Solid-State Optical Drive and Solid-State Storage Server

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016203097-A1
Application number	US-201614994137-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 12, 2016
Priority date	Jan 12, 2015
Publication date	Jul 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention discloses a content delivery network (CDN) based on solid-state optical drive (SSO). Like a solid-state (hard) drive (SSD) is a solid-state version of a hard-disk drive (HDD), the SSO is a solid-state version of CD-tower. Because an SSO stores a content library (CL) at a reasonable cost, the CL can be deployed at the edges of the CDN instead of only at the origin.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A solid-state optical drive (SSO), comprising:
an interface; at least a micro optical disk (uO) for storing permanent information; at least ten expansion slots coupled to said interface, wherein said uO can be inserted in or pulled out from a selected one of said expansion slots; wherein said uO comprises a plurality of vertically stacked three-dimensional printed memory (3D-P) dice, each of said 3D-P dice comprising a plurality of vertically stacked printed-memory levels.

2 . The SSO according to claim 1 , wherein said 3D-P dice are vertically stacked above the substrates of said 3D-P dice.

3 . The SSO according to claim 1 , wherein said printed-memory levels are vertically stacked above the substrate of the 3D-P die.

4 . A solid-state storage server (SSS-server), comprising:
a processor; a communication interface coupled to said processor; at least a solid-state hard drive (SSD) for storing re-writable data; at least a solid-state optical drive (SSO) for storing a content library (CL), said SSO transmitting contents in said CL through said communication interface under the control of said processor; wherein said SSO comprises an interface and at least ten expansion slots coupled to said interface, wherein a micro optical drive (uO) can be inserted in or pulled out from a selected one of said expansion slots.

5 . The SSS-server according to claim 4 , wherein said SSS-server is a media server for directly transmitting contents from said CL to end users.

6 . The SSS-server according to claim 5 , wherein said media server is an edge server in an ultra-high-definition (UHD) content delivery network (CDN).

7 . The SSS-server according to claim 4 , wherein said SSS-server is a base-station server for directly transmitting contents from said CL to end users through a base-station antenna.

8 . The SSS-server according to claim 7 , wherein said base-station server is an edge server in a mobile content delivery network (CDN).

9 . The SSS-server according to claim 4 , wherein said SSS-server is a on-board wireless server for directly transmitting contents from said CL to end users through a wireless router.

10 . The SSS-server according to claim 9 , wherein said on-board wireless server is an edge server in a mobile content delivery network (CDN).

11 . An edge server in a content delivery network (CDN), comprising:
a processor; a communication interface coupled to said processor; at least a solid-state optical drive (SSO) for storing a content library (CL), said SSO transmitting contents in said CL through said communication interface under the control of said processor; wherein said SSO comprises an interface and a plurality of expansion slots coupled to said interface, wherein a micro optical drive (uO) can be inserted in or pulled out from a selected one of said expansion slots.

12 . The edge server according to claim 11 , further comprising a solid-state hard drive (SSD) for storing re-writable data.

13 . The edge server according to claim 11 , wherein said edge server is a media server for directly transmitting contents from said CL to end users.

14 . The edge server according to claim 11 , wherein said CDN is an ultra-high-definition (UHD) CDN.

15 . The edge server according to claim 11 , wherein said edge server is a base-station server for directly transmitting contents from said CL to end users through a base-station antenna.

16 . The edge server according to claim 11 , wherein said edge server is a on-board wireless server for directly transmitting contents from said CL to end users through a wireless router.

17 . The edge server according to claim 11 , wherein CDN is a mobile CDN.

18 . The edge server according to claim 11 , wherein said uO comprises a plurality of vertically stacked three-dimensional printed memory (3D-P) dice, each of said 3D-P dice comprising a plurality of vertically stacked printed-memory levels.

19 . The edge server according to claim 18 , wherein said 3D-P dice are vertically stacked above the substrates of said 3D-P dice.

20 . The edge server according to claim 18 , wherein said printed-memory levels are vertically stacked above the substrate of the 3D-P die.

Assignees

• Zhang Guobiao
• Hangzhou Haicun Information Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Guobiao

Classifications

• G06F13/36

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• G06F13/4068 Primary

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• G11C5/02

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