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Article: Bulgarian Inventor Develops Shared Storage System Accessing Multiple Computers
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 11, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Ivan I. Georgiev of Sofia, Bulgaria, has developed a method for shared storage journaling.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple computers have access to a shared storage system. The computers negotiate with each other for access rights (e.g., read or write) to regions of the storage system. After negotiating for permission to modify a location (e.g., a range of addresses) of the shared storage system, a given computer copies data from the shared storage system into its own corresponding cache. The given computer granted the permission then modifies the data in its cache while maintaining a separate journal of corresponding changes to ...