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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185667 | Storage system comprising power saving function A storage system constituted such that power saving to an administrator-desired storage device can be performed from a management device. That is, the storage system comprises a power-saving indication receiving section for receiving from a management console a powe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185640 | Graphical user interface (GUI) for administering a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) network implementing media aggregation A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185159 | Wireless communication system A wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of base stations and a call processing control unit is disclosed. The wireless terminal, upon reception of the notification information from any of the base stations, judges whether the area ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184084 | Liquid crystal display control device There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having a low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement process... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182960 | Metal separator for fuel cells and fabricating method thereof A metal separator for fuel cells formed with a metal plate and provided between cells accumulated, in which the metal plate is formed like trapezoidal irregularities to separate channels for a fuel gas from ones for an oxidant gas. Slope portions are formed after fo... | 05/22/2012 |
| RE43391 | Database program with automatic creation of user features Integrated document management system automatically creates pull down lists and pop up buttons based on the project specifications. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176208 | Storage system and operating method of storage system An object is to improve reliability and availability of a storage system. A single service processor (SVP 20) manages a plurality of storage apparatuses 10. The storage apparatus 10 includes a channel substrate 11, a drive substrat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176123 | Collaborative communication platforms A collaborative communication system is disclosed. The collaborative communication system integrates a number of electronic communication tools to meet the collaborative communication needs for an enterprise, family members or friends. The collaborative communicatio... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175929 | Providing electronic access to consumer-customized nonverbal information regarding products and services Generic information provided by printed and online catalogs may be supplemented or replaced by information that is customized for and/or related to the consumer, enabling a third party to more fully understand the purchase decision and thus offer more informed feedb... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175598 | Wireless communication system A wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of base stations and a call processing control unit is disclosed. The wireless terminal, upon reception of the notification information from any of the base stations, judges whether the area ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175211 | Method of stress corrosion cracking mitigation for nuclear power plant structural materials The object of this invention is to provide a method for mitigating a stress corrosion cracking of reactor structural material which makes it possible to suppress the rise in the main steam line dose rate without secondary effects such as a rise in the concentration ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174156 | Rotating electrical machine with different lamination steel kinds and spacing A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171324 | Information processing device, data writing method, and program for the same An information processing apparatus comprises: a creation unit creating a preset number of pieces of second data by duplicating first data, and holding the second data in a predetermined area or sending the second data to another information processing apparatus; a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171245 | Data migrating method taking end time into consideration There is provided a data migrating method including the steps of: calculating, in a case where data stored in a volume is migrated to another volume, a required period of time for migrating the data based on a size of data to be migrated and volume configuration inf... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171241 | Computer system, computer and method for managing performance based on I/O division ratio Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a plurality of virtual storage systems coupled to the host computer, a storage system coupled to the plurality of virtual storage systems, and a management computer. The storage system includes storage areas p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171214 | Storage subsystem, storage system, and method of controlling power supply to the storage subsystem Provided is storage subsystem including: a storage unit containing multiple disk groups; and a control device for controlling the storage unit. The storage unit includes at least one redundant disk group composed of at least a first disk group and a second disk grou... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171081 | Internal electronic mail within a collaborative communication system Techniques for exchanging internal electronic mail over an open data network within a collaborative communication system are disclosed. The exchanging of the internal electronic mail does not rely upon an email address commonly known to include an @ sign. Each of re... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171062 | File management system Since both a physical storage place and a logical storage place in a storage system are separately managed as a directory structure, or a hierarchical structure, even in such a case that the physical storage place has been changed, the logical storage place which is... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170996 | Storage subsystem The data up to a point of time whereat failure has occurred will be restored at high speed at a remote site without imposing any burden on a host. The first storage system on the master side processes an I/O request from the host, and as a result of I/O processing t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170912 | Database structure and front end In one embodiment, a method of analyzing online advertising information includes the steps of receiving consumer data from client computers, creating a database based on the consumer data, receiving user selected values from a front end, and extracting data from the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169868 | Method for detecting surface defects in patterned media An optical defect detection method for patterned media includes: irradiating a laser beam onto a patterned medium and obtaining reflected light by reflection very close to a sample; outputting the reflected light as an analog electrical signal from an optical receiv... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168909 | Vacuum switchgear A vacuum switchgear comprising a vacuum container, two fixed contacts and two movable contacts for being in contact with and out of contact with the fixed contacts which are disposed in the vacuum container, and two operation rods linked to the each movable contact,... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168549 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and substrate processing apparatus There are provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a substrate processing apparatus by which the quality of a silicon nitride film can be improved. The method comprises: (a) supplying a silicon-containing gas into a process chamber accommodating... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166548 | Computer system and method for scanning computer virus According to the present invention, a timeout caused by executing a virus scan is avoided. A computer system has a first computer, a second computer coupled to the first computer, and a storage system coupled to the first computer and the second computer. The first ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166270 | Storage control apparatus, data management system and data management method for determining storage heirarchy based on a user policy A storage control apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of connecting units connected to one or more host computers and one or more hard disk drives as storage media for storing data, one or more non-volatile storage media which are of a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166235 | Flash memory storage system A flash memory storage system has a plurality of flash memory devices comprising a plurality of flash memories, and a controller having an I/O processing control unit for accessing a flash memory device specified by a designated access destination in an I/O request ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164053 | Mass analyzer and mass analyzing method There has been a problem that both detection sensitivity and throughput cannot be improved simultaneously by a conventional MS/MS analysis method. A mass analyzer having an ion trap for ejecting ions in a specific mass range, a collisional dissociation part f... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161303 | Storage apparatus with power usage control function and power usage control method in storage apparatus A storage apparatus includes plural trays each incorporating plural HDDs and a controller that controls access to the HDDs in response to an access request from a host apparatus. The controller also includes a table, in which standard power and a start-up power supp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161262 | Storage area dynamic assignment method A storage system allocates a data storage area in response to an access request from a first computer if the capacity of a first physical storage device configuring a first logical storage area, provided to the first computer, is equal to or lower than a predetermin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161235 | Storage system and data erasing method This storage system includes a server management unit for managing in a server a maximum overwrite count and an overwrite count for overwriting the overwrite data in a disk cache, a controller cache for temporarily storing overwrite data sent from the server in the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161133 | Network storage system with a clustered configuration sharing a namespace, and control method therefor Provided is a storage system as follows. A server holds a management table that serves to manage a mount point of a file system. The management table stores a file system identifier that uniquely identifies the file system within the storage system, mount point info... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161006 | Database management method, database management apparatus, and database management program In order to reduce a period of time required for a database operation and maintenance job, provided is a database management method in a database management apparatus that manages a database stored in a storage apparatus including: executing load processing of stori... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160146 | Video coding method and apparatus for calculating motion vectors of the vertices of a patch of an image and transmitting information of horizontal and vertical components of the motion vectors A method and apparatus for coding an image includes calculation of motion vectors of vertices of a patch in an image being encoded and transmitting information of horizontal and vertical components of the motion vectors of the vertices and information specifying tha... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159989 | Relay network system and terminal adaptor apparatus The optimum relay route is selected out of a plurality of relay routes to a server. In order to solve a multirouting problem, introduced is a multi routing system for determining a relay route on the basis of a label corresponding to a terminal of an access source a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156315 | Information processing apparatus and operation method of the same Provided is a service processor (SVP) 10 that validates a configuration of a storage system 1 having a server device 30, a storage device 20 providing the server device with a storage area, and a FC switch 40 coupling the storage d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155726 | Magnetic detection coil and apparatus for magnetic field measurement A magnetic detection coil made of a single wire is constructed of one of superconducting and metallic materials. Four second-order differential coils are arranged so that a geometric figure obtained by connecting the respective centers of the four differential coils... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155199 | Video coding method and apparatus for calculating motion vectors of the vertices of a patch of an image and transmitting information of horizontal and vertical components of the motion vectors A method and apparatus for coding an image includes calculation of motion vectors of vertices of a patch in an image being encoded and transmitting information of horizontal and vertical components of the motion vectors of the vertices and information specifying tha... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151079 | Computer system, storage area allocation method, and management computer Disclosed is a system and method for preventing deterioration in I/O performance of a computer resulted from a use of the same physical disk among different logical volumes. A volume management server 1010 groups together logical volumes which use the same ph... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151078 | Method for rearranging a logical volume in a network connected storage system A method for rearranging a logical volume including arranging a logical volume rearranging program on a particular server and using the logical volume rearranging program to acquire server/storage mapping information from each server and performance information from... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149868 | Interface board and optical transmission equipment A circuit capable of processing signals of different signal types is provided for identifying the signal type by the signal type setting from an administrator or by the implementation of the optical module, thereby selecting a signal processor to be used. An OTN fra... | 04/03/2012 |
