/O address pointing to a resource file on a data storage device operatively connected to said network without requiring said resource file to be routed through said server.
A computer readable memory containing programming code capable of causing a first computer operatively connected to a local area network (LAN) which in turn is operatively connected to both a data storage device and a wide area network (WAN), to send a message across said WAN to a second computer;
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