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System and corresponding method for providing redundant storage of a data file over a computer network

  • US 20060218284A1
  • Filed: 06/13/2005
  • Published: 09/28/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1996
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing redundant storage of data files over a computer network, the system comprising:

  • server computers, each server computer being configured to (a) make basic network services of a standard network protocol available therefrom, and (b) store the data files; and

    client computers that are not directly connected to each other or to the server computers over the computer network, wherein at least one of the client computers is configured to store the data files at each server computer by (a) establishing a network connection between the client computer and the server computer over the computer network and (b) using only the basic network services available at said each server computer, further wherein one of the client computers is configured to retrieve the data files from any one of the server computers by (a) establishing a network connection between the client computer and the server computer over the computer network and (b) using only the basic network services available at said any one of the server computers, wherein the client computer also acts simultaneously and independently as a server computer and in this capacity may be connected to another client computer or another client computer acting as a server computer.

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