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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D586207 | Fastener | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487162 | Method and data processing system with data replication There is provided a technique capable of executing a predetermined processing while continuing a database processing. Firstly, the database to be operated is switched from the main database to a duplicate database. The predetermined processing is executed to the mai... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487298 | Disk array device, method for controlling the disk array device and storage system A disk array device is equipped with a plurality of input/output channels that receive data input/output requests from an external device, a plurality of cache memories provided for the corresponding respective input/output channels, each of the cache memories conne... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486142 | Radio frequency power amplifying module with hetero junction bipolar transistor The present invention is directed to compensate electric properties of an RF power module depending on changes with time, temperature dependency, variations, and the like of grounded emitter current amplification factor of an HBT. A compound semiconductor integrated... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7464222 | Storage system with heterogenous storage, creating and copying the file systems, with the write access attribute While a large amount of files can be intensively managed, the capacity scalability is limited by the number of magnetic disk drives and the number of magnetic tape drives which can be connected to a system, thereby failing to provide satisfactory long-term managemen... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463633 | Packet switching system, packet switching network and packet switching method Upon initialization, a VPC is set up between edge nodes. A control processor of each node creates an IP address/VPC mapping table using IP routing information and an address mapping table mapping correspondence between IP addresses and ATM addresses and supplied by ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464221 | Storage system, storage device, and control method thereof A storage system including a storage device 1 which includes: media 50 for storing data from a host computer 2; a medium controller 14 for controlling the media; a plurality of channel controllers 11 for connecting to the host comp... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464188 | Computer system controlling accesses to storage apparatus Since no control of accesses made by a computer as accesses to a storage apparatus is executed, the computer can be used illegally to steal and improperly change data stored in the storage apparatus. Thus, an access-control mechanism external to the computer is cons... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463876 | Communication semiconductor integrated circuit, communication electronic component and wireless communication system A communication semiconductor integrated circuit includes a phase control loop and an amplitude control loop. A gain of a variable gain amplifier when it is detected from an output of the comparator that the amplitudes of the reference signal and the feedback signal... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464170 | Content delivery server and terminal apparatus During the reception of a content delivery service, if the service is continued by switching a communication path, a temporary interruption occurs upon the switching of a session. There are cases where the same service cannot be continued if the communication speed ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463635 | Packet communication system with QoS control function A packet communication system of the present invention has first mode, second mode and third mode to apply to input packets. The first mode is a mode that decides priority of the packet by at least one of the address information and the application information, the ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463172 | Signal processing device and method, signal processing program, and recording medium where the program is recorded A signal processing device which outputs a discrete signal composed of a string of the sampling values and parameters m signal. The signal processing device includes a sampling circuit which samples an input signal and outputs a discrete signal, multiple function ge... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461224 | Remote copy system In asynchronous remote copy, there is time difference between data update and remote copy in a primary storage system. The primary storage system loses data unreflected on a secondary storage system in disaster and cannot control the amount of data lost. The primary... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460383 | Storage apparatus, controller and control method Proposed is a highly reliable storage apparatus with fast access speed and low power consumption, as well as a controller and control method for controlling such a storage apparatus. This storage apparatus is equipped with a flash memory that provides a storage exte... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460156 | Signal transmission method between television camera and video apparatus and apparatus using the method A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal between a television camera and a video apparatus. When time-division multiplexing parallel image signals and transmitting them as a serial signal from the camera side to the video apparatus side, a control signal des... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461245 | Storage subsystem and storage controller A storage subsystem and a storage controller adapted to take advantage of high data transfer rates of fiber channels while offering enhanced reliability and availability and capable of connecting with a plurality of host computers having multiple different interface... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461226 | Multi-site remote-copy system Two storage areas are created in a first storage subsystem, a synchronous remote copy is performed from a first storage area included in the first storage subsystem to a storage area included in a second storage subsystem, and an asynchronous remote copy is performe... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461225 | Storage system and replication creation method thereof In a storage system having a plurality of control units each connected with a plurality of disk units, it is provided that a replication is created in the volume of the disk units connected to different control units. The replication creation unit of a given control... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460885 | Mobile telephone A mobile telephone in which a camera portion is rotatably provided in a coupling portion for rotatably coupling a first casing and a second casing to each other, and a main display part and a manipulating part are provided in a casing surface and is hidden when the ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457105 | Vacuum switchgear system and kit for system A vacuum switchgear system, which comprises a plurality of vacuum switchgears each comprising a vacuum container for accommodating the desired number of vacuum switches selected from a disconnecting switch or load break switch, an earth switch and an vacuum circuit ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456428 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor film and image display device A semiconductor thin film is manufactured by scanning laser light or a substrate onto an arbitrary region of the semiconductor thin film and irradiating a laser thereon. The semiconductor thin film is formed by the substantially belt-shaped crystal being crystallize... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455103 | Electronic equipment provided with cooling system An electronic equipment is provided, which comprises a liquid-cooling system and a cooling fan as a cooling system, efficiently cools the liquid-cooling system, and reduces fan noise. The electronic equipment is provided with a liquid-cooling system, in which heat g... | 11/25/2008 |
| D581577 | Floor lamp | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457981 | Anomaly notification control in disk array In a storage device incorporating a plurality of kinds of disk drives with different interfaces, the controller performs sparing on a disk drive, whose errors that occur during accesses exceed a predetermined number, by swapping it with a spare disk drive that is pr... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457925 | Storage control method and system To enable favorable control of the storage of electronic information, a management device connected communicably to one or more storage control devices that are connected communicably to at least one of a plurality of storage devices refers to resource information r... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457856 | Storage configuration changing apparatus and method thereof A storage configuration is automatically changed depending on a storage configuration change schedule which is defined previously by an administrator. Moreover, it is verified whether a storage configuration can be changed or not at the time designated when the sche... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457442 | Authentication system by fingerprint A fingerprint identification system comprising: an IC card having a tamper-resistance; and a reader/writer having a tamper-resistance for reading/writing information from/into the IC card. In the reader/writer, a fingerprint image, as read by a fingerprint input uni... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454591 | Storage system control method, storage system, and storage apparatus storing information relating a first logical unit number (LUN) used to access a volume by a host computer and a second LUN used to access the volume by another storage system with remote copy procedure A method controls a storage system including a first storage apparatus including a first storage volume to store data therein, a second storage apparatus including a second storage volume to store data therein, the first and second storage apparatuses being communic... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454584 | Storage control system and storage controller A storage control system that makes it possible to integrate the setting of access between initiators and targets connected to a communication network and the setting of LUN security for the targets. The storage control system has: a host computer having one or more... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454583 | Storage controller and control method for dynamically accomodating increases and decreases in difference data In a storage controller which stores data provided from a host system, creates a snapshot, which is a data image of a production volume at a given point in time, at regular or irregular intervals, and holds difference data of the snapshot in a pool volume, multiple ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454582 | Initial copy system A storage apparatus installed in a first site generates a snapshot of a copy source logical device in an intermediate logical device. Next, an external storage apparatus including a logical device corresponding to the intermediate logical device is disconnected from... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452181 | Plant facility A plant facility in which lubricant supply equipment for supplying a lubricant to rotor bearings and a speed reducer can be dispensed with. The plant facility comprises a gas turbine rotor of a gas turbine that serves as a prime mover driven by expansion work of a w... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452177 | Working mechanism for construction machine A parallel support member is constituted by a pair of links that are respectively arranged on the left and right sides of a second boom. These links are connected between a first boom and a third boom. Thus, the second boom is moved to the left or right side by an o... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453905 | Mobile node, mobile agent and network system A mobile node moves from a first IP (Internet Protocol) network to a second IP network in a network system in which the first IP network capable of executing communication in accordance with both first and second kinds of IPs and the second IP network capable of exe... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451204 | Storage network management system and method In a computer system having a storage device switches and hosts respectively connected by a network, in accordance with an ID of a logical volume of the storage device and an IP address of a host, access control configuration of the logical volume is performed relat... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449157 | Catalytic exhaust gas decomposition apparatus and exhaust gas decomposition method A catalytic exhaust gas decomposition spirals an exhaust gas containing therein a substance to be decomposed and a reactant gas, rectifies the spiral flow, and lets the substance to be decomposed react with the reactant gas after the spiral flow has been rectified. ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451285 | Computer systems, management computers and storage system management method A computer includes a management computer connected to a host computer, first and second primary storage systems, first and second secondary storage systems, a primary external storage system connected to the first and second primary storage systems and a secondary ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451473 | Video distribution method and video distribution system A video distribution method and a video distribution system connected to a transmission path such as the Internet. The system has a video signal input unit, an encoder for converting the video signal into a digitally compressed image data, an image accumulation and ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451485 | Information processing unit having tamper-resistant system A malfunction detection system is provided that can continue or terminate processing appropriately even if a malfunction occurs in an information processing unit. In this regard, the information processing unit receives branch direction information, carries out a co... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450921 | Communication semiconductor integrated circuit device for use in a mobile communication device for correcting variations in the oscillation frequency of a transmission oscillator by calibrating a current of the charge pump The invention provides a communication semiconductor integrated circuit (RF IC) that, when a transmission oscillator is incorporated into a semiconductor chip, secures the oscillation operation over a wide frequency range, prevents a deterioration of a transmission ... | 11/11/2008 |
