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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080307014 | COMPRESSING FILES USING A MINIMAL AMOUNT OF MEMORY A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program code for compressing a file in a computer. An amount of memory available for use in the computer is determined. A size of the file is determined. A chunk size is determined based on the size of the file and ... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080307015 | Backing Up A Database Backing up a database, including providing, in the database by a DBMS, at least one record with at least one backup field, the backup field being a data element that controls the backing up of the record, and backing up, by a backup module, the a record in dependence up... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080307016 | STORAGE, ORGANIZATION AND SEARCHING OF DATA STORED ON A STORAGE MEDIUM Methods and apparatuses for storing, organizing and searching files stored in a storage device. Backup files may be stored in snapshot-dependent and/or snapshot-independent paths. The backup files may be stored with additional attributes that can be used for searching a... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080306978 | INDEX AGING AND MERGING Systems and methods for processing an index are described. An index may be merged with another index of comparable age and size into a single index. Since older indexes are less likely to need updating, they are “set aside” to age based on certain adaptive criteria ... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080307017 | Searching and Restoring of Backups Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for searching for and presenting backups. A first search result including a first version of an item is presented. The first version is associated with a first date range having a first start date and... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080307018 | Efficient Data Backup Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes identifying an item for segmented backup according to one or more specified criteria, and performing a first backup of the item in... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080301201 | Storage System and Method of Managing Data Using Same The storage system includes a file server connected to a host apparatus and configured to provide a directory in a file system having a directory structure to the host apparatus, a storage subsystem connected to the file server and configured to provide a volume for sto... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080301202 | METHOD FOR SPOOLING EXPERIMENTAL DATA Methods and system for efficient collection and storage of experimental data allow experimental data from high-throughput, feature-rich data collection systems, such as high-throughput cell data collection systems to be efficiently collected, stored, managed and display... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080301387 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SECURING USER-DEFINABLE DATA OF A FRANKING MACHINE In a method for data backup of a franking machine in which, in a data backup step, a connection is established between the franking machine and a remote data center via a communication network, data stored in the franking machine are transmitted to the data center as ba... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080294704 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Providing an information processing apparatus and information processing method that prevent the occurrence of inconsistencies between restored files and other files, thereby improving ease of use. When restoring a backup virtual tree, the owner of each file and directo... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080294703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING THE ABSOLUTE PATH NAME OF AN OPEN FILE SYSTEM OBJECT FROM ITS FILE DESCRIPTOR A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for obtaining an absolute path name for an open file system object. A file descriptor for the open file system object is identified in response to a process in a first software partition opening a fi... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080288559 | Exchange server standby solution using mailbox level replication with crossed replication between two active exchange servers This invention provides the capability to plan, monitor and control post-failure switching of user mail access hosted on Microsoft Exchange servers at the granularity of individual user mailboxes. It offers a convenient point-and-click mechanism for achieving a very com... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288560 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD USING DATA MIGRATION Selection of a migration source volume and a migration destination volume of an implemented migration is accepted. Based on a completion date and time of the implemented migration and an update date and time of the volume, it is determined whether or not the selected mi... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288811 | Multi-node replication systems, devices and methods Replication techniques are presented. According to an embodiment of a method, a node of a replicated storage network is assigned to be an owner of a data block to issue write memory block commands. The network includes at least two nodes including the node assigned to b... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080281881 | RECONCILIATION OF LOCAL AND REMOTE BACKUP DATA Provided are a system, an article of manufacture, and a computer program product, wherein a first set of backup data is stored in a first computational device and a second set of backup data is stored in a second computational device. Metadata corresponding to the first... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281882 | 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 dis... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281880 | METHOD FOR STORING DATA FOR RETRIEVAL AND TRANSFER Provided is a method, system and program for storing data for later retrieval and for transfer within a storage hierarchy. A data storage subsystem stores both individual user files and also managed files, each managed file comprising an aggregation of multiple user fil... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281877 | BACKING STORE RE-INITIALIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A method, device, and system are provided for re-initializing a backing store in a data storage system. More specifically, when all snapshots associated with a specified backing store are either being deleted or are marked for deletion the backing store is re-initialize... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281878 | METHOD FOR STORING MEDIA CAPTURED USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method for updating data in a media storage location includes: storing an identity on a portable electronic device, the identity allowing access to the media storage location; storing a file in a device memory of the portable electronic device, the file being captured... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281879 | STORAGE CONTROLLER, AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME The storage controller of the present invention can efficiently execute recovery by using the storage contents of the primary volume and of the base volume as much as possible. The difference between the primary volume and the base volume is managed by using difference ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281796 | Desktop, stream-based, information management system A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the docum... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080275926 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COPYING DATA A storage system comprises a primary storage system comprising a primary storage apparatus and a primary control apparatus for controlling the primary storage apparatus; and a secondary storage system comprising a secondary storage apparatus and secondary control appara... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275923 | METHOD FOR THE EXPUNGEMENT OF BACKUP VERSIONS OF FILES ON SERVER TARGETS THAT ARE CONFIGURED TO BE UPDATED SEQUENTIALLY The present invention relates to a method for expunging backup versions of files that are stored at target servers, wherein the target servers are configured to be sequentially updated. The method comprises uploading a predetermined base file to a backup target server f... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275927 | TRANSFER OF TABLE INSTANCES BETWEEN DATABASES A system and computer program product for transferring N table instances X1, X2, . . . , XN of a table T from a source database S to destination databases D1, D2, . . . , DN, respectively. The method is i... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275911 | EMULATED STORAGE SYSTEM Systems and methods for efficient storage of data are provided. For instance, a method that includes acts of receiving a data stream to be stored on a first storage system, the data stream comprising a data object and metadata that describes attributes of the data objec... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275925 | System and Method for Generating Consistent Images of a Set of Data Objects A system and method efficiently generates a set of parallel persistent consistency point images (PCPIs) of volumes configured as a SVS and served by a plurality of nodes interconnected as a cluster. A volume operations daemon (VOD) executing on a node of the cluster is ... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275924 | Bare Metal Recovery From Backup Media To Virtual Machine A legacy computer system receives a hard drive or other hardware failure. Rather than attempting to rebuild the computer system or recover selected data, which may require locating discontinued hardware or even software, a virtual machine image is created from a previou... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080270490 | System and Method for Replication, Integration, Consolidation and Mobilisation of Data The system for replication, integration, consolidation and mobilisation of data according to the present invention provides a flexible framework of functionally autonomous and distributable modules with the main advantage of scalability, to simplify data integration, pr... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC ARCHIVAL AND RETRIEVAL OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS The system receives an electronic communication, reviews the electronic communication to determine content of the electronic communication, applies rules to the content to determine a category associated with the electronic communication, wherein the rules relate to at ... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080263112 | Method and system for electronic file lifecycle management A method and system for managing a file lifecycle is disclosed. The method incorporates a virtual file cabinet having virtual drawers. Files are moved from drawer to drawer throughout their lifecycle in accordance with policies associated with each drawer. The files are... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263109 | Seeding replication Seeding replication is disclosed. One or more but not all files stored on a deduplicated storage system are selected to be replicated. One or more segments referred to by the selected one or more but not all files are determined. A data structure is created that is used... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263110 | Apparatus and Method for Storing Data The present application provides a storage apparatus for storing data. The storage apparatus comprises storage means for storing data, committing means for committing the availability of a certain storage space to a source device, detecting means for detecting the avail... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263007 | MANAGING ARCHIVED DATA This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing archived data. For example, software for archiving data may receive a request to archive an unstructured data object and archive the unstructured data object into an archive obje... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263111 | STORAGE OPERATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND METHOD AND A STORAGE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER A managing computer (manager) manages replication of data areas inside a storage or among storages. A storage volume management module of the manager manages policy of the volume and its properties. When replication of a volume is set, a volume of a replication destinat... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263395 | EMBEDDED DEVICE AND IMAGE LOADING METHOD THEREOF An embedded device (10) includes an image module (11) and an image invoking module (13). The image module for storing all working images of an operating system of the embedded device includes an image sharing sub-module (110), an application ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263108 | System, Method, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules Systems, methods, and software for archiving structured data and associated unstructured data associated are disclosed. Particularly, the structured and unstructured data are archived such that the structured data and the unstructured data remain associated to each othe... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080256146 | Query processing method for stream data processing systems A stream data processing system capable of highly reliable and highly usable real time data processing, is provided with: (1) a mechanism of copying some or all of stream data, and archiving the stream data in a non-volatile memory to allow real time data and archive da... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256143 | Cluster storage using subsegmenting Cluster storage is disclosed. A data stream or a data block is received. The data stream or the data block is broken into segments. For each segment, a cluster node is selected, and a portion of the segment smaller than the segment is identified that is a duplicate of a... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256144 | Storage Profile Generation for Network-Connected Portable Storage Devices A data storage system comprises a plurality of portable data storage devices (12) coupled via a network (10). Each of the portable data storage devices (12) has an associated storage profile, which defines a which data objects will be stored in the ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256145 | Apparatus for Migrating Data Between Heterogeneous Data Storage Devices A method for migrating data between heterogeneous data storage devices within a storage area network is disclosed. A first virtualizer presents stored data as a first virtual disk, and then communicates a managed disk representation of the first virtual disk to a second... | 10/16/2008 |
