Patent ID: 8645437
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A file delivery system, comprising: a disk file system including a disk drive, wherein the disk drive stores a file comprising a plurality of blocks of data, the file including content for streaming by a user device; a solid state drive file system including a solid state drive, wherein the solid state stores a first sequential block of data of the blocks of data, but not a remaining portion of the blocks of data; and an interface module in communication with the disk file system and with the solid state drive file system, the interface module configured to retrieve the first sequential block of data from the solid state drive in response to a request from the user device for the file, to send a read command to the disk drive for a next sequential block of the file at substantially the same time as the first sequential block is retrieved from the solid state drive and sent to the user device, and to store the next sequential block in a buffer.