File preassemble system and method by using broadcasting mechanism to balance loads

Abstract

The system and method are applicable to client/server network architecture, and includes data connection and instruction connection. The data connection in non connection-oriented mode is built between server and client in order to spread data packets from server to client. The instruction connection in connection-oriented mode is built between sever and client in order to transfer instruction requests in bi-directions. The invention builds the said two connections. With data packets broadcasted by server end being received, client writes then to disk at pointed location. The invention possesses advantages of lesser network bandwidth and flexible workflow.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a file preinstallation system and method, in particular to a file preinstallation system and method applied to a client / server network structure and using a broadcast mechanism to balance loads. Background technique [0002] Computers (including notebook computers and desktop computers) all have operating systems and application software pre-installed on the hard disk before leaving the factory. After a user buys a calculator, he can turn on the power and use it. [0003] In order to achieve this goal, the general method is: first, perform routine operations on a prototype, including partitioning, formatting, installing the operating system, installing random software, etc.; then copy the hard disk of the prototype into a mirror image file under DOS , and put the image file in the shared directory on the server; finally download the image file through the client computer, and restore a shipping image according to the image file...

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[0005] 1. If there are n clients downloading the shipping image from the server at the same time, the network traffic is n times that of one client. When the number of clients is large, it will cause a huge burden on the network, not only greatly reducing the download efficiency, but also It may even cause too much network data and paralyze the network

[0006] 2. When several clients download the shipping image file online at the same time, the server performs concurrent processing on the same image file. Because there is no unified scheduling for concurrent processing, it will cause a large burden on the server disk. To a certain extent Reduced data download rate on

[0007] 3. When there are many shipping images online at the same time on the production line, in order to improve efficiency, measures such as using high-performance servers, increasing the number of servers, and adopting Gigabit networks have to be taken, which greatly increases production costs

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