File sharing system

• US 8,458,281 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2010
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Osaki, Yoshiro, Kamijima, Yuki, Satoh, Naoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Backer, Firmin
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, JONATHAN A
• Application Number:
  US12/723,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20100332611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,180 Days
• Field of Search: 709/212, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/212
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support

Abstract

To realize efficient processing regarding accesses to files. A remote controlling processing apparatus 14 of a file sharing system 10 is connected via a network 15 to a controlled processing apparatus 12 including a file storage part 17 in which a plurality of files 1, 2, 3 . . . are stored. Further, the remote controlling processing apparatus 14 includes: an access request generating part 19 generating access requests to the files 1, 2, 3 . . . in the file storage part 17; an access request storage part 22 in which the plural generated access requests are sequentially stored; and an access request notifying part 25 integrating plural ones of the access requests in the access request storage part 22 based on a storage status in the access request storage part 22 to notify the integrated access request to the controlled processing apparatus 12.

Claims

1. A file sharing system, comprising:

a first information processing apparatus including a file storage part configured to store a plurality of files; and

a second information processing apparatus connected to the first information processing apparatus via a network and configured to access each of the files in the file storage part,

wherein the second information processing apparatus comprises;

an access request generating part configured to generate access requests to the files in the file storage part;

an access request storage part configured to sequentially store a plurality of access requests generated by the access request generating part;

an access request notifying part configured to integrate two or more of the plurality of access requests in the access request storage part based on a storage status in the access request storage part to notify the integrated access request to the first information processing apparatus; and

a virtual access responding part sending a virtual response notice in which the access requests sequentially stored in the access request storage part are virtualized as already notified to the first information processing apparatus, to the access request generating part in response to the access requests.

2. The file sharing system according to claim 1,

wherein, when a number of specific access requests in the access request storage part exceeds a threshold value, the access request notifying part integrates the specific access requests in the access request storage part to notify the integrated access request to the first information processing apparatus.

3. The file sharing system according to claim 1,

wherein the first information processing apparatus comprises a file access executing part configured to execute accesses to the files in the file storage part, based on the integrated access request notified by the access request notifying part.

4. The file sharing system according to claim 1,

wherein the access requests generated by the access request generating part are each a read request, a write request, an open request, or a close request to any of the files in the file storage part, and

wherein, when integrating the write requests or the read requests as the access requests to notify the integrated access request, the access request notifying part integrates one open request and one write or read request or more to notify the integrated request.

5. The files sharing system according to claim 4,

wherein the second information processing apparatus further comprises:

a read data storage part configured to store data read from the files in the file storage part in response to the read request from the access request notifying part; and

a file access skipping part configured to read corresponding data from the read data storage part, when the read request of the file, in the file storage part, containing the data read into the read data storage part is generated again by the access request generating part.

6. The file sharing system according to claim 5,

wherein the second information processing apparatus further comprises:

a file-related information detecting part configured to detect information related to the file whose data is read from the file storage part in response to the read request from the access request notifying part; and

a data storage selecting part configured to select whether or not the data read from the target file of the read request is to be stored in the read data storage part, based on a result of the detection by the file-related information detecting part.

7. The file sharing system according to claim 6,

wherein the file-related information detecting part detects size of the file and/or kind of the file as the information related to the file;

and

wherein the data storage selecting part selects whether or not the data read from the target file of the read request is to be stored in the read data storage part, based on the detected size and/or kind of the file.

8. The file sharing system according to claim 4,

wherein the second information processing apparatus further comprises an access status monitoring part monitoring an access status of each of the files in the file storage part;

and

wherein the access request notifying part comprises a close request notifying part notifying the first information processing apparatus of a close request of a file that is selected from plural files in an open state in the file storage part, based on a result of the monitoring by the access status monitoring part.

9. The file sharing system according to claim 8,

wherein the close request notifying part notifies the close request of the selected file when the number of the files in the open state in the file storage part exceeds a threshold value.

10. The file sharing system according to claim 8,

wherein the access status monitoring part detects a read or write frequency of each of the files in the file storage part, and

wherein the close request notifying part selects a file whose close request is to be notified, based on the read or write frequency.

11. The file sharing system according to claim 8,

wherein the access status monitoring part detects a least recently opened file from the plural files in the open state in the file storage part;

and

wherein the close request notifying part selects the least recently opened file as the file whose close request is to be notified.

12. The file sharing system according to claim 8,

wherein the access status monitoring part obtains at least one of a file attribute, a file name, and a kind of file as information related to each of the files in the file storage part, and

wherein the close request notifying part selects the file whose close request is to be notified, based on the obtained information related to the files.

13. The file sharing system according to claim 8,

wherein the access monitoring part detects file names of the files in the open state in the file storage part and times at which the files are opened, and

wherein the close request notifying part selects the file whose close request is to be notified, based on the detected file names and times at which the files are opened.

14. The file sharing system according to claim 8,

wherein the access status monitoring part detects data size of data that is read or written from/to each of the files in the file storage part during a predetermined time, and

wherein the close request notifying part selects the file whose close request is to be notified, based on the detected data size.