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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070073964 | Method and apparatus for handling multi-volume datasets in a tape storage system A method and apparatus for handling multi-volume datasets in a tape storage system are disclosed. In response to a write request for a multi-volume dataset, the information of the multi-volume dataset are captured by intercepting and deciphering a set of volume mount co... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070055831 | System and method for performing a search operation within a sequential access data storage subsystem A system and method for performing a search operation within a sequential access data storage subsystem are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a data storage subsystem is provided which comprises a search module and a communication channel interface to communicativ... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070044007 | Method and apparatus for providing error correction capability to longitudinal position data A method and apparatus for providing error correction capability to longitudinal position data are disclosed. Initially, data are encoded via a set of even LPOS words and a set of odd LPOS words. The encoded data are then decoded by generating a set of syndrome bits for... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20070016745 | Method and apparatus for migrating data between heterogeneous data storage devices A method for migrating data between heterogeneous data storage devices within a storage area network is disclosed. A first virtualizer presents stored data as a first virtual disk, and then communicates a managed disk representation of the first virtual disk to a second... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060282669 | Method and apparatus for virtually erasing data from WORM storage devices A storage device capable of selectively rendering certain data irretrievable is disclosed. The storage device includes Write Once Read Many (WORM) storage medium, a key generator, an encrypted write component, an erasable storage medium and a key deleter. The WORM stora... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060250619 | Method and system for interferometric height measurment The invention relates to an interferometric method for measuring a height of a first region on a first surface, the first surface having first areas having first optical properties and second areas having second optical properties, the method comprising the steps of gen... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060230197 | Data storage system with shared cache address space An apparatus for a node of a peer-to-peer network having a plurality of nodes comprises one or more I/O adapters; a cache component; one or more inter-node routing components; a memory mapping component for presenting to the I/O adapters a single address space mapped ac... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060218199 | Method and system for scrubbing data within a data storage subsystem A method and system for scrubbing data within a data storage subsystem is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for scrubbing data of a storage element within a data storage subsystem. In the described method embodiment, a request to access the st... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060218113 | Method and system for shredding data within a data storage subsystem A method and system for shredding data within a data storage subsystem is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided of continually shredding data within a data storage subsystem in which all the data of a first storage element is made permanently unre... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060206758 | Replicated state machine A replicated state machine includes multiple state machine replicas. In response to a request from a client, the state machine replicas can execute a service for the request in parallel. Each of the state machine replicas is provided with a request manager instance. The... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060184930 | Coordinating software upgrades in distributed systems A method for software upgrade in a first node operable in a distributed computing system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a receiving component, a new version of application software and a new version of infrastructure software and installing, by an inst... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060183360 | System, method, and apparatus for installing removing flat cable with respect to a protective sleeve A tool for installing and removing flexible flat cable with respect to a protective sleeve has a groove for receiving the cable. The cable slides into and is formed into an arc by the groove and is supported evenly on both sides of the cable. With the full width of the ... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060176600 | Water marking in a data interval gap A storage device in which file data is divided into multiple blocks for storage on a recording medium. The storage device includes an additional data storing section for storing additional data to be recorded on the recording medium in association with the data to be wr... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060176603 | Device, method, and program product for controlling a tape data storage drive A device, method, and machine-readable medium program product for controlling a tape data storage drive are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a device is provided for controlling a tape drive operable with a tape storage medium, the device comprising a buffer memo... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060174325 | Method and apparatus for exchanging information between computer systems from different computer networks A method for exchanging information between computers from different computer networks without any direct connection is disclosed. The two networks include corresponding bridge computers that which share a file system residing on a common storage device. Any computer of... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060168256 | Controlling service failover in clustered storage apparatus networks A controller for use at a node of a clustered computer apparatus comprises an exception detection component for detecting an exception raised by a service component at the node; a quiesce component responsive to the exception detection component for quiescing lease-gove... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060150013 | System and method for storing and restoring a data file using several storage media A system and method for storing and restoring a data file using several storage media. The method begins with the step of generating several identical copies of the data file. The identical copies are stored on different storage media. The identical copies are subdivide... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060136525 | Method, computer program product and mass storage device for dynamically managing a mass storage device A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for dynamically managing a mass storage device. The present invention includes computing an individual score for each data element among a collection of data stored in a secondary storage device. The secondary storage devi... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060135190 | Dynamic remote storage system for storing software objects from pervasive devices A dynamic remote storage system for storing software objects from a mobile device is disclosed. The dynamic remote storage system includes a remote storage bank server and a wireless communication network. The remote storage bank server is accessible by a user via a ter... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060129757 | System and method of operating a mobile computer system A method, system, and computer-usable medium for operating a mobile computer system. In response to receiving a write request, a control system attempts to write data associated with said write request to a non-volatile memory cache coupled to said hard disk drive. In r... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060126464 | Information processing system, program, recording medium, and control method An information processing system (IPS) including an external storage device having a drive control unit for performing reading/writing operations on a recording medium in response to a request from an operation system, in which the drive control unit transmits to the op... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060106999 | Managing SANs with scalable hosts A method, system, and computer program product for providing enhanced management features for a SAN with scalable hosts. Partitioned hosts (or ‘scalable’ hosts) are managed by extending SAN manager host-centric logical views to show (1) the host partition hierarchy ... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060095682 | High-performance lock management for flash copy in n-way shared storage systems A method, system, and machine-readable medium for providing high-performance lock management for a flash copy image of a region of data in N-way shared storage systems is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a data processing system is provided which comprises a cach... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060069703 | Low-overhead storage cluster configuration locking A storage control apparatus, in communication with a cluster of storage devices in a storage network having plural administrator systems, comprises a cluster lock requester component, a cluster lock receiver component and a configuration component, wherein, responsive t... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060056151 | System for cooling interior and external housing surfaces of an electronic apparatus A system for cooling interior and external housing surfaces of an electronic apparatus. The apparatus includes at least one electronic component, a heat transfer mechanism for transferring to an external surface of the apparatus heat generated by the electronic componen... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20060038741 | System and method for implementing a multi-monitor interface for a data processing system To provide a multi-monitor system capable of enhancing operability of a mouse in an extended desktop environment. When a screen M1 of a primary monitor 11 is connected to a screen M2 of a secondary monitor 21 in a shifted manner at a predeter... | 02/23/2006 |
| 20050289233 | Autonomic self-surveillance system and method for supported equipment A method and system is presented for autonomic self-surveillance of equipment. The system includes a coupler, which has a first component attached to a support rack and a second component attached to the equipment. When coupled, the coupler secures the equipment to the ... | 12/29/2005 |
| 20050273665 | Apparatus, method and program for recording diagnostic trace information A method and apparatus of recording diagnostic trace information is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided in which metadata corresponding to each of a plurality of events that are subject to tracing is stored, where the metadata indicates how usef... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050228960 | Method and system for copying the data contents of a computer system memory during application program run-time The present invention relates to methods of copying and updating data in a processor memory during program run-time without suspending the program's access to its data in the memory during the data-copying and updating processes. In one aspect, the invention concerns a ... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050223271 | Remote copy synchronization in disaster recovery computer systems A method, storage system, and machine-readable medium for resynchronizing data stored among a first storage element and a second storage element of a remote copy pair of storage elements is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided which includes dete... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050213607 | Method and system for transmitting an application message between nodes of a clustered data processing system A method and system for transmitting an application message between nodes of a clustered data processing system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method, embodied within a machine-readable medium, is provided according to which a determination is made whether... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050190339 | Fixing device, method of fixing substrate and apparatus and method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel using the same Disclosed are a fixing device and method of fixing substrate to provide holding means capable of surely fixing and positioning a sheet-like substrate even in vacuum, and to provide an operational mechanism thereof. A fixing device includes: a carrier plate for setting a... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050180038 | Data backup system, method, and program A system, method, and computer program product for copying data to one or more recording media devices. In one embodiment, the method includes a step of specifying a data set group consisting of multiple, individually identified data sets within a task control table. Th... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050177547 | Method for handling data A method, device and computer program for handling a data stream comprising a number of data objects, wherein for at least one of these data objects a decision is made whether a compression is conducted based on a value representing a compression factor of the data obje... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050161650 | Cable installation An apparatus for gripping cables is disclosed. The apparatus for gripping a cable includes an elongated housing for slidably receiving the cable axially thereof. The housing is configured to permit an end of the cable to leave the housing and be received back by the hou... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050166093 | Method for controlling starting operation of unit and executing self-checking test When a testing system is connected to a debug port of a tape drive unit or a SCSI bus, a self-checking test for a fabricating process is executed. When the testing system is not connected, the self-checking test for normal operation is executed. And in a test of a singl... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050162287 | Circuit and method for use in data compression An apparatus for performing data compression is disclosed. A circuit (640) within a comparison unit (400) of a comparison matrix (170) performs LZ1 compression of a data string by comparing bytes held in an input buffer (140) with bytes held ... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050138054 | Device control support information acquisition A system, method and computer program for acquiring analyzed device control support information in a field population of distributed devices operable to be connected in a network to a virtualizer has an aggregator adapted to be coupled to said virtualizer. The virtualiz... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050138090 | Method and apparatus for performing a backup of data stored in multiple source medium A method and apparatus for performing a backup of data stored in multiple source medium are disclosed. A first backup file is initially generated on a backup medium. Then, data blocks of a first and second source files are written onto the first backup file. In response... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050131968 | Method for performing verifications on backup data within a computer system A method for performing verifications on backup data within a computer system is disclosed. Initially, a data volume is divided into multiple data groups. A backup operation is performed on all of the data groups on a periodic basis. After the performance of a backup op... | 06/16/2005 |
