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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131126 | Mirroring Solution in Cloud Storage Environment A system configured to provide access to shared storage includes a first network node configured to provide access to the shared storage to a first plurality of client stations. The first network node includes a first cache memory module configured to store first data c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131323 | SYSTEM INCLUDING A VIRTUAL DISK A client configured to be connected and disconnected from a network includes: a memory storing a local mirrored copy of an image stored on a virtual disk server connected to the network; and a driver configured to access both the image stored on the virtual disk server ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131127 | ADVANCED CONTENTION DETECTION A multiple computer system disclosed in which n computers (M1, M2 . . . Mn) each run a different portion of a single application program written to execute only on a single computer. Local memory of each computer is maintained by updating all computer with... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131289 | MULTIPATH SWITCHING OVER MULTIPLE STORAGE SYSTEMS A system comprises a first storage system, a second storage system, a plurality of switches, and a server connected with the first storage system via a first group of switches and connected with the second storage system via a second group of switches. The first group a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONSISTENT USER NAME-SPACE ON NETWORKED DEVICES Implementing a consistent user name-space on networked computing devices includes various components and methods. When a network connection between a local or host computing device and one or more remote computing devices is present, remote items are represented using t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110111 | CACHE DEFEAT DETECTION AND CACHING OF CONTENT ADDRESSED BY IDENTIFIERS INTENDED TO DEFEAT CACHE Systems and methods for cache defeat detection are disclosed. Moreover, systems and methods for caching of content addressed by identifiers intended to defeat cache are further disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may b... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110108 | Computer System with Cooperative Cache A server receives information that identifies which chunks are stored in local caches at client computers and receives a request to evict a chunk from a local cache of a first one of the client computers. The server determines whether the chunk stored at the local cache... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110109 | CACHING ADAPTED FOR MOBILE APPLICATION BEHAVIOR AND NETWORK CONDITIONS Systems and methods for caching adapted for mobile application behavior and network conditions are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of determining cacheability of content received for... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110112 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR CACHE DEFEAT DETECTION AND CACHING OF CONTENT ADDRESSED BY IDENTIFIERS INTENDED TO DEFEAT CACHE Systems and methods for cache defeat detection are disclosed. Moreover, systems and methods for caching of content addressed by identifiers intended to defeat cache are further disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for optimizi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110110 | REQUEST AND RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS BASED ADAPTATION OF DISTRIBUTED CACHING IN A MOBILE NETWORK Systems and methods of request and response characteristics based adaptation of distributed caching in a mobile network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of collecting information ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084385 | Network Cache Architecture There is described a method and apparatus for sending data through one or more packet data networks. A reduced size packet is sent from a packet sending node towards a cache node, the reduced size packet including in its payload a pointer to a payload data segment store... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084382 | ON-THE-FLY REVERSE MAPPING In accordance with the invention, embodiments of a DNS server, a DNS proxy process, and an intermediate server (IMS) are described. The DNS server, DNS proxy process, and intermediate server (IMS) described herein utilize a destination IP address for a destination devic... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084383 | Distributed Data Storage The present invention relates to a distributed data storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes. Using unicast and multicast transmission, a server application may write data in the storage system. When writing data, at least two storage nodes are selected ba... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084381 | Virtual Desktop Configuration And Operation Techniques Techniques for configuring and operating a virtual desktop session are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, an inter-partition communication channel can be established between a virtualization platform and a virtual machine. The inter-partition communication ch... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084384 | DISTRIBUTED CACHE FOR STATE TRANSFER OPERATIONS A network arrangement that employs a cache having copies distributed among a plurality of different locations. The cache stores state information for a session with any of the server devices so that it is accessible to at least one other server device. Using this arrang... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING DATA IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a signal to record a media stream, and recording the media stream in a first file that has a preconfigured length. If the media stream being recorded exceeds the preconfigured length then a second fil... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072526 | METHOD AND NODE FOR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRONIC CONTENT IN A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK The present invention relates to a method and node for efficiently distributing electronic content in a content distribution network (CDN) comprising a plurality of cache nodes. Embodiments of the present invention include a virtual node lo... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072525 | Extending Caching Network Functionality To An Existing Streaming Media Server A content delivery network (CDN) includes multiple cluster sites, including sites with streaming media servers, caching servers and storage devices accessible to the caching servers for storing streaming content. Interface software is configured to initiate retrieval, b... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054294 | Storage device for data sharing A storage device for data sharing comprises a memory module, a data storage space and a public program wherein the public program has a communications module, a management module, a partition module and a transmission/reception module, the management module is used to m... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054295 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OR ACQUIRING THE CONTENTS OF A NETWORK RESOURCE FOR A MOBILE DEVICE An apparatus and method for providing the contents of a network resource to a mobile device are disclosed, the apparatus including: an acquiring module for acquiring the current contents of the network resource; and an adaptive filtering module for extracting the differ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054296 | CONSTANT ACCESS GATEWAY AND DE-DUPLICATED DATA CACHE SERVER An Constant Access Gateway provides secure access for remote mobile computing users to centrally stored data without requiring a VPN connection or a direct connection to the LAN in which the data resides. A Cache Server works alone or in conjunction with the Constant Ac... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047221 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FACILITATING ACCESS TO STORAGE AMONG MULTIPLE COMPUTERS Multiple computers in a cluster maintain respective sets of identifiers of neighbor computers in the cluster for each of multiple named resource. A combination of the respective sets of identifiers define a respective tree formed by the respective sets of identifiers fo... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047220 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE AND DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM According to one embodiment, a data transfer device is provided. The data transfer device is configured to transfer data between a plurality of data transceivers and at least one memory having a first memory area. When one of the data transceivers has acquired an exclus... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120030306 | RAPID MOVEMENT SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL DEVICES IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR In a virtualized computer system having at least two computers connected via a network, the service suspension period while a virtual device is dynamically migrated from a first computer to a second computer is shortened. When the virtual d... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030305 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING EMBEDDED OBJECTS IN A WEBPAGE TO A USER AGENT USING A NETWORK DEVICE A method and system for delivering embedded objects in a webpage to a user agent using a network device is described. In one embodiment, a method for delivering embedded objects in a webpage to a user agent using a network device is described. The method for delivering ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030300 | Sharing Memory Resources of Wireless Portable Electronic Devices It is not uncommon for two or more wireless-enabled devices to spend most of their time in close proximity to one another. For example, a person may routinely carry a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a portable digital audio/video player, or a cellphone and a PDA, o... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023187 | Multi-Tenant Universal Storage Manager In one aspect, a universal storage manager in a multi-tenant computing system receives at least one message requesting a change to a storage infrastructure of the multi-tenant computing system. Thereafter, the universal storage manager associates the requested change wi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016950 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING BANDWIDTH FOR CLIENTS IN A STORAGE AREA NETWORK A method for managing bandwidth allocation in a storage area network includes receiving a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) requests from a plurality of client devices, determining a priority of each of the client devices relative to other client devices, and dynamically ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005301 | Sharing an image Method, server, network and computer program product for sharing an image between a first terminal and a second terminal. An original version of the image is received at the server from the first terminal. Tiles are then received at the server from the first terminal, e... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320558 | Network with Distributed Shared Memory A computer network with distributed shared memory, including a clustered memory cache aggregated from and comprised of physical memory locations on a plurality of physically distinct computing systems. The network also includes a plurality of local cache managers, each ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320557 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information-processing apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits a first command to register in a memory a service provided by an application using a first communicative method. The communication unit transmits a second command to register in the memory ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320556 | Techniques For Migrating A Virtual Machine Using Shared Storage Techniques for providing the ability to live migrate a virtual machine from one physical host to another physical host employ shared storage as the transfer medium for the state of the virtual machine. In addition, the ability for a virtualization module to use second-l... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314119 | MASSIVELY SCALABLE MULTILAYERED LOAD BALANCING BASED ON INTEGRATED CONTROL AND DATA PLANE Method and system for load balancing in providing a service. A request for a service, represented by a single IP address, is first received by a router in the network. The router accesses information received from one or more advertising routers in the network. Each of ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MULTISTREAM STORAGE OPERATIONS Systems and methods for performing storage operations over multi-stream data paths are provided. Prior to performing a storage operation, it may be determined whether multi-streaming resources are available to perform a multi-stream storage operation. Availability of mu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110295968 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM A technique for increasing the speed of data entry into a distributed processing platform is provided. According to a computer system of the present invention, when data is entered into each node in a distributed manner, the most efficient entry method (a method with th... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295967 | Accelerator System For Remote Data Storage Data processing and an accelerator system therefor are described. An embodiment relates generally to a data processing system. In such an embodiment, a bus and an accelerator are coupled to one another. The accelerator has an application function block. The application ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289146 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ALLOWING SCAN OF DATA STORAGE DEVICE FROM REMOTE SERVER A method and device allowing a scan of a data storage device from a remote server are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computing device may include an out-of-band (OOB) configured to compute a first hash value for data stored in one or more sectors of a data storage de... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289178 | Host Device and Method For Accessing a Virtual File in a Storage Device by Bypassing a Cache in the Host Device A host device is provided comprising an interface configured to communicate with a storage device having a public memory area and a private memory area, wherein the public memory area stores a virtual file that is associated with content stored in the private memory are... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289180 | DATA CACHING IN A NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE Described embodiments provide for storing data in a local cache of one of a plurality of processing modules of a network processor. A control processing module determines presence of data stored in its local cache while concurrently sending a request to read the data fr... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289181 | Method and System for Detecting Changes in a Network Using Simple Network Management Protocol Polling In an embodiment, methods and systems have been provided for detecting changes in a network using improved Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) polling that reduces network traffic. Examples of changes in the network include, but are not limited to, configuration a... | 11/24/2011 |
