Patent ID: 8176357
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for managing client requests in a computer network, comprising: a client, a server having a plurality of files, and a computer network connecting the client and the server, wherein the server is responsive to client file requests from the client for a file and each file has an associated time stamp indicating the time at which a request was made to create the file; a storage system for storing files, wherein the storage system is responsive to internal-retry requests and fail-fast requests for the files from the server; and wherein the server includes software that, in response to a client file request, instructs the server to determine an elapsed time since a request was made to create the file, to make an internal re-try request for the file from the storage system if the elapsed time is less than or equal to a pre-determined limit, and to make a fail-fast request for the file from the storage system if the elapsed time is greater than the pre-determined limit.