Patent ID: 9390055
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A network switching interface for a distributed digital data storage system, said network switching interface comprising: a plurality of network interface ports for interfacing, over a digital network, a plurality of digital data storage devices for storing data and one or more client devices that send memory requests, each of said memory requests relating to a portion of said data and comprising a data address associated with the distributed digital data system, wherein said data address comprises therein embedded information that identifies one or more characteristics of said portion; a physical mapping database, comprising a data address index in accessible memory storage for associating each said data address with a given digital data storage device communicatively connected to the network interface ports; and a switching device that routes a given memory request to a given digital data storage device associated in the data address index with the given data address of said given memory request; wherein said data is redistributed amongst at least one of said plurality of digital data storage devices based on said one or more characteristics; wherein at least one of said plurality of digital data storage devices sends unsolicited data address resolution commands for updating the data address index upon said redistribution of any of the data.