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| 20080140881 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORAGE COMMAND AND DATA ROUTER An interconnecting unit and method for data communication between a plurality of computer hosts and a plurality of storage devices. The interconnecting unit couples the hosts to the storage devices and enables the data communication. The interconnection includes a plura... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080133794 | System and method for redirecting input/output (I/O) sequences A method for redirecting I/O (Input/Output) sequences. A computer platform is initialized. If the computer platform is enabled for command packet rerouting, the platform firmware may be used to install a runtime enable block I/O interface and a standard UNDI (Universal ... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080126614 | Input/output (I/O) device virtualization using hardware According to embodiments of the present invention a computer system that is capable of sharing physical devices among several virtual machines (VM) includes hardware assisted logic to allow requests from guest operating systems (guest OS) to circumvent a virtual machine... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080126615 | Storage area network system A storage network includes a path processor for directing data onto one of two or more paths between an application host and two or more storage controllers in a storage subsystem. To determine a data path within the storage network, the operational status of a storage ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080071945 | Audio data transmission system and audio data transmission method An audio data transmission system applied in a blade PC for connecting a main system unit of a PC blade with an external audio device is provided. The audio data transmission system comprises a peripheral agent device, a peripheral gateway and a connection management un... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080065795 | Method for enabling two sets of I/O peripherals to operate the same host in centralized computer system The invention is to provide a centralized computer system, i.e., the so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts. In particularly, the centralized computer system according to... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080005396 | Storage system and configuration-change method thereof A storage system includes a plurality of disk drives, one or more controller boards for controlling data read and write from/to the plurality of the disk drives, and a Fibre Channel switching board for controlling path switching between the controller boards and the plu... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20080005397 | Path maintenance mechanism In the computer system including a host computer and a storage system, the storage system includes a physical disk and a disk controller, and provides a storage area of the physical disk as at least one logical unit. The processor obtains, at a first time point and a se... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070220150 | Source Switching Method for Multimedia Interface A convenient, low-cost method is provided herein for switching between one or more source devices, which are connected to a sink device via a multimedia interface. According to one embodiment, the method described herein may be used for switching between a plurality of ... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070162656 | Method for efficient communication between a host library controller and a medium changer library A host library controller employs a plurality of ports for establishing a plurality of communication paths from the host library controller to a medium changer library. The host library controller further employs a processor and a memory storing instructions for the pro... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070109263 | Matrix architecture for KVM extenders A matrix architecture for KVM extenders connecting a plurality of console terminals and a plurality of computers. The matrix architecture for KVM extenders includes a plurality of first extenders and a plurality of second extenders. The first extenders transform keyboar... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070088870 | Methods and apparatus for managing multipathing software An embodiment of a method of managing multipathing in a computer system including the steps of establishing a plurality of concurrent multipathing processes on the computer system; disassociating a plurality of operational data paths from a first of the multipathing pro... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070082657 | Method and system for notifying service information to wireless terminal A method and system for notifying service information to a wireless terminal are provided. More exact service information is provided to the wireless terminal when employing synchronization markup language (SyncML) device management (DM). The wireless terminal communica... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070028014 | Method and apparatus for managing I/O paths on a storage network A processing apparatus which stores a first information piece about attributes identifying a specific process generating data input/output requests in such a manner that the first information piece is associated with a second information piece identifying at least one o... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070022227 | Path control device, system, cluster, cluster system, method and computer readable medium embodying program A path control device that controls first and second paths for accessing a peripheral subsystem, includes a command substituting unit that substitutes a first reserve command that allows an access through the first path, with a second reserve command that allows both of... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20060282563 | Content presentation device, management server, content presentation system, and content presentation method There are provided a memory 4d for accumulating content data and storing a presentation device identifier unique to each presentation device; a display 4a for outputting the content data; a communication interface 4c for receivi... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060230194 | Memory control apparatus and method for digital signal processing A memory control apparatus and method for operating a plurality of digital signal processors (DSPs) using a single memory slot and buffer are provided. Exemplary embodiments provide at least one DSP for processing different signals, a flash memory that can record and re... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060200596 | SyncML data sync system and data exchanging method for data exchange between clients Disclosed is a SyncML data sync system and a data exchanging method thereof for data exchange between clients. A sync server receives data to be provided to another client and authentication of a target client to which the data is provided from a first client, and trans... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060168369 | Method for controlling storage system, and storage control apparatus A method for controlling a storage system including a host computer, and a first and a second storage control apparatuses each receiving a data input/output request from the host computer and executing a data input/output process for a storage device in response to the ... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060143332 | Storage system and method of storage system path control The present invention uses memory resources effectively and connects each storage device by a plurality of paths in a switchable manner, thus improving reliability and ease of use, by virtualizing external memory resources as internal memory resources. External storage ... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060085575 | Storage network system, host computer and physical path allocation method The object of the invention is to prevent differential data transfer for a volume pair from being stopped by the influence of another volume pair and make the loads on physical paths equal to each other by finding an optimum allocation of the physical paths to logical p... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20060036782 | Method, system, and program for managing path groups to an input/output (I/O) device Provided are a method, system, and program for managing path groups to an Input/Output (I/O) device. Indication is made of a connection path on which a processing system initially communicated an establish request to establish a connection with an I/O device, wherein at... | 02/16/2006 |
| 20060031606 | Disk-array device A disk-array device includes an information managing database for acquiring link information among a server device, a switch device, and a storage device via the switch device so as to manage the link information in a combined manner, and a collection/analysis unit for ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050235074 | Method for data accessing in a computer system including a storage system The object of the invention is to improve data access performance in a computer system. At least one logical volume is provided in a storage device 13 connected to a host computer via a network 17, and two different paths, a first path and a second path, w... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050204078 | Integrated-circuit implementation of a storage-shelf router and a path controller card for combined use in high-availability mass-storage-device shelves that may be incorporated within disk arrays One embodiment of the present invention is an integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router, used in combination with path controller cards and optionally with other storage-shelf routers, to interconnect SATA disks within a storage shelf or disk array to a hig... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050188127 | User interface for representing logical path information and displaying available adapters in a storage subsystem A user interface facilitates copying data between storage resources, such as servers. A user selects a source storage resource and a target storage resource. Available adapters are displayed through which a path can be established between the selected source and target ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050180388 | Method and system for high speed USB data routing Aspects for high speed USB data routing are presented. The aspects include routing a data stream to and from USB I/O ports serially, and maintaining a frequency of the data stream during the routing. Additionally, a root port router is provided for the root port and a d... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050149650 | Data storage systems for assigning control of serial ATA storage devices The present invention discloses technology that extends single-ported storage devices by providing multiple access paths and power control in data storage subsystems. In an embodiment, the system provides circuitry associated with single ported storage devices to connec... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050117575 | Nonblocking and deterministic unicast packet scheduling A system for scheduling unicast packets through an interconnection network having a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, and a plurality of input queues, comprising unicast packets, at each input port is operated in nonblocking manner in accordance wit... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050114566 | Bandwidth utilization in a PPRC system Methods, system and computer program product are provided to improve the efficiency of data transfers in a PPRC environment. A block of data to be transferred is divided into tracks. Each track is allocated to a data mover task control block (TCB) with a master TCB bein... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050097243 | Storage path control method In volume allocation, the user specifies a volume allocation requirement including parameters regarding availability of paths to select and to set volumes and paths to satisfy the requirement. In the operation, a check is made for not only paths actually set but also pa... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050030574 | Print job re-routing scheme A print job handling system, the system at least includes: a network adapted to interconnect at least one computer and peripheral devices; a plurality of network printers coupled to the network, and adapted to execute print jobs; and at least one printer control panel c... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050021887 | Signal routing circuit board for storage system A signal routing circuit board has electronics common to circuit boards coupled to the signal routing circuit board. The signal routing circuit board may be coupled to a storage array circuit board and at least one input/output (I/O) controller circuit board. The storag... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050005038 | Information processing apparatus and communication path selection method An information processing apparatus having a common storage accessible by a host includes: an NIC group connected with a plurality of communication paths connected to the host; an I/O processing unit for executing I/O processing of the common storage in response to an I... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050005037 | Buffer switch having descriptor cache and method thereof A device for writing descriptors, the device including a local memory comprising a multiplicity of mini-queues, wherein each of the mini-queues temporarily stores a plurality of descriptors, wherein each of the descriptors is associated with one of the data packets. Add... | 01/06/2005 |
