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A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047343 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM FOR FAST REVERSE RESTORE Techniques are provided for performing a copy operation. A fast reverse restore command indicating a new source and a new target is received, wherein the new source is an original target and the new target is an original source. A synchronous scan is performed on the ne... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047342 | SIMULTANEOUS DATA BACKUP IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM A data processing system using a client-server configuration includes a method and apparatus for simultaneously generating multiple copies of data sets in multiple storage pools. Simultaneous copies of data sets may be made for storage pools having LAN-free paths in add... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040986 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR SECURELY PROVIDING KEYS TO ENCODE AND DECODE DATA IN A STORAGE CARTRIDGE Provided is a method, system, and program for enabling access to data in a storage medium within one of a plurality of storage cartridges capable of being mounted into a interface device. An association is provided of at least one coding key to a plurality of storage ca... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110023043 | EXECUTING MULTIPLE THREADS IN A PROCESSOR Provided are a method, system, and program for executing multiple threads in a processor. Credits are set for a plurality of threads executed by the processor. The processor alternates among executing the threads having available credit. The processor decrements the cre... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022853 | ENCRYPTING DATA IN VOLATILE MEMORY Provided are a computer program product, system, and method to allocate blocks of memory in a memory device having a plurality of blocks. At least one unencrypted memory allocation function coded in an application is executed to request allocation of unencrypted blocks ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022729 | SUPPORTING NON-DELIVERY NOTIFICATION BETWEEN A SWITCH AND DEVICE IN A NETWORK Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for supporting non-delivery notification between a switch and device in a network. A login with a switch is initiated including a test service parameter requesting a non-delivery notification service to cause t... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010513 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PRESERVING CONSISTENCY OF REMOTE COPY DATA A storage control system adapted to operate as a remote copy pair by communicating between a primary and a secondary of the remote copy pair comprises: a selector for selecting writes to be placed in a batch based on one or more criteria; a sequence number requester for... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332749 | WEAR LEVELING OF SOLID STATE DISKS DISTRIBUTED IN A PLURALITY OF REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISK RANKS A computational device allocates a plurality of solid state disks to a plurality of redundant array of independent disk (RAID) ranks, wherein a different solid state disk is absent in each RAID rank of the plurality of RAID ranks. The computational device determines at ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100318717 | STATUS INFORMATION SAVING AMONG MULTIPLE COMPUTERS Provided are techniques for status information saving among multiple computers. In one embodiment, a selected computer is operated using a plurality of input/output devices over switched input/output signal paths passing through a KVM (keyboard video mouse) switch posit... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318590 | FILE SYSTEM LOCATION VERIFICATION USING A SENTINEL A new file system is mounted to a mount point of an existing file system implemented in a computational system. A sentinel indicator is stored in the mount point. Prior to initiating an input/output (I/O) operation by a program, a determination is made by the program as... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316353 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDNG STREAM LINKING IN AUDIO/VIDEO DISK MEDIA A method and apparatus for providing stream linking in audio/video disk media is disclosed. The present invention sets-up an audio/video stream on a disk drive, uses read and write commands for accessing contiguous data and, given an established stream, establishes a li... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100306523 | RESTORING A SOURCE FILE REFERENCED BY MULTIPLE FILE NAMES TO A RESTORE FILE Provided are a method, system, and program for restoring a source file referenced by multiple file names to a restore file. An operation is processed to restore a source file having a first file name to a restore file, wherein the source file is in a state of being acce... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302667 | DETECTION OF DEFECTIVE TAPE DRIVE BY AGGREGATING READ ERROR STATISTICS A plurality of tape drives writes a plurality of indicators corresponding to a plurality of data units on a tape, wherein an indicator indicates which tape drive of the plurality of tape drives has written a corresponding data unit on the tape. Each of the plurality of ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100274965 | REDUNDANT SOLID STATE DISK SYSTEM VIA INTERCONNECT CARDS A first interconnect card is configured, wherein a first controller is included in the first interconnect card. A second interconnect card coupled to the first interconnect card is configured, wherein a second controller is included in the second interconnect card. In r... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100274764 | ACCESSING SNAPSHOTS OF A TIME BASED FILE SYSTEM A file system driver stored in a computational device receives a request to provide access to a snapshot of a rewritable file system at a selected point in time, wherein a plurality of tokens corresponding to a plurality of data units are stored in the rewritable file s... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100268986 | MULTI-NODE CONFIGURATION OF PROCESSOR CARDS CONNECTED VIA PROCESSOR FABRICS Provided is a system comprising a first node comprising a plurality of processor cards each including a processor fabric, wherein the processor cards in the first node connect via their processor fabrics; a second node comprising a plurality of processor cards each incl... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100257237 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR CONTROLLING CLIENT ACCESS Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein in certain embodiments a request is received to initiate a session. A determination is made whether the session should be initiated with addressing information provided by a client. The session is initia... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100231379 | INITIATING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTING BIO-FEEDBACK SATISFYING AN ALERT CONDITION Provided are a method, system, and program for initiating emergency communication in response to detecting bio-feedback satisfying an alert condition. A portable electronic device is coupled to a body of a user to monitor biofeedback from the body of the user through a ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100228708 | ALLOCATING DATA SETS TO A CONTAINER DATA SET Provided are a method, system, and program for allocating data sets to a container data set. A container data set is allocated in a storage system. An entry is included in a file allocation catalog for the allocated container data set indicating an address range of data... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228700 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR ARCHIVING FILES Provided are a method, system, and program for archiving files. A hierarchical file system having directories is provided. An archival retention policy is associated with at least one of the directories in the hierarchical file system, wherein the retention policy appli... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223404 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR USING HOST AND STORAGE CONTROLLER PORT INFORMATION TO CONFIGURE PATHS BETWEEN A HOST AND STORAGE CONTROLLER IN A NETWORK Provided is an article of manufacture, system and method for a management system for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller in a network. A management system is coupled to a network, wherein the manage... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223233 | MANAGEMENT OF REDUNDANT OBJECT IN STORAGE SYSTEMS Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein one client node is selected from a plurality of client nodes. A determination is made that an object corresponding to a client node has to be stored. A determination is made as to whether the object has a... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220740 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR FORWARDING MESSAGES BETWEEN NODES Provided are a method, system, and program for forwarding a message from a transmitting node. A first message is received encoded using a first communication protocol from the transmitting node, wherein the first message includes a direct reference to a memory location ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217930 | MANAGING PROCESSING SYSTEMS ACCESS TO CONTROL BLOCKS PROVIDING INFORMATION ON STORAGE RESOURCES Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture to manage storage resources in a storage system. Requests by processing systems are received for access to a control block providing information on an address assigned to one of the storage resources to access. A... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217857 | CONSOLIDATING SESSION INFORMATION FOR A CLUSTER OF SESSIONS IN A COUPLED SESSION ENVIRONMENT Provided are a method, system, and program for consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment. Information for each of a plurality of sessions comprising a cluster is stored in a memory of a processor session. Each session a... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100205453 | PRE-CONFIGURING OF ENCRYPTION BANDS ON A DISK FOR USE IN A PLURALITY OF ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS A computational device receives input information on characteristics of customer data, critical metadata, and non-critical metadata, and characteristics of disk array configurations, wherein customer data is to be stored encrypted, wherein critical metadata is to be sto... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202793 | Checking and Conditional Processing of a Print Job Printed with Multiple Transfer Media Provided are a method, system and program for checking and conditional processing of a print job printed with multiple transfer media. A print job indicates first print content to print using a first transfer medium and second print content to print using a second trans... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100199050 | PROACTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR REDUCING OCCURRENCE OF LONG WRITE SERVICE TIME FOR A STORAGE DEVICE WITH A WRITE CACHE Provided are techniques for introducing a delay in responding to host write requests. A percentage of fullness of a write cache is determined. Based on the determined percentage of fullness of the write cache (f), a low cache threshold (L), alpha (α), and k, an amount ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198958 | REAL-TIME FEEDBACK FOR POLICIES FOR COMPUTING SYSTEM MANAGEMENT One aspect of the invention is a method for providing real-time feedback regarding the effect of applying a policy definition used for management in a computing system. An example of the method includes receiving the policy definition, and accessing stored information r... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100192008 | USING VIRTUAL COPIES IN A FAILOVER AND FAILBACK ENVIRONMENT Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment. Updates are copied from a primary first storage at the primary site to a secondary first storage at the secondary site during system operations. A ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100186018 | OFF-LOADING OF PROCESSING FROM A PROCESSOR BADE TO STORAGE BLADES A processor blade determines whether a selected processing task is to be off-loaded to a storage blade for processing. The selected processing task is off-loaded to the storage blade via a planar bus communication path, in response to determining that the selected proce... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100185829 | EXTENT CONSOLIDATION AND STORAGE GROUP ALLOCATION Data is added to a data set to cause a growth in size of the data set, wherein the data set belongs to a storage group, and wherein the data set is comprised of extents. The data set is included into a new storage group, in response to determining that the growth in the... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100185744 | MANAGEMENT OF A RESERVE FOREVER DEVICE A host reserves a device controlled by a controller that is coupled to the host. The controller starts a first timer, in response to a completion of input/output (I/O) operations on the device by the host, wherein the host continues to reserve the device after the compl... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100185697 | MAINTAINING A DATA STRUCTURE WITH DATA SET NAMES AND POINTERS TO A PLURALITY OF CATALOGS A plurality of catalogs are maintained, and wherein each catalog of the plurality of catalogs includes data sets and attributes of the data sets. An indication that a new data set is to be defined is received. A selected catalog is determined from the plurality of catal... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100175068 | LIMITING THE AVAILABILITY OF COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES TO A DEVICE TO STIMULATE A USER OF THE DEVICE TO APPLY NECESSARY UPDATES Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for limiting the availability of computational resources to a device to stimulate a user of the device to apply necessary updates. Indication of the n update to the device is received and a determination is made ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100174867 | USING DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS TO DESTAGE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DATA FROM CACHE Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using different algorithms to destage different types of data from cache. A first destaging algorithm is used to destage a first type of data to a storage for a first duration. A second destaging algorithm is... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100174676 | DETERMINING MODIFIED DATA IN CACHE FOR USE DURING A RECOVERY OPERATION Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining modified data in cache for use during a recovery operation. An event is detected during which processing of writes to a storage device is suspended. A cache including modified data not destaged to... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100100764 | REDUNDANCY INFORMATION FOR ADJUSTING THRESHOLD FOR COMPONENT FAILURE IN A MULTI-LAYER SYSTEM A first unit and a second unit are provided in a multi-layer computing system, wherein the first unit is at a higher layer than the second unit in the multi-layer computing system, and wherein the first unit is a higher level unit and the second unit is a lower level un... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100095059 | DISTRIBUTED FILE SERVING ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM WITH METADATA STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION AND DATA ACCESS AT THE DATA SERVER CONNECTION SPEED Method, apparatus and program storage device that provides a distributed file serving architecture with metadata storage virtualization and data access at the data server connection speed is provided. A host issues a file access request including data target locations. ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100086077 | CONCURRENT ENABLEMENT OF PERSISTENT INFORMATION UNIT PACING Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, in which a logical path is established between a control unit and a channel over a fibre channel connection. Code for persistent information unit pacing is loaded into the control unit and the channel. An indica... | 04/08/2010 |
