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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117641 | Control device and control method for information system A technique of performing concurrency control of policies is provided, which makes it possible to efficiently utilize resources of an overall information system. According to the present invention, a policy execution device creates a list of components of a applicat... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117419 | Storage apparatus and method for eliminating redundant data storage using storage apparatus A storage apparatus provides, in a dynamic provisioning system, a virtual logical device (DP-LDEV) that is a virtual logical device configured of a real logical device (N-LDEV). In the storage apparatus, a storage area of a real logical device is managed by being di... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117416 | Storage device and power control method The storage device of the present invention has: a first recording unit that records a time zone history of access to each storage area assigned to a virtual volume; a second recording unit that executes a predetermined calculation based on the time zone history of ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117411 | Storage system and remote copy recovery method Data written in the primary logical volume of the first storage device are transmitted to the third storage device via the second storage device, the data being written in the same location as the primary logical volume within the secondary logical volume in the thi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117409 | Method and apparatus for backup and restore in a dynamic chunk allocation storage system Backup and restore operations are made possible in a storage system that has dynamic chunk allocation (DCA) capability. In a DCA storage system, a chunk of physical storage area is not allocated to a segment of a volume until a write command is received targeting th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117405 | Storage control method for managing access environment enabling host to access data A computer system wherein a first access environment program converts an application data created by the first application program, according to access environment information, and sends the converted application data to a first volume, wherein a management computer... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117391 | Storage system and data management method A storage system, which is coupled to a computer, includes a storage device, a controller, a plurality of cache memory units, and a connecting unit. Each of the plurality of cache memory units includes: a cache memory for storing data; an auxiliary storage device fo... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117386 | Management method of performance history and a management system of performance history A performance history management method and system are disclosed, in which the time-series performance history such as a volume included in a storage device is managed as one time-series performance history at the time of data rearrangement or device change. The dat... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117376 | Storage system and control method thereof Proposed are a storage system and its control method capable of dealing with the unique problems that arise when using a nonvolatile memory as the memory device while effectively preventing performance deterioration. This storage system is provided with a plurality ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117167 | Method and data processing system with data replication There is provided a technique capable of executing a predetermined processing while continuing a database processing. Firstly, the database to be operated is switched from the main database to a duplicate database. The predetermined processing is executed to the mai... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117166 | Method and system for creating snapshots by condition A data management method in a storage device system having a control device connected to a computer, and a storage device connected to the control device. The control device saves data stored in an area corresponding to a write request, and then writes the data to t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117161 | Storage system, NAS server and snapshot acquisition method A storage system including: a storage device for storing a file; a plurality of file systems for managing the file; and a plurality of NAS servers that control access from a client to the file systems via a global namespace formed by grouping local namespaces for th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117151 | File system migration in storage system In a cluster type NAS, it is necessary to copy file data between disk devices of servers upon migration of a file system or a part of the file system. A server includes a control table for managing a file system or a part of the file system, and a mapping table for ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117015 | Analytical model creation system An analytical model creation system can create a desired analytical model by adding a given shape change to an existing analytical model. The system includes an adjacent partial analytical model interlocking section for performing an interlocking change process. The... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116965 | Apparatus for and method of controlling variable valve mechanism The present invention provides an apparatus for and method of diagnosing whether or not a failure occurs in a variable valve mechanism on the basis of a manipulated variable of an electric actuator. The variable valve mechanism is operated by the electric actuator a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116914 | Wind turbine and operating method thereof A pitch controller, uninterruptible power supply, and rotational speed detector are disposed in the rotor in a wind turbine. When a slip ring failure or wire breakage occurs, the pitch controller internally creates a pitch angle command so as to control the pitch an... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116811 | Wireless communication control apparatus and method for mobile objects According to one aspect of wireless communication control apparatus and method for a mobile object according to the present invention, the wireless communication apparatus and method include the steps of: collecting communication-state information corresponding to p... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116782 | Communication quality control system The present invention implements communication control with user's service subscription information reflected in a mobile communication network. A QoS control server for providing a communication quality control function of a network, a user information management s... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116627 | PON system method for receiving optical signal and OLT When a signal of weak optical power is received immediately after a signal of intense optical power, input of the signal of intense optical power readily causes saturation, and the influence interferes in the signal of weak optical power to deteriorate receiver sens... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116427 | Radiological imaging apparatus A radiological imaging apparatus of the present invention comprises an image pickup device and a medical examinee holding device that is provided with a bed. The image pickup device includes a large number of radiation detectors and radiation detector support plates... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116263 | Radio communication apparatus An AN (Access Network) controlled by a communication control apparatus and communicating with a AT Access Terminal), wherein the AN receives control information including information for allocating communication information from the communication control apparatus, ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116176 | Thermally assisted magnetic head-slider and head-gimbal assembly A thermally assisted magnetic head-slider includes an air-bearing slider, a metal film, and a semiconductor laser unit. The metal film having an aperture in a part through which light from the semiconductor laser unit passes is disposed between a surface opposite to... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116100 | Semiconductor device Traffic between logic LSIs and memory is increasing year by year and there is demand for increase of capacity of communication between them and reduction of power consumption in the communication. Communication distances between LSIs can be reduced by stacking the L... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116042 | Magnetoresistance device A device capable of exhibiting the extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) effect includes an elongate channel formed of silicon. A conductor comprising heavily doped silicon is connected to the channel along one side of the channel so as to provide a shunt. A gate ar... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115706 | Improving displayed texture by changing brightness at particular points The present invention represents an object with high-quality texture. A texture image display apparatus includes: a panel display device (20) having a plurality of pixels (21); a lens array (30) having a plurality of lenses for controlling outgo... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115638 | RFID thread, sheet with RFID thread, and printing machine for sheet with RFID thread An RFID thread which is mounted on a sheet and whose predetermined information can be read wirelessly from outside, the RFID thread includes: an IC chip recording the predetermined information; a first antenna consisting of an electrically continuous conductor which... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115486 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and radio frequency pulse waveform generating method An MRI apparatus comprises a waveform controlling means for calculating a radio frequency pulse and applying the pulse to an irradiating means, and the waveform controlling means reads out a radio frequency pulse waveform vector from a first memory means which memor... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115445 | Operation control method and operation control apparatus for variable speed generator-motor An excitation device supplies a three-phase AC excitation current to a variable speed generator-motor, and controls the variable speed generator-motor based on a three-phase AC excitation current command value obtained by vector-synthesizing, based on a slip phase f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115442 | Electric motor drive system and electric motor control method An electric motor drive system having current detecting sections for detecting the currents flowing into electric motors, speed variation calculating sections for calculating the speed variation estimating values for the electric motors in accordance with the motor ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115436 | Motor control apparatus and motor system In a motor control apparatus, apparatus all switching devices of all phases of an inverter are kept fixed at OFF in accordance with a value of an all-OFF control pulse signal Poff outputted by a pulse generator. The pulse generator generates at least twice a pulse c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115388 | Plasma display device There is provided a plasma display panel device using phosphors to improve reliability and color reproductivity or color performance. A plasma display panel includes: a discharge gas for generating ultraviolet light as a result of electric discharge, and a phosphor ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115387 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel includes a first and a second plate facing each other via a discharge space. On the first plate, a first and a second bus electrode are provided which extend in a first direction and are disposed at intervals. In a cell, a first and a second d... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114546 | Fuel cell power generation system and method of operating thereof A temperature adjustment member is arranged to control temperature of a reformer independently of temperature of a fuel cell module. The reformer is structured as a three-fluid heat exchanger into which a fluid is introducible whose temperature is higher or lower th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113867 | Cable connection guiding method using a terminal block cover with terminal identification devices A cable connection guiding method includes the steps of extracting conductor identification information being used to identify a conductor from a RFID tag connected to the conductor of a cable, and indicating a terminal indicating device associated with an obtained ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113663 | Projection image display apparatus and projection optical unit to be used therein In a projection type image display apparatus, for enlarging an image on a image display apparatus 1 by means of a projection lens 2, thereby projecting the enlarged image onto a screen 6, obliquely, being inclined thereto, between the projection... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113177 | Electromagnetic fuel injector and method for assembling the same An electromagnetic fuel injection valve comprising: a metallic cylindrical-shaped vessel provided at a tip end thereof with a fuel injection port, the other end thereof being closed by a stationary core provided centrally thereof with a through-hole; a movable membe... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113051 | Angular velocity measuring device An oscillator is oscillated at a predetermined oscillation frequency. A detecting unit exerts Coriolis force on the oscillator. A repetitive control system applies an external force to the oscillator so as to cancel out the Coriolis force to achieve an angular veloc... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112754 | Controlling body-bias voltage and clock frequency in a multiprocessor system for processing tasks In case of a task scheduling processing that assigns plural divided execution program tasks to plural processor units, a multiprocessor system using SOI/MOS transistors employs two processes; one process is to determine an order to execute those tasks so as to reduc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112750 | Computer system In scheduling shared processing that has a higher priority than LPAR processing, giving precedence to physical CPUs running idle LPARs prevents prolonged hold-up of LPAR processing. In a system is comprised of multiple physical CPUs, multiple LPARs to which these ph... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112621 | Multi-core address mapping for selecting storage controller program Even if each processor core uses the same logical address, a processing-target program corresponding to each processor core can be selected. A logical address of multiple address mapping tables is set to a same logical address in correspondence with an embedded OS p... | 02/07/2012 |
