Patent ID: 9336275
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: one or more storage devices storing raw data in data block structures; a storage server configured to respond to input/output (I/O) requests directly from one or more database servers, but not to respond to database commands received directly from database clients; wherein the I/O requests are requests for raw data from specified data block structures; wherein the storage server is configured to respond to the I/O requests from the one or more database servers by reading data blocks from or writing data blocks to the one or more storage devices; and a database server, connected via a network to the storage server; wherein the storage server acts as an intermediary for all data transfers between the database server and the one or more storage devices; wherein the database server is configured to respond to database commands received directly from one or more database clients, but the database server is not capable of directly responding to I/O requests for raw data; wherein the database server is configured to perform: wherein the storage server is further configured to perform: wherein the database server is further configured to perform: