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Title:
DATA STORAGE DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2710550
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To provide a device and a method for efficiently distributing and storing plural data items on plural detachable storage media for respective subjects.
CONSTITUTION: A first storage mechanism is prepared so as to store the data items on an RMI. A means for reserving a storage area on the other RMI in the case that storage can not be performed by the first storage mechanism is provided. A factor larger than '1' is multiplied to the actual size of the data item so as to prepare data for indicating the size of a storage tree area to be reserved and a multiplication mechanism for performing the multiplication is connected to the first storage mechanism. In the case that the first storage mechanism can not store a relating data item, the data item is stored on the different RMI where the free area is reserved and the successively generated relating data items are stored in the reserved storage free area.


Inventors:
Robert Neil Carter
Howard Alan Disney
Kevin Scott Goldsmith
William Otto Bomasca
Application Number:
JP4999494A
Publication Date:
February 10, 1998
Filing Date:
February 24, 1994
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Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
International Classes:
G06F3/06; G06F17/30; G11B7/013; G11B27/00; G06F12/00; G11B27/11; (IPC1-7): G06F12/00; G06F17/30; G11B7/013
Domestic Patent References:
JP3266041A
JP4116737A
JP63300316A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kiyoshi Goda (2 outside)