Spatial-to-temporal data translation and transmission

• US 20050132415A1
• Filed: 12/11/2003
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Myhrvold, Nathan P., Wood, Lowell L. Jr., Hillis, W. Daniel, Jung, Edward K.Y.
• Application Number:
  US10/734,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20050132415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2312 Data placement on disk arrays data placement in general G06F3/0604
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/232 Content retrieval operation locally within server, e.g. reading video streams from disk arrays storage management G06F3/0604; details of querying and searching of video data from a database G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40

Abstract

A schedule of temporal address unit obtains data transmitted from a spatial data storage using one or more temporal addresses. The temporal address unit obtains the data in response to a request for a content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times;

reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission; and

transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

printing the schedule of content transmission on a medium; and

distributing the medium to one or more sites associated with one or more associated data switch controllers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

transmitting the schedule of content transmission over a data communications link.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

transmitting the schedule of content transmission over a sideband data communications link.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

transmitting the schedule of content transmission to the temporal data storage system.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said transmitting the schedule of content transmission to the temporal data storage system further comprises:

interleaving the schedule of content with other data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said interleaving the schedule of content with other data further comprises:

transmitting the schedule relative to at least one time marker amongst the at least one content.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said interleaving the schedule of content with other data further comprises:

transmitting the schedule amongst the at least one content at a determined interval of time.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

reading substantially complete tracks of the at least one hard disk drive in a defined sequence including at least a sequence starting with an outer track and ending with an inner track.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein said reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

reading substantially complete tracks of the at least one hard disk drive in a defined sequence including at least a sequence starting with an inner track and ending with an outer track.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

reading the at least one content from a first disk drive; and

reading a substantial duplicate of the at least one content from a second disk drive.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein said reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

reading a first content from a first disk drive; and

reading a second content from a second disk drive.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content of a hard disk drive such that an aggregate distance traversed by a hard disk head is practicably minimized.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content of a spatial address device such that an aggregate time to read the at least one content of the spatial address device is practicably minimized.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading a storage of a hard disk drive with a hard drive arm having at least two disk drive heads, at least one of which is dedicated to at least one specific disk drive track.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content from at least one file address storage system.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content from at least one disk address storage system.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content from at least one tape address storage system.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content from at least one substantially static memory address storage system.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein said reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

reading the at least one content from at least one object address storage system.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a second arm of the delay-reclocking drive, the head of the second arm of the delay-reclocking drive being on a same track as the head of the first arm; and

transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a second arm of the delay-reclocking drive, the head of the second arm of the delay-reclocking drive being on a different track than the head of the first arm; and

transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system

24. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a first head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with a second head of the first arm of the delay-reclocking drive; and

transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a first head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with the first head of the first arm of the delay-reclocking drive; and

transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system.

26. A system comprising:

means for publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times;

means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission; and

means for transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

means for printing the schedule of content transmission on a medium; and

means for distributing the medium to one or more sites associated with one or more associated data switch controllers.

28. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

means for transmitting the schedule of content transmission over a data communications link.

29. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

means for transmitting the schedule of content transmission over a sideband data communications link.

30. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for publishing a schedule of content transmission, the schedule identifying the content by one or more times further comprises:

means for transmitting the schedule of content transmission to the temporal data storage system.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein said means for transmitting the schedule of content transmission to the temporal data storage system further comprises:

means for interleaving the schedule of content with other data.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein said means for interleaving the schedule of content with other data further comprises:

means for transmitting the schedule relative to at least one time marker amongst the at least one content.

33. The system of claim 31, wherein said means for interleaving the schedule of content with other data further comprises:

means for transmitting the schedule amongst the at least one content at a determined interval of time.

34. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein said means for reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

means for reading substantially complete tracks of the at least one hard disk drive in a defined sequence including at least a sequence starting with an outer track and ending with an inner track.

36. The system of claim 34, wherein said means for reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

means for reading substantially complete tracks of the at least one hard disk drive in a defined sequence including at least a sequence starting with an inner track and ending with an outer track.

37. The system of claim 34, wherein said means for reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from a first disk drive; and

means for reading a substantial duplicate of the at least one content from a second disk drive.

38. The system of claim 34, wherein said means for reading the at least one content from at least one hard disk drive further comprises:

means for reading a first content from a first disk drive; and

means for reading a second content from a second disk drive.

39. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content of a hard disk drive such that an aggregate distance traversed by a hard disk head is practicably minimized.

40. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content of a spatial address device such that an aggregate time to read the at least one content of the spatial address device is practicably minimized.

41. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading a storage of a hard disk drive with a hard drive arm having at least two disk drive heads, at least one of which is dedicated to at least one specific disk drive track.

42. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from at least one file address storage system.

43. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from at least one disk address storage system.

44. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from at least one tape address storage system.

45. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from at least one substantially static memory address storage system.

46. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for reading at least one content from at least one spatial data storage system in a fashion independent of the schedule of content transmission further comprises:

means for reading the at least one content from at least one object address storage system.

47. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

means for receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

means for writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

means for reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a second arm of the delay-reclocking drive, the head of the second arm of the delay-reclocking drive being on a same track as the head of the first arm; and

means for transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system.

48. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

means for receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

means for writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

means for reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with a head of a second arm of the delay-reclocking drive, the head of the second arm of the delay-reclocking drive being on a different track than the head of the first arm; and

means for transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system

49. The system of claim 26, wherein said means for transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

means for receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

means for writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a first head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

means for reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with a second head of the first arm of the delay-reclocking drive; and

means for transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system.

50. The system of claim 26, wherein said transmitting the at least one content to a temporal data storage system in accord with the published schedule further comprises:

means for receiving a portion of the at least one content from the spatial data storage system with a delay-reclocking drive;

means for writing the portion of the at least one content to the delay-reclocking drive with a first head of a first arm of the delay-reclocking drive;

means for reading the portion of the at least one content from the delay-reclocking drive with the first head of the first arm of the delay-reclocking drive; and

means for transmitting the portion of the at least one content to the temporal data storage system.