Simultaneous Image Distribution and Archiving

• US 20140344533A1
• Filed: 02/17/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rapiscan Systems Incorporated (OSI Systems Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Rapiscan Systems Incorporated (OSI Systems Incorporated)
• Inventors: Liu, Felix YaikNan, Wu, Zhongming, Wong, Benny Taiklin, Jeppesen, Ron
• Granted Patent: US 9,870,150 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0608 Saving storage space on storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/60 Memory management

Abstract

The present specification discloses a storage system for enabling the substantially concurrent storage and access of data that has three dimensional images processed to identify a presence of a threat item. The system includes a source of data, a temporary storage memory for receiving and temporarily storing the data, a long term storage, and multiple workstations adapted to display three dimensional images. The temporary storage memory is adapted to support multiple file input/output operations executing substantially concurrently, including the receiving of data, transmitting of data to workstations, and transmitting of data to long term storage.

Claims

1. A storage system for enabling the substantially concurrent storage and access of data, comprising:

a source of data, wherein said data comprises a three dimensional image wherein said three dimensional image has been processed to identify a presence of a threat item;

a temporary storage memory for receiving and temporarily storing said data, wherein said temporary storage memory is adapted to support multiple file input/output operations executing substantially concurrently and wherein said data is received from said source of data via one of said multiple file input/output operations executing substantially concurrently;

at least two workstations for accessing said data, wherein each of said workstations is configured to access the temporary storage memory through one of said multiple file input/output operations executing substantially concurrently; and

a long term storage system for accessing and storing said data, wherein said long term storage system is configured to access the temporary storage memory through one of said multiple file input/output operations executing substantially concurrently.

2. The storage system of claim 1 wherein said temporary storage memory is configured to receive data from said source of data at a data transfer rate equal to or greater than 1.6 gigabytes per second.

3. The storage system of claim 1 wherein said temporary storage memory is a RAM buffer having a size of at least 32 gigabytes.

4. The storage system of claim 1 wherein each of said workstations can access said data at a speed of at least 100 megabytes per second.

5. The storage system of claim 1 wherein said temporary storage memory is adapted to receive data from said source of data via a first file input/output operation, transmit data to a first workstation via a second file input/output operation, transmit data to a second workstation via a third file input/output operation, and transmit data to the long term storage via a fourth file input/output operation, wherein each of said first, second, third, and fourth file input/output operations executes concurrently.

6. The storage system of claim 5 wherein each of said file input/output operations is executed via a FTP server thread.

7. The storage system of claim 5 wherein said fourth file input/output operation occurs at a rate of at least 200 megabytes per second.

8. The storage system of claim 7 wherein said second and third file input/output operations occur at an average rate of at least 70 megabytes per second.

9. The storage system of claim 1 wherein, upon receiving a request from a workstation for data that is not present in said temporary storage memory, said temporary storage memory is adapted to retrieve said requested data from the long term storage and transmit the requested data to the workstation.

10. The storage system of claim 1 wherein, if said data is not associated with an alarm or a threat, the temporary storage memory transmits the data to long term storage and does not retain said data for access by the workstations.

11. The storage system of claim 1 wherein said temporary storage memory receives said data into a TCP offload engine.

12. The storage system of claim 11 wherein said TCP offload engine receives data from an Ethernet switch.

13. The storage system of claim 12 wherein said Ethernet switch is at least a 10 Gb Ethernet switch.

14. The storage system of claim 1 wherein said temporary storage memory transmits data to the workstations via an Ethernet switch.

15. The storage system of claim 14 wherein said Ethernet switch is at least a 10 Gb Ethernet switch.

16. The storage system of claim 1 wherein each of said workstations is configured to display 3-D images.

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