Patent ID: 7610383
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A data-object-related-request routing method employed in a distributed electronic-data storage system comprising a routing component and component data storage systems, the data-object routing method comprising: computing, by the routing component of the distributed electronic-data storage system, a number of ranks for the number of component data storage systems based on data contained in the data object and, for each rank, on an identifier of the corresponding component data storage system that identifies a set of data stored in the component data storage system; selecting, by the routing component of the distributed electronic-data storage system, one or more target component data storage systems based on the computed ranks for each operational component data storage system within the distributed electronic-data storage system; and directing, by the routing component of the distributed electronic-data storage system, a data-object-related request to the selected one or more target component data storage systems.