Patent ID: 7188147
Filing Date: 2007-03-06
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A networked optical storage server configured to couple to a plurality of users across a network; and the networked optical storage server comprising: at least one optical storage media; a network module configured to couple to the network for packet based communications with the plurality of users across the network; at least one non-optical memory coupled between the network module and the at least one non-optical memory for temporary storage of data packets received from corresponding ones of the plurality of users; and a processor coupled to the at least one non-optical memory and configured to coalesce in the non-optical memory related data packets from a corresponding file or datastream into a corresponding aggregate data packet and to write each corresponding aggregate data packet to the at least one optical storage media, thereby reducing a number of write operations required to write data to the at least one optical storage media.