High-speed batch file transfer method and apparatus, and storage medium in which a program for ...

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US006073180A
Ulllted States Patent [19] [11] Patent Number: 6,073,180
Onoda et al. [45] Date of Patent: Jun. 6, 2000
[54] HIGH-SPEED BATCH FILE TRANSFER 5,737,634 4/1998 Hamano et al. ...................... .. 395/847
METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE 5,887,187 3/1999 Rostoker et al. ................ .. 395/800.29
MEDIUM IN WHICH A PROGRAM FOR FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
EXECUTING THE TRANSFER IS STORED
1-211147 8/1989 Japan .
[75] Inventors: Tetsuya Onoda, Yokosuka; Taro 6-252897 9/1994 Japan.
Yoshikawa; Satoshi Kotabe, both of 7-184024 7/1995 Japan .
Yokohama, all of Japan OTHER PUBLICATIONS
[73] Assignee? Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Craig Partridge, “Gigabit Networking,” Addison—Wesley
Corporatlon, Japan Publishing Company, pp. 195—251, 1994.
_ Craing Partridge, “Gigabit Network” translated by Takeshi
[21] Appl' No" 08/973823 Nishida, Softbank Corp., Tokyo, Jun. 22, 1995 (22. 06. 95),
[22] PCT Filed: Mar. 4, 1997 p. 174—190.
_ Tetsuya Kanada et al., “Netwarp: An Ultra—High—Through
[86] PCT NO" PCT/JP97/00655 put Computer Communications Service”, IEEE Network
§ 371 Date; Nov_ 6, 1997 Jan./Feb., 1997 vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 44—50.
§ 102(e) Date: Nov. 6, 1997 Primary Examiner—Mehmet B. Geckil
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Pennie & Edmonds LLP
[87] PCT Pub. No.: WO97/33227
[57] ABSTRACT
PCT Pub. Date: Sep. 12, 1997
The high speed batch ?le transfer method according to the
[30] Forelgn Apphcatlon Prmnty Data present invention comprises a procedure for transferring ?le
Mar. 7, 1996 [JP] Japan .................................. .. 8-050510 data, using a ?rst storage medium and a second storage
Mar. 7, 1996 [JP] Japan .. 8-050511 medium possessing a faster input/output speed than this ?rst
Jun. 25, 1996 Japan .................................. .. 8-164883 Storage medium, to a Second Storage medium Con
[51] Int. c1.7 .................................................... .. G06F 15/16 ducnng Processmg Such as Compresslon and the hke Wlth
regard to this ?le data within a ?rst storage medium before
[52] US. Cl. ................ .. 709/234; 709/230
_ designating a communication link at the ?rst terminal
[58] Fleld of Search """ " 709/230’ 231’ source; designating a communication link following
709/232’ 233’ 235’ 212; 711/111’ 112’ 117’ completion of processing with regard to the ?le data; and
147’ 148’ 161; 710/31’ 30’ 33’ 35’ 60 batch transferring the ?le data within the second storage
[56] References Cited medium to a network card without'processing this data; and
a mechanism for batch transferring to a second storage
U_S_ PATENT DOCUMENTS medium the aforementioned ?le data transmitted without
processing to the network card, and then transferring this ?le
5,548,587 8/1996 Barley et al.‘ ........................ .. 370/601 data to a ?rst Storage medium While Conducting processing
5,619,499 4/1997 Nakaboyashi ...... .. 370/469 Such as expansion and the like
5,623,606 4/1997 Yokoyama et al. .. 395/250 '
5,687,347 11/1997 Omura et al. ...... .. 395/439
5,734,918 3/1998 Odawara et a1. ................ .. 395/800.01 17 Claims, 23 Drawing Sheets
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