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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057750 | File Transfer Using Standard Blocks and Standard-Block Identifiers Instead of transferring a large original file, such as a virtual-machine image file, from a source system to a target system, the original file is encoded to define a recipe file that is transferred. The recipe is then decoded to yield a duplicate of the original file o... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057789 | Low traffic failback remote copy The local storage performs remote copy to the remote storage. For low traffic failback remote copy, the remote storage performs a delta copy to the local storage, the delta being the difference between the remote storage and local storage. The local storage backs up sna... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057790 | SECURE VIRTUAL TAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH CONSOLE AND CATALOG MONITORING AND UPDATING A secure virtual tape management system with console and catalog monitoring and updating. The system includes at least one mainframe host processor having a catalog storing tape related information and having an operator console communicably attached thereto. A virtual ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057788 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING BACK UP HISTORY CLEANUP OPERATIONS FOR A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A method, system, and computer program product for implementing backup history cleanup operations for a database management system are provided. The method includes identifying a version control base (VCB) value for a most recently stored record in a history table, the ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057787 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLONING OF DISTRIBUTED AND STATEFUL SYSTEMS A method, system, and computer program product for implementing cloning operations in a distributed computing system are provided. The method includes preparing a database component of the system for a cloning operation. The preparation includes stopping activities occu... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049753 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING APPLICATION DATA IN A DATA REPLICATION SYSTEM Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049752 | Dynamic word translation system and method thereof A dynamic word translation system and the method thereof are provided. By simulating key-in for duplication operations, a word is extracted to a buffer area for translation and management. This solves the problem that word translations are often interfered with window s... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042661 | Rehosting Method Which Convert Mainframe System into Open System Provided is a rehosting method for converting a mainframe system environment into an open system environment. The rehosting method rebuilds hardware (HAV) and software (SAV) of a company-data processing mainframe system environment to be appropriate for an open system e... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BACKING UP A PHONEBOOK IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method for backing up a phonebook in an electronic device creates a backup file, copies data in the phonebook to the backup file, and sets an identification for the backup file. The system and method further attaches the backup file to an multimedia service... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042640 | Migration Apparatus Which Convert SAM/VSAM Files of Mainframe System into SAM/VSAM Files of Open System and Method for Thereof Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting a sequential access method (SAM)/virtual storage access method (VSAM) file of a mainframe system into an appropriate SAM/VSAM file for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: an information obtaining... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100037056 | METHOD TO SUPPORT PRIVACY PRESERVING SECURE DATA MANAGEMENT IN ARCHIVAL SYSTEMS An infrastructure for archiving data among a client, a broker, and a plurality of archives, wherein the client comprises: a backup agent configured to fragment and erasure encode the data to create a set of erasure encoded data fragments; a communications agent configur... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036895 | REPRESENTATION OF SYSTEM CLOCK CHANGES IN TIME BASED FILE SYSTEMS A plurality of data units with associated timestamps is stored in a time based file system, wherein a timestamp corresponds to a time indicated by a system clock. A time indicated by the system clock is changed while the plurality of data units is being stored. A plural... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036896 | Computer System and Method of Managing Backup of Data A backup is continued in a computer system even one storage device is stopped. In the computer system, a first storage device, upon reception of a data write request to a first storage area, stores the data in the first storage area and a second storage area, and transm... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036897 | STORAGE SYSTEM At least two devices having different characteristics are provided as one file system, and the file system stores a file in a device according to the file purpose. In file system operation, a device characteristic acquiring unit acquires characteristic information of th... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100037017 | HYBRID STORAGE APPARATUS AND LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS ASSIGNING METHOD Hybrid storage apparatus and logical block address assigning methods for the hybrid storage apparatus are provided. A hybrid storage apparatus includes a plurality of storage apparatuses having different writing methods, and a controller to combine the storage apparatus... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036796 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LOG STORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A ticket generating unit generates, for a processing request received from a user and an entity containing a series of processes to be executed based on the processing request, a ticket containing request identification information for identifying the processing request... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030754 | Data Backup Method A method in at least one embodiment allows for a two stage backup where the first stage backup is to a backup data unit, which will occur in under one hour, and the second stage backup is to other computer readable medium, which can occur over a period of at least twent... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030789 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM An active device attaches a sequential number representing a notification number to update record information for recording an event that data is stored, then notifies a preliminary device of the update record information, and, accumulates the update record information.... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030826 | PRODUCTION-ALTERNATE SYSTEM INCLUDING PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS AND ALTERNATE SYSTEM AS A BACKUP SYSTEM OF THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM The present invention provides an alternate system as a backup system of a production system for processing transactions. The alternate system includes a restoring unit for obtaining, from a storage unit of the production system that stores data including at least one u... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030827 | DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL STORAGE OF PORTABLE MEDIA FILES Storing a file on a virtual file system associated with a portable media drive. The virtual file system includes the portable media drive and allocated storage of a plurality of storage servers. The file is partitioned into a local portion and at least one remote portio... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030825 | File Management System and Method A proposal is made of a file management system and method capable of reliably deleting unnecessary data. In a file management console and method for reading or writing data of a file from or in a first volume, which is provided by a storage device, in response to a requ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100031063 | System for and Method of Remote Secure Backup Systems and methods for registering a module for backup, backing up a module, and restoring a backed up module are provided.... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD THA ALLOWS RELATIONAL DATA TO BE MODELED EFFICIENTLY AND SYNCHRONIZED WITHOUT CREATING DANGLING REFERENCES Methods and systems to maintain data integrity across a plurality of devices by reducing or preventing dangling references are provided. In one embodiment, all data objects are provided with reference IDs enabling reference to an extant version of an object. In another ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030824 | STATEMENT LOGGING IN DATABASES System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for logging of data manipulation language (DML) statements are described herein. An embodiment includes a database engine, a replication agent and a replication server whi... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100023565 | Separate Swap Files Corresponding to Different Virtual Machines in a Host Computer System A swap space is provided for a host computer system, where the swap space includes a plurality of swap files with each individual swap file for swapping data only for a single corresponding virtual machine (VM). The per-VM swap space is used solely by the single, corres... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023564 | SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION FOR FAULT TOLERANCE Subject matter disclosed herein relates to data management of multiple applications, and in particular, to fault tolerance for such management.... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023563 | Copying Files From One Directory To Another An aspect of the present invention stores files of a source directory in a target directory. In an embodiment, a unique identifier is generated for each of the files and a new location and a new name are generated for the file. The new location represents the specific s... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017444 | Continuous Data Protection of Files Stored on a Remote Storage Device Technologies are described herein for providing file-level CDP of files stored on a remote storage system. A client module executing on a client computer monitors for modifications made at the client computer to files or folders stored on a virtual storage volume provid... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100014676 | PRIVACY MANAGEMENT FOR TRACKED DEVICES A device, method, system and computer readable medium for the protection of private data while permitting the monitoring or tracking of electronic devices that are shared for both business and private purposes.... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017373 | ENCODER, DECODER, THEIR METHODS, PROGRAMS THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIA HAVING PROGRAMS RECORDED THEREON In encoding for putting one or more files and/or one or more files in a folder into a single archive file, original hierarchy information and standard hierarchy information generated by converting characters in a special character coding in each file name to characters ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017445 | BACKUP CONTROL METHOD AND BACKUP CONTROL DEVICE A backup control unit controls a normal backup process of backing up a file stored in a NAS device at file system level according to a task schedule set in advance, and controls a forcible backup process of forcibly backing up the file stored in the NAS device at file l... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100011034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COPYING A FILE A method, system and computer-usable medium for copying a file are disclosed. A file is stored in a memory of a system, where the file is associated with a location identifier of the memory. In response to a user interaction with a user int... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100011035 | Method and System for Handling Reallocated Blocks in a File System A system for managing a file system. In response to a user selecting an image of the file system to perform a rollback operation, each data block in the file system that is owned by the image is searched for. Then, it is determined whether a data block owned by the imag... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100006639 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING LOYALTY PROGRAM INFORMATION ON A PHONE A system for managing token image replacement is provided. The system includes a remote server, a token acceptance device, such as a personal computer (PC), connected to the remote server, a token, such as a phone, that can be read by the PC, and a token image server. U... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100011033 | METHOD FOR MAILBOX MIGRATION A method for mailbox migration includes creating a message ID map for the source and destination mailboxes, and storing the message ID map in a migration cache file that can also hold message ID persistence and message state indicator data. A precopy operation is perfor... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100002919 | Auto-Deletion of Image Related Data in an Imaging System A system for auto-deletion of image related data in an imaging system, includes an imaging system. The imaging system comprises a repository for storing image representative data, and is capable of archiving image representative data in the repository, and deleting imag... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100005126 | RECORD LEVEL FUZZY BACKUP A method, system, and computer program product for performing a backup operation in a computing environment is provided. A list of keys identifying a plurality of locked records is created at a start of the backup operation. If a first locked record of the plurality of ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100005127 | File operation apparatus A file operation apparatus connectable with a storage medium is disclosed. The storage medium stores therein multiple files. Each file contains a category information item defining a prescribed category of the file. The prescribed categories of the multiple files are in... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100005074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING DATA A method is disclosed for accessing data stored in at least one database, comprising: accessing: model data, representing a model defining the structure of the data, metamodel data, representing a metamodel defining the structure of the model, and rule data, representin... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090327361 | DATA REPLICATION FEEDBACK FOR TRANSPORT INPUT/OUTPUT Architecture for efficiently ensuring that data is stored to the desired destination datastore such as for replication processes. A copy of data (e.g., messages) sent to a datastore for storage is stored at an alternate location until a received signal indicates that th... | 12/31/2009 |
