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Data repository and method for promoting network storage of data

  • US 7,287,030 B2
  • Filed: 01/07/2004
  • Issued: 10/23/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method by which a client connected to a network over a lower speed connection may provide higher speed access to a data item for application processing than is possible over the relatively low speed connection to the network, the method comprising:

  • determining a digital fingerprint of the data item;

    testing for whether the data item is already stored in a repository by comparing the digital fingerprint of the data item to digital fingerprints of data items already in the repository;

    only if the data item is not already in the repository, transferring the data item over the lower speed connection from the client to the repository, the repository being connected to the network over a higher speed connection than the client;

    making a higher speed connection between an application server and the data repository;

    executing an application on the application server to process the data item stored on the data repository; and

    returning at least some of the processed data to the client across the lower speed connection.

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