Patent ID: 6108694
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A memory disc sharing method of sharing a memory disc by a plurality of computers through a network, said method executed in a computer comprising the steps of:accepting a command, in accordance with which the memory disc is accessed, at a network interface apparatus;determining whether the command is directed to the computer concerned or other computers;transmitting, when a requested computer to which a request of the command has been made is any of other computers, the command to the any of other computers;executing, when a requested computer to which the request of the command has been made from the computer concerned is the computer concerned, the processing of reading out/writing data from/to the memory disc in the computer concerned; andcarrying out, when a requesting computer from which a request has been made is any of other computers, the data transfer between the memory disc of the computer concerned and the requesting computer.