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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8148695 | Nuclear medical diagnosis apparatus A PET apparatus comprises a plurality of detector units in the circumferential direction, wherein the detector unit includes a plurality of unit substrates therein, and wherein the unit substrate includes: a plurality of detectors upon which a γ-ray is incident; an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148682 | Method and apparatus for pattern position and overlay measurement Systems and methods using imaged device patterns to measure overlay between different layers in a semiconductor manufacturing process, such as a double-patterning process. Images of pattern features are acquired by scanning electron microscopy. The position of a pat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147941 | Multi-information-layer recording medium and manufacturing process In forming a space layer of a multi-formation-layer recording medium, there are provided a medium having a high precision in a thickness of the space layer and its manufacturing process. In the multi-formation-layer recording medium wherein at least two pairs of an ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147145 | Journal bearing device An increase in the temperature of a sliding bearing can be suppressed, and it is possible to reduce the temperature of the bearing and prevent burning and damage. The bearing is divided in two and composed of a liner and a base metal. The liner is disposed on an inn... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146443 | Rotating body dynamic quantity measuring device and system A single crystal semiconductor including a Wheatstone bridge circuit formed of an impurity diffusion layer whose longitudinal direction is aligned with a particular crystal orientation is connected to a rotating body. A rotating body dynamic quantity measuring devic... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146092 | System and method for selecting and executing an optimal load distribution processing in a storage system A controller having a plurality of cores extracts, for each logical unit (LU), a pattern showing the relationship between a core having an LU ownership and a candidate core as an LU ownership change destination based on LU ownership management information, measures,... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145930 | Storage system and management information acquisition method for power saving The object of the invention is to control the power consumption in a storage subsystem. In a storage system, when a monitor in a host computer acquires information concerning a storage region to manage the storage region, a monitor in the host computer checks whethe... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145927 | Operation management method of information processing system In a computer room including information processing devices and air conditioners, power saving of the computer room by means of optimization of workload allocation to the information processing devices is achieved in a short time. There, a coefficient of air conditi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145924 | Storage apparatus and start-up control method for the same At the time of initial start-up, two or more storage units are started as a start-up control unit so that the total power consumption will not exceed specified electric power. Upon initial start-up of additional chassis, a CPU 214 for a basic chassis | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145828 | Flash memory-mounted storage apparatus In a data center, there is a limit in power capacity supplied to a storage apparatus, and the rated power consumption of the storage apparatus may exceed the power supply capacity by addition of storage capacity. A storage apparatus according to the invention includ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145818 | Access right managing method for accessing multiple programs Provided is an access right managing method for a resource of a storage system, in which a management computer stores access right definition information of the resource, and resource correspondence information including information on a management program which man... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145687 | File detection device and method Since no access history is generated for when a file update which makes use of a copy and paste function is performed, it is difficult to detect the file that served as the reference source during the update. Hence, the present invention is provided to manage a clie... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145605 | NAS system and remote copy method A system including: one or more file systems for storing data; a snapshot producing section for producing snapshots for the file systems based on a pre-scheduled snapshot acquisition time; a remote copy section for remote copying difference data for the snapshots ba... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145603 | Method and apparatus for data recovery using storage based journaling A storage system maintains a journal and a snapshot of one or more data volumes. Two journal entry types are maintained, an AFTER journal entry and a BEFORE journal entry. Two modes of data recovery are provided: “fast” recovery and “undo-able” recovery. A c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145602 | Storage apparatus, data restoration method and computer system An LU management table 61 that associates and stores the LU# of the P-Vol 10p and the LU# of the S-Vol 10s is provided. The CPU 53 specifies the LU# of the S-Vol 10s constituting the save source of the data wit... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145432 | System of binding structure for polymer molecule A simulation system that increases a polymer molecule binding prediction speed on a parallel and distributed computer system is provided. The simulation system determines a decomposition width that decomposes a search region of polymer molecule by means of translati... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145055 | Passive optical network system, optical line terminator and optical network unit In a PON, at the time of ranging, an OLT (a master station) measures an optical level of a signal from at least an ONU (a slave station) capable of communicating at plural transmission speeds. The OLT determines the transmission speed applied to the ONU according to... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144569 | Multi-layer optical disc, and recording method and apparatus for multi-layer optical disc Each layer includes a data recording area and a test writing area divided into a plurality of small areas, wherein the small areas of the test writing area are recorded in advance so that other each layer can make a combination of recorded and unrecorded states with... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144567 | Optical disc and optical disc apparatus A multilayer optical disc has dimples and/or bumps on a surface of at least one of the layers. Dimensions of the dimples and/or bumps, such as size, frequency and pitch, are selected to generate frequency components in light reflected from the surface that are diffe... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144559 | Multiple pulse recording method with 3-valued power levels Pulses modulated between the erase power and the bottom power are used instead of cooling pulses for an optical disk medium that needs a write strategy with 4-valued power levels. Consequently, pulse instruction lines for the cooling pulses, power level instruction ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144557 | Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and disk distinction method An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical source unit that emits an optical beam toward an optical information recording medium mounted on the apparatus, an optical receiving unit that receives a reflected beam of the optical beam re... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144549 | Head stack assembly and information recording apparatus An information recording apparatus includes a medium for recording information; a head slider including a device for writing the information onto the medium and a reflective surface for reflecting light; a light emitting portion for generating emission light toward ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144447 | Electromagnetic load controller An internal combustion engine controller comprises a current or voltage source for controlling a potential at a diagnosis position in order to ensure a high-precision fault diagnosis, even if the drive cycle of the electromagnetic load (such as a fuel injector), in ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143924 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device having pulse generating circuits There is provided a circuit whose output is free from high impedance to improve wrong transmission and waveform overshoot, realizing a semiconductor integrated circuit device in which plural channels is integrated with transmitter circuit as unit channel, in the tra... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142635 | Capillary array A capillary array includes a light detection portion, a sample supply portion, a buffer solution supply portion and a voltage application portion which are necessary functions for electrophoresis, thereby, when assembling the capillary array into an electrophoresis ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142626 | Electrolyzer and electrodes An the electrode for electrolysis of an electrolytic solution comprises an electrode core serving as a base and a plurality of prominences formed on a surface of the electrode core, the prominences have each a leaf-shaped form and rises from the electrode core surfa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142294 | Power transmission shaft and propeller shaft for vehicle A power transmitting shaft includes a coupling member, a cylindrical intermediate member, a tube member and an increased diameter portion. The coupling member connects to a counterpart. The cylindrical intermediate member is on a side of one end of the coupling memb... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142173 | Variable displacement vane pump In a variable displacement vane pump employing a cam ring, a pump rotor, and a plurality of vanes, each slidably fitted into the rotor, a biasing member is provided to force the cam ring in a direction that a geometric center of an inner peripheral surface of the ca... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141135 | Information processing system, terminal, information processing apparatus, and management server An information processing system has an information processing apparatus and a terminal coupled to each other through a network. The terminal has an address acquiring unit that reads storage information of a portable storage medium used by a user of the terminal to ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140917 | Stream recovery method, stream recovery program and failure recovery apparatus Stream data is structured including data tuples as a query process target and a recovery point tuple for indicating a position of the data tuples in the stream data. Upon detection of a failure at a computer, another computer reads position information in the stream... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140913 | Apparatus and method for monitoring computer system, taking dependencies into consideration A system monitoring apparatus specifies an intentionally shutdown system component or monitoring target, and a different monitoring target that is dependent thereon (a dependent target), and does not display an alert even when an error state is detected for a monito... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140864 | Computer system, storage system, and data management method for updating encryption key A computer system encrypts write-data to be written to the volume in response to a write command. The system transmits a rekey command from host computer system to the storage system when the key data stored in the host key data memory is changed to second key data.... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140810 | Storage management command control in virtualized environment Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a method for creating a command device in a storage system in a server virtualization environment. The storage system is coupled to a host computer having a virtual machine. The host computer includes a memory and a pro... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140802 | Storage system and storage system data migration method This storage system modifies the migration plan in accordance with the state of the migration destination when a plurality of volumes are migrated all at once. Migration-source volumes are migrated collectively to volumes inside the migration-destination storage app... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140800 | Storage apparatus Upon receiving an access request from a server, a microprocessor allocates a free slot as a data storage destination that is different from the LU# and LBA designated as a storage destination of user data, stores user data and data identifying information for identi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140790 | Failure management method in thin provisioning technology for storage A pool is replicated in the unit of volume providing the pool, and when a physical device is blocked, any volume blocked in the pool is changed to the replicated volume so that the pool and a virtual volume can be recovered. With such a configuration, when any pool ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140789 | Method for remote backup and storage system In a storage system, a technique for promptly reading the backup data stored in the child storage device in the remote site side in case of disaster for the master site is provided. In this system, a parent storage device having a primary volume (V1) and a se... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140776 | Computer system comprising storage operation permission management The system of the present invention enhances the security of settings and operations in a storage device, and copes with numerous changes of the operational status of work executed within a computer system. When it becomes necessary to issue an operating command to ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140754 | Methods and apparatus for managing HDD's spin-down and spin-up in tiered storage systems A storage system is configured as tiered storage (composed of top tier storage apparatuses and second tier storage apparatus at least). The top tire storage apparatus gathers the volume-to-volume map information and power boundary information from second tier storag... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140749 | Storage control apparatus with memory backup device In a storage control apparatus provided therein with a battery-backed-up memory device being a combination of a cache memory of a storage device and a system memory on the side of a CPU, an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) having a virtual window funct... | 03/20/2012 |
