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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120072672 | PREFETCH ADDRESS HIT PREDICTION TO REDUCE MEMORY ACCESS LATENCY A prefetch unit receives a memory read request having an associated address for accessing data that is stored in memory. A next predicted address is determined in response to a prefetch address stored in a slot of an array for storing portions of predicted addresses and... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110252198 | STORAGE NETWORK SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL METHOD A storage network system that prevents waste of a core's resources and is thereby operated efficiently, and a method for controlling such a storage network system are provided. Policy differences between a core and a plurality of edges are ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110219186 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSION OF DATA FOR BLOCK MODE ACCESS STORAGE Systems and methods for creating, reading, and writing compressed data for use with a block mode access storage. The compressed data are packed into plurality of compressed units and stored in a storage logical unit (LU). One or more corresponding compressed units may b... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213930 | Multi-level cell memory device and method thereof A Multi-Level Cell (MLC) memory device and method thereof are provided. The example MLC memory device may be configured to perform data operations, and may include an MLC memory cell, a first coding device performing a first coding function, the first coding function be... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110197027 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QoS-BASED STORAGE TIERING AND MIGRATION TECHNIQUE The present invention is directed to a method for providing Quality Of Service (QoS)-based storage tiering and migration in a storage system. The method allows for configurable application data latency thresholds to be set on a per user basis and/or a per application ba... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110197017 | High Endurance Non-Volatile Memory Devices High endurance non-volatile memory devices (NVMD) are described. A high endurance NVMD includes an I/O interface, a NVM controller, a CPU along with a volatile memory subsystem and at least one non-volatile memory (NVM) module. The volatile memory cache subsystem is con... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110185120 | METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL VOLUME HOT-SPOTS IN STORAGE POOLS USING ONGOING LOAD MEASUREMENTS AND RANKING The present invention is directed to a method for providing data element placement in a storage system via a Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) mechanism, such that improved system efficiency is promoted. For example, the DST mechanism may implement an algorithm for providin... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173389 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATING AND/OR PROCESSING DATA At the inputs and/or outputs, memories are assigned to a reconfigurable module to achieve decoupling of internal data processing and in particular decoupling of the reconfiguration cycles from the external data streams (to/from peripherals, memories, etc.).... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110167221 | System and method for efficiently creating off-site data volume back-ups Data back-ups are a critical task of any information technology department. Data back-ups are typically performed using some type of back-up tape systems. Internet based data storage systems now offer data storage services at low prices. To take advantage of such servic... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110138122 | GATHER AND SCATTER OPERATIONS IN MULTI-LEVEL MEMORY HIERARCHY Methods and apparatus relating to gather or scatter operations in a multi-level cache are described. In some embodiments, a logic may determine whether to perform gather or scatter operations at a first memory or a second memory, based in part on a relative performance ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110099331 | STORAGE SYSTEM In a computer system including a plurality of data storage apparatuses and a management computer, a given data storage apparatus, upon receipt of a control request for a local data storage apparatus from a management computer, accesses the hierarchical relation informat... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110087894 | METHOD OF MANAGING MULTIMEDIA DATA AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH FUNCTION OF MANAGING MULTIMEDIA DATA A mobile communication terminal having a function of managing multimedia data is provided, including: a main memory including a multimedia database storing the multimedia data; a signal processor converting the multimedia data stored in the main memory into data of a fo... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110055480 | METHOD FOR PRELOADING CONFIGURATIONS OF A RECONFIGURABLE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING INTO A MEMORY HIERARCHY A method for preloading into a hierarchy of memories, bitstreams representing the configuration information for a reconfigurable processing system including several processing units. The method includes an off-execution step of determining tasks that can be executed on ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110040937 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS Embodiments for managing data in a hierarchical storage server storing data blocks of a database system comprising primary storage devices being in an active mode and secondary storage devices being in one of an active and passive mode are provided. In response to read ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110004765 | LICENSE MANAGING METHOD AND DEVICE A license managing device sets a security area for storing a license file, maintains the security area as an encoded file in an inactive state of the security area by encoding the security area, maintains the security area as a directory in an active state of the securi... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100318718 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR A HIERARCHICAL MEMORY ARCHITECTURE A hierarchical memory device having multiple interfaces with different memory formats includes a Phase Change Memory (PCM). An input port and an output port connect the hierarchical memory device in a daisy-chain hierarchy or a hierarchical tree structure with other mem... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100287124 | HIERARCHICAL TEMPORAL MEMORY UTILIZING NANOTECHNOLOGY Methods and systems are presented for constructing biological-scale hierarchically structured cortical statistical memory systems using currently available fabrication technology and meta-stable switching devices. Learning content-addressable memory and statistical rand... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100241676 | SELECTIVE DURABILITY IN A DIRECTORY DATABASE Selective durability in a directory database is presented. A directory database that provides durability processing includes a mechanism where selective attributes for directory resources can turn durability processing off. So, when a directory transaction is encountere... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100228701 | UPDATING BLOOM FILTERS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for updating Bloom filters. Embodiments of the invention facilitate more efficient use Bloom filters across multiple computers connected across a WAN (potentially having limited bandwidth a... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100205482 | MIRRORING CONTROLLER, STORAGE DEVICE, AND MIRRORING CONTROL METHOD A mirroring controller includes a copy controller that selects one memory from among the plurality of memories as a copy source memory and copies data from the copy source memory to at least one copy target memory; and an I/O mirroring controller that copies, when a rea... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205374 | EMBEDDED SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DYNAMIC MEMORY AND METHODS OF DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT A dynamic memory management method suitable for a memory allocation request of various applications can include predicting whether an object for which memory allocation is requested is a short-lived first type object or a long-lived second type object by using index inf... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100153634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA MIGRATION BETWEEN COMPUTER CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE AND DATA STORAGE DEVICES An improved duty cycle, increased effective bandwidth, and minimized power consumption are attained in a system for data migration between a compute cluster and disk drives by inclusion of a buffer node coupled to the compute cluster to store data received therefrom in ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153629 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE A command analyzer 160 determines whether or not a first write command after power-on is issued. A new block reserve determinator 170 determines that a new physical block is reserved, in a case where the command analyzer 160 determines that first wr... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100115191 | System Including Hierarchical Memory Modules Having Different Types Of Integrated Circuit Memory Devices A memory system is disclosed comprising a memory controller and a first set of volatile memory devices defining a first memory hierarchy. The first set of volatile memory devices are disposed on at least one first memory module, which is coupled to the memory controller... | 05/06/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20090300397 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION INVOLVING DATA STORAGE DEVICES The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for reducing power consumption involving data storage devices. One embodiment involves storing data in a first memory; in response to the first memory exceeding a first threshold, migrating the data from the first me... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090300079 | Integrated remote replication in hierarchical storage systems Remote replication is implemented with hierarchical storage. In exemplary embodiments, a first storage site has a first storage system providing an upper tier of storage and a second storage system providing a lower tier of storage. A remote second storage site has thir... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292748 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A STORAGE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE VOLUME FORMATS SIMULTANEOUSLY A plurality of types of volumes are maintained, a volume being a logical arrangement of storage space on one or more data storage devices. A volume type field is used to designate the type of a particular volume, and a flexible volume paradigm is selected by the volume ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090254705 | BUS ATTACHED COMPRESSED RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY A computer memory system having a three-level memory hierarchy structure is disclosed. The system includes a memory controller, a volatile memory, and a non-volatile memory. The volatile memory is divided into an uncompressed data region and a compressed data region.... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090240886 | PLUGIN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HIERARCHICAL TEMPORAL MEMORY (HTM) SYSTEM A system for implementing a hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) network using a plugin infrastructure. The plugin infrastructure registers the plugins to be used in instantiating the HTM network. The plugin may include one or more functions for creating one or more compo... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090228655 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE APPARATUS, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD A storage apparatus includes a first storage device that primarily stores data, a second storage device, having a property differing from the first storage device, that secondarily stores the data, and a control device that controls a data migration between the first st... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090198890 | METHOD OF SEARCHING NEIGHBORING CELL ADDRESS IN SAME RESOLUTION OCTREE STRUCTURE Disclosed is a method of searing an address in the octree structure having the same resolution. The method of searching address values of the neighboring cells in the octree structure having the same resolution can include performing address encoding of octree cells by ... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090187711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUXILIARY STORAGE OPERATIONS Systems and methods for protecting data in a tiered storage system are provided. The storage system comprises a management server, a media management component connected to the management server, a plurality of storage media connected to the media management component, ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090172282 | DIGITAL CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR TESTING A DIGITAL CIRCUIT Digital circuits and methods for testing a digital circuit are disclosed. One embodiment provides a digital circuit having a first plurality of storage elements, and a second plurality of storage elements. The digital circuit is operable in a first operation mode and in... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090150613 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT A memory manager that compacts a memory heap and reclaims space allocated to dead entities is disclosed. The memory manager may include threads of a first phase, threads of a second phase, and threads of a third phase. The threads of the first phase may assign a target ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090077317 | HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING STORAGE OPERATIONS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK A system for performing storage operations using hierarchically configured storage operation cells. The system includes a first storage manager component and a first storage operation cell. The first storage operation cell has a second storage manager component directed... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090063702 | CROSSBAR APPARATUS FOR A FORWARDING TABLE MEMORY IN A ROUTER A router including a lookup execution unit including a plurality of stages, a forwarding table memory arranged in hierarchy including addressable sectors, blocks, and entries, and a crossbar having an address crossbar for selectively coupling one of the plurality of sta... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20080282032 | ADAPTIVE MECHANISMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLYING VOLATILE DATA COPIES IN MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS In a computer system with a memory hierarchy, when a high-level cache supplies a data copy to a low-level cache, the shared copy can be either volatile or non-volatile. When the data copy is later replaced from the low-level cache, if the data copy is non-volatile, it n... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080282033 | PROCESSING FUNCTION CONNECTED TO PROCESSOR MEMORY HIERARCHY Apparatus and method for employing a Hardware Processing Function in a processor system using a hierarchical memory. Embodiments of the disclosed invention may be used to enhance processor performance and functionality while maintaining cache coherency and reducing cach... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080263277 | Storage device A storage device is provided with a file I/O interface control device and a plurality of disk pools. The file I/O interface control device sets one of a plurality of storage hierarchies defining storage classes, respectively, for each of LUs within the disk pools, there... | 10/23/2008 |
