Patent ID: 6819627
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for storing data on a bulk memory using a computer system, which computer system supplies the data to the bulk memory for storage on the basis of the rules of a file system, which bulk memory is of the random access type, in which the data are organized in data blocks, where the data blocks are provided for storage on the bulk memory on the basis of the rules of a file system on a computer system supplying the data, where the data blocks contain organization information, arranged at the start and end of a data block, for managing the data blocks and contain the user information which is to be stored, where cohesive user information areas can be distributed over a plurality of data blocks which are then concatenated to one another using their organization information, where the related user information in one or more data blocks is separated from the organization information and is continuously compiled and, in a subsequent step, compressed using a data compression method, whereupon the compressed volume of data obtained in this manner is split into individual compressed-data packets preselected in terms of their data length, where the compressed-data packets are stored in compressed-data blocks with organization information for management on the bulk memory, organized on the basis of the rules of the file system on the computer system delivering the data, where a plurality of related compressed-data blocks are stored on the bulk memory with cohesive compressed data, distributed over a plurality of compressed-data blocks concatenated to one another using their organization information.