| 20100146094 | Method And System For Compressing Files Based On Their Popularity In A Network - A method for file storage management. The method includes the steps of determining by a first computer, for a plurality of peer computers in a communication network of the first computer, information on the storage management of blocks of the file by the peer computers. In addition, the method includes selecting, by the first computer, blocks of the file to be made available to the first computer independently of the plurality of peer computers, responsive to the determined information and managing a storage unit of the first computer, such that the non-selected blocks of the file are not stored locally by the first computer. | 06-10-2010 |
