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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185905 | Resource allocation in computing systems according to permissible flexibilities in the recommended resource requirements Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a first indicator that indicates a recommended resource requirement for an application is read. A second indicator that indicates a permissible flexibility in the recommended resource requirement for... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185498 | Data deduplication by separating data from meta data Provided are techniques for data deduplication. A chunk of data and a mapping of boundaries between file data and meta data in the chunk of data are received. The mapping is used to split the chunk of data into a file data stream and a meta data stream and to store ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176187 | Method, system, and program for enabling communication between nodes Provided are a method, system, and program performed at a local node to communicate with a remote node. A first communication protocol is used to communicate with the remote node to establish a connection for a second communication protocol. Data structures are crea... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176104 | Space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system Provided are techniques for space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system. A notification is received that one or more data objects have been logically deleted by deleting metadata about the one or more data objects, wherein the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161018 | Managing locks and transactions Under control of a first agent, a resource controlled by a second agent is locked with a first operation identifier. Under control of the second agent: a request is received to lock the resource controlled by the second agent with a second operation identifier for a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151206 | Modifying an order of processing of a task performed on a plurality of objects Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for modifying an order of processing of a task performed on a plurality of objects. A user selects a plurality of objects and a task to perform on the objects, and the initial order of processing of the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151051 | 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. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140725 | 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. The management system obtains information on ports on at le... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140486 | 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 ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131910 | System and article of manufacture for device selection Provided are a system and article of manufacture for device selection. A command is generated in a host, wherein the command is for a library manager not directly connected to the host. A device is selected from a subsystem in a storage library based on a preference... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127023 | 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 in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117169 | Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes Provided are a system and article of manufacture for performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes. Backup data sets on at least one machine in a network are associated with a backup node and a plurality of agent nodes in t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108613 | Detection and recovery of dropped writes in storage devices Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a request to write data to a storage medium is received. The data requested to be written to the storage medium is stored in a cache. A writing of the data is initiated to the storage medium. A perio... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107359 | Performing a changeover from a first virtual node to a second virtual node Apparatus for non-disruptive error recovery in a clustered system, comprises a node instance configuration activity quiescing component for quiescing configuration activity at a first virtual node instance; a node instance creation component for creating a second vi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098330 | Mapping of presentation material Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a video output by combining a first video input and a second video input. A first input image is accessed from the first video input and a second input image is accessed from the second video i... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095873 | Promoting content from one content management system to another content management system Provided are a method, system, and program for promoting content from one content management system to another content management system. Content from a first content management system satisfying a content criteria is determined. The first content management system ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095754 | Transparent autonomic data replication improving access performance for a storage area network aware file system Techniques are provided for distributing data. It is determined that a source storage device is becoming a bottleneck. One or more blocks to be moved from the source storage device to one or more other storage devices are identified. The one or more other storage de... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095691 | 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 ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090760 | Communicating in a computing system Provided are a computer readable medium and a system for communicating in a computing system. An example of the method includes establishing a local communications interface at a local site. This example also includes writing local site communication information to ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086792 | Demoting tracks from cache Provided are a method, system, and program for destaging a track from cache to a storage device. The destaged track is retained in the cache. Verification is made of whether the storage device successfully completed writing data. Indication is made of destaged track... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086711 | Threaded messaging in a computer storage system In one embodiment, a method comprises, using at least one processor, controlling communication between Service Level Agreement (SLA) processes of an SLA services module and at least one I/O performance gateway; and using a thread pair associated with each of the at ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086572 | Method, system, and program for restoring data to a file Provided is a method, system and program for backing up the contents of a source storage device as an object in a data storage subsystem wherein the object contains image data representing the contents of the source storage device, and restoring the contents of the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8060587 | Methods and apparatus for launching device specific applications on storage area network components A storage area network (SAN) of the type has a plurality of components including one or more digital data processors in communication with one or more storage devices via a switching fabric. An interface process, e.g., resident on a manager digital data processor, p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055855 | Varying access parameters for processes to access memory addresses in response to detecting a condition related to a pattern of processes access to memory addresses Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for varying access parameters for processes to access memory addresses in response to detecting a condition related to a pattern of processes access to memory addresses. A monitored condition is detected duri... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055744 | Resolution of group membership for resources Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a plurality of resources are grouped into a plurality of groups, wherein one group may be included in another in the plurality of groups, and wherein the plurality of resources and the plurality of g... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055623 | Article of manufacture and system for merging metadata on files in a backup storage Provided are a system and article of manufacture for merging metadata on files in a backup storage. A query is received for information on files from a file system for a client node. A determination is made of metadata for files in a backup storage for the client no... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055618 | Data deduplication by separating data from meta data Provided are techniques for data deduplication. A chunk of data and a mapping of boundaries between file data and meta data in the chunk of data are received. The mapping is used to split the chunk of data into a file data stream and a meta data stream and to store ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041698 | 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 a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041681 | Method for performing a backup by querying a backup infrastructure One aspect of the invention is a method for backing up data. An example of the method includes querying a backup infrastructure to ascertain backup capabilities of the backup infrastructure. This example also may include broadcasting the capabilities of the backup i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032834 | Context-based user assistance Provided are techniques for providing context-based user assistance. A request from a user for user assistance content for a first configurable element is received. One or more rules are retrieved for the first configurable element, wherein at least one of the rules... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032740 | Update in-use flash memory without external interfaces A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable non-volatile memory references, creating a temporary, volatile-memory fi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032702 | Disk storage management of a tape library with data backup and recovery Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein configuration information for a first plurality of storage devices is sent to be stored on at least one removable storage media of a removable storage media library. Data corresponding to the first pl... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024517 | 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 amo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024298 | Backing-up and restoring files including files referenced with multiple file names Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for backing-up and restoring files including files referenced with multiple file names. Files to backup are determined. A determination is made from the files to backup files referenced with multiple names. A... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7991736 | Article of manufacture and system for autonomic data caching and copying on a storage area network aware file system using copy services Techniques are provided for processing a request. When the request is to read a data unit, information regarding the closest physical block locations is returned. When the request is to write to the data unit, information regarding one or more source block locations... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987326 | Performing backup operations for a volume group of volumes Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for performing backup operations for a volume group of volumes. Information on a volume group associating a plurality of volumes and backup settings is maintained. A volume group is selected to which the back... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987192 | Hybrid data model and user interaction for data sets in a user interface A first data model in which a large dataset is stored is maintained, wherein a first set of operations is allowed to be performed on the first data model. The first data model is reduced to a second data model that is of a smaller size than the first data model. Sel... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984022 | Space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system Provided are techniques for space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system. A notification is received that one or more data objects have been logically deleted by deleting metadata about the one or more data objects, wherein the ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978427 | Device for embedding information into data An object of the present invention is to embed information while making effective use of a recording area at the time of recording data. To this end, a controller in a tape drive includes: a storage unit which stores information desired to be embedded; an acquisitio... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974950 | Applying a policy criteria to files in a backup image Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for applying a policy criteria to files in a backup image. A backup image of files in a file system is maintained. A policy is applied to the files in the backup image to determine files satisfying a policy c... | 07/05/2011 |
