Patent ID: 7194532
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A distributed file management method comprising: a management information generating step of generating management information about disks that can be opened by a plurality of peers connected through a network; an access request step of a first peer selecting another peer which opens a disk listed in the management information to request a file to be stored or read; and an access execution step of executing the storage of the file or the read of the file in response to the storage request or the read request from the first peer; further comprising a cache process step of acquiring information about a peer which will cache the resources from the cache management information of a registry server connected via the network when resources are to be downloaded through the network, and requesting the peer described in the information to download a file to acquire the cached resources; wherein in the cache process step, when the information about the peer which will cache the resources cannot be acquired from the cache management information, after a peer which provides the resources is requested to download a file, the information about the peer which caches the resources is registered in the cache management information.