Patent ID: 9626332
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing most frequently referenced data chunks, the method comprising: maintaining, at a central storage server, reference frequency information for each of a first plurality of data chunks currently stored locally, wherein the central storage server is to archive the data chunks collected from a plurality of remote devices that have been geographically deployed and associated with one or more local area networks (LANs), to provide local storage for a plurality of clients; determining a plurality of data chunks most frequently referenced by a first of the remote devices based on the frequency reference information associated with the first remote device; and transmitting one or more data chunks of the most frequently referenced data chunks to the first remote device to be cached therein, such that a local client of the first remote device can access the cached data chunks without having to access the central storage server.