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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120084519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETAINING AND USING DATA BLOCK SIGNATURES IN DATA PROTECTION OPERATIONS A system according to certain embodiments associates a signature value corresponding to a data block with one or more data blocks and a reference to the data block to form a signature/data word corresponding to the data block. The system further logically organizes the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETAINING AND USING DATA BLOCK SIGNATURES IN DATA PROTECTION OPERATIONS A system according to certain embodiments associates a signature value corresponding to a data block with one or more data blocks and a reference to the data block to form a signature/data word corresponding to the data block. The system further logically organizes the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084269 | CONTENT ALIGNED BLOCK-BASED DEDUPLICATION A content alignment system according to certain embodiments aligns a sliding window at the beginning of a data segment. The content alignment system performs a block alignment function on the data within the sliding window. A deduplication block is established if the ou... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084268 | CONTENT ALIGNED BLOCK-BASED DEDUPLICATION A content alignment system according to certain embodiments aligns a sliding window at the beginning of a data segment. The content alignment system performs a block alignment function on the data within the sliding window. A deduplication block is established if the ou... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072695 | METHODS AND SYSTEM OF POOLING STORAGE DEVICES A system and method are provided for pooling storage devices in a virtual library for performing a storage operation. A storage management device determines a storage characteristic of a plurality of storage devices with respect to performing a storage operation. Based ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120030432 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA IN A COMPUTER NETWORK A computerized method for sharing removable storage media in a network, the method comprising associating, in an index entry, a first piece of removable storage media in a first storage device with at least a first storage policy copy and a second storage policy copy; c... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030177 | HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DATA STORAGE OPERATIONS The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in the ba... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING REPLICATION COPY STORAGE OPERATIONS A system and method are provided for performing storage operations relating to a first secondary copy of electronic data. A storage policy or storage preferences may dictate that a replication copy should be used in storage operations performed to a particular client, s... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110283073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUXILIARY STORAGE OPERATIONS Systems and methods for protecting data in a tiered storage system are provided. The storage system comprises a management server, a media management component connected to the management server, a plurality of storage media connected to the media management component, ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING AND TRANSFERRING INFORMATION IN A STORAGE NETWORK Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among othe... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110264620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTEGRATED STORAGE OPERATIONS The present invention relates to a method for performing integrated storage operations on an information store. The present invention comprises identifying a plurality disparate types of storage operations stored in a policy option table. A first storage operation is pe... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120017111 | KERNEL SWAPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOVERING A NETWORK DEVICE In certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for recovering a failed client device in a network. The method includes booting a failed one of a plurality of client devices in the network with a generic image having a generic kernel usable with each of the plurality of c... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017075 | REGISTRY KEY FEDERATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS According to certain aspects, a method is disclosed for registry key management in a network. The method includes detecting registry keys stored in a registry of a plurality of client computing devices and storing on a remote database a copy of the registry keys. The re... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110314120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MULTISTREAM STORAGE OPERATIONS Systems and methods for performing storage operations over multi-stream data paths are provided. Prior to performing a storage operation, it may be determined whether multi-streaming resources are available to perform a multi-stream storage operation. Availability of mu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110302383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING DATA IN A BLOCK-LEVEL STORAGE OPERATION The invention provides a system and method for storing a copy of data stored in an information store. In one embodiment, a data agent reads one or more blocks containing the data from the information store. The data agent maps the one or more blocks to provide a mapping... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302140 | FAILOVER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING BACKUP OPERATIONS In certain embodiments, a tiered storage system is disclosed that provides for failover protection during data backup operations. The system can provide for an index, or catalog, for identifying and enabling restoration of backup data located on a storage device. The sy... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296520 | FIREWALL PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN A BACKUP ENVIRONMENT According to certain aspects, a method for performing remote backup operations is provided that includes receiving a first unidirectional connection request from a media agent module to a proxy device within an enterprise network, through a firewall. The method also inc... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DATA REPLICATION Preparing source data to be replicated in a continuous data replication environment. Certain systems and methods populate a file name database with entries having a unique file identifier descriptor (FID), short name and a FID of the parent directory of each directory o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295805 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DATA REPLICATION Preparing source data to be replicated in a continuous data replication environment. Certain systems and methods populate a file name database with entries having a unique file identifier descriptor (FID), short name and a FID of the parent directory of each directory o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295804 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DATA REPLICATION Preparing source data to be replicated in a continuous data replication environment. Certain systems and methods populate a file name database with entries having a unique file identifier descriptor (FID), short name and a FID of the parent directory of each directory o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110246430 | DATA RESTORE SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN A REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246429 | STUB FILE PRIORITIZATION IN A DATA REPLICATION SYSTEM Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246416 | STUBBING SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN A DATA REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238777 | PIPELINE SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT A communications system having a data transfer pipeline apparatus for transferring data in a sequence of N stages from an origination device to a destination device. The apparatus comprises dedicated memory having buffers dedicated for carrying data and a master control... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238695 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCATION OF MEDIA IN A STORAGE SYSTEM A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls the ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238621 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE DATA REPLICATION Systems and methods for performing data replication are disclosed. Determining whether to update replicated data typically involves comparison of readily obtainable attributes of a given source file and its corresponding replicated file. Such attributes can be obtained ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231606 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROUPING STORAGE SYSTEM COMPONENTS Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group which... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110178986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING AND TRANSFERRING INFORMATION IN A STORAGE NETWORK Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among othe... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110131187 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INDEXING AND USER INTERFACE A system and method of managing stored data in a storage management system. The storage management system includes a storage manager, a media agent connected to the storage manager, and a primary volume connected to the media agent. A plurality of snapshots are taken of... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110119235 | HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DATA STORAGE OPERATIONS The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in the ba... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110087851 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING DATA STREAMS IN A STORAGE OPERATION Described herein are systems and methods for multiplexing pipelined data for backup operations. Various data streams are combined such as by multiplexing by a multiplexing module. The multiplexing module combines the data from the various data streams received by receiv... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110078295 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROUPING STORAGE SYSTEM COMPONENTS Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group which... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING METADATA TO ENHANCE DATA IDENTIFICATION OPERATIONS Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtaine... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072364 | INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING STORED DATA A modular data and storage management system. The system includes a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of data that is received over time. The time variance interface of the modular data and storage management system provides for retr... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072097 | EMAIL ATTACHMENT MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM An e-mail management system that includes an e-mail browser having a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of e-mail messages that have been received over time. The time variance interface of the e-mail browser also provides for retrieva... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072041 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCATION OF MEDIA INI A STORAGE SYSTEM A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls the ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110066599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN IMAGE LEVEL SNAPSHOT AND FOR RESTORING PARTIAL VOLUME DATA The present invention relates to a method for performing an image level copy of an information store. The present invention comprises performing a snapshot of an information store that indexes the contents of the information store, retrieving data associated with the co... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110060725 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRID-BASED DATA SCANNING A computing grid for performing scanning operations on electronic data in a networked computing environment. The data scanning operations may include scanning data for viruses or other malicious software code. The computing grid for performing data scanning operations m... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110047180 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING AND TRANSFERRING INFORMATION IN A STORAGE NETWORK Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among othe... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING CONTROL OF STORAGE MEDIA IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT A method for dynamically allocating control of a storage device, the method comprising receiving an access request from a first computer requesting access to a storage device; directing, based upon the access request, a first storage controller computer to assume an ina... | 02/17/2011 |
