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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120226875 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS A storage unit is provided with a plurality of sub storage units configured to include a plurality of hard disk drives, an enclosure, a printed wiring board, a power supply device, and a cable holder. The sub storage units each operate separately. The enclosure is provi... | 09/06/2012 |
| 20120226371 | MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS, MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND AUDIO PLAYING METHOD A memory storage apparatus and a memory controller and an audio playing method thereof are provided. The memory storage apparatus includes a connector, a rewritable non-volatile memory module, the memory controller, and an audio playing unit. The audio playing unit is c... | 09/06/2012 |
| 20120226860 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD A path is formed between a host computer and storage apparatuses without depending on the configuration of the host computer and a network and a plurality of volumes having a copy function are migrated between storage apparatuses while keeping the latest data. | 09/06/2012 |
| 20120226874 | CHARACTERIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF TRACKS ON DISKS Embodiment of the invention related to characterization and optimization of tracks on a disk, magnetic or optical by determining an input/output (I/O) characteristics for a plurality of blocks on a disk by a processor, wherein the characteristics comprise at least one o... | 09/06/2012 |
| 20120221772 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICES, SYSTEMS INCLUDING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY READ THRESHOLD VOLTAGE DETERMINATION A semiconductor memory system can include a memory device having a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cells. A memory controller can be configured to perform domain transformation on data written to and/or read from the plurality of memory cells to pr... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221789 | Specifying Physical Attributes of a Cloud Storage Device Mechanisms are provided for creating a cloud storage device. A user interface is presented for selecting a type of physical storage devices, from a plurality of possible physical storage devices, to include in the cloud storage device and a quantity of a selected type o... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221812 | METHOD FOR PRESERVING MEMORY AFFINITY IN A NON-UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM A method for preserving memory affinity in a computer system is disclosed. The method reduces and sometimes eliminates memory affinity loss due to process migration by restoring the proper memory affinity through dynamic page migration. The memory affinity access patter... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221807 | DATA CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS A data control system comprises a communication interface, a processing system, and a storage system. The communication interface is configured to receive a request to retrieve data from a primary storage volume that includes a secondary storage volume. The storage syst... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221805 | Method for managing physical memory of a data storage and data storage management system A method is provided managing physical memory of a data storage, for example, a heap. The method includes requesting a memory portion having a memory portion size and identifying a pool. The pool is provided for storing at least one access information indicative of an a... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221806 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME An information processing apparatus processes data to be processed while accessing data to be processed that is stored in a memory or a HDD. The information processing apparatus determines the process content and calculates the access number to the HDD based on the dete... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221809 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF THE SAME Comprises a memory control unit which transmits and receives data to and from respective interface control units in accordance with access requests and also controls access to the memory and a buffer which temporarily stores data smaller than 64 B, wherein the memory co... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221808 | SHARED SINGLE-ACCESS MEMORY WITH MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE PARALLEL REQUESTS A memory is used by concurrent threads in a multithreaded processor. Any addressable storage location is accessible by any of the concurrent threads, but only one location at a time is accessible. The memory is coupled to parallel processing engines that generate a grou... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221803 | HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA STORAGE USING OBSERVABLE CLIENT-SIDE MEMORY ACCESS In one example, a system is provided that performs memory access operations on a storage volume stored in memory and identifies the memory access operations performed. A request to perform a memory access operation may be received at a communication interface. The reque... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING STORAGE OPERATIONS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK Methods and systems are described for performing storage operations on electronic data in a network. In response to the initiation of a storage operation and according to a first set of selection logic, a media management component is selected to manage the storage oper... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221804 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED PROGRAMMING MANAGEMENT AND RELATED METHOD A non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, with each memory cell for storing a bit having a first logic value or a second logic value. An input is for receiving a word defined by bits to be stored in the plurality of memory cells. Programming cir... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221802 | Multiplex Restore Using Next Relative Addressing According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for multiplex restore using next relative address may be provided. The method may include identifying an address of a first data chunk of a file stored on a storage device. The first data chunk may be read ... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120221801 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND OPERATING MODE CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS It is an object to improve a reliability of a data protection for a storage control apparatus that is provided with a redundant configuration that is made of a plurality of clusters. A memory unit in each of the clusters C1 and C2 is provided with a first ... | 08/30/2012 |
| 20120216003 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MEMORY PROTECTION METHOD According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a processor, and a memory device. The memory device has a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and is configured to serve as a main memory for the processor. When the processor executes a plurality of prog... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120215995 | PREEMPTIVE IN-PIPELINE STORE COMPARE RESOLUTION A computer-implemented method that includes receiving a plurality of stores in a store queue, via a processor, comparing a fetch request against the store queue to search for a target store having a same memory address as the fetch request, determining whether the targe... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120215996 | WRITE DATA MASK METHOD AND SYSTEM In various embodiments, dedicated mask pins are eliminated by sending a data mask on address lines of the interface. A memory controller receives a request for a memory write operation from a memory client and determines the granularity of the write data from a write da... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120215993 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A first nonvolatile storage device has a higher access speed in a continuous access than a random access and a second nonvolatile storage device has a higher access speed in the random access than the continuous access. The information processing apparatus selects a fir... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120215992 | Sorting Systems and techniques are disclosed that include in one aspect a computer implemented method storing a received stream of data elements in a buffer, applying a boundary condition to the data elements stored in the buffer after receiving each individual data element of ... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120215994 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PRESERVING CONSISTENCY OF REMOTE COPY DATA A storage control system adapted to operate as a remote copy pair by communicating between a primary and a secondary of the remote copy pair comprises a selector for selecting writes to be placed in a batch based on one or more criteria, a sequence number requester for ... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120212498 | MEMORY CONTROLLER INCLUDING A HARDWARE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION ENGINE FOR MANAGING SYSTEM MEMORY AND GRAPHICAL OPERATIONS An integrated memory controller (IMC) may sit on the main CPU bus or a high speed system peripheral bus and couple to system memory. The IMC may use a lossless data compression and decompression scheme for improved performance. The IMC may also include microcode for spe... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120215963 | Semiconductor Memory Systems that Include Data Randomizers and Related Devices, Controllers and Methods A semiconductor memory system and a programming method performed by the same. The semiconductor memory system includes: a semiconductor memory device having a storage area; a memory controller for controlling programming and reading of the storage area of the semiconduc... | 08/23/2012 |
| 20120210075 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS A memory management method for managing physical units of a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided. In the method, the physical units are grouped into at least a data area and a free area. The method includes obtaining empty physical units from the free area ... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120206107 | PROTECTION MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STATUS DATA OF THE PROTECTION MODULE A protection module interposed between a chargeable/dischargeable secondary battery and a load, the protection module includes a first switching element connected to the chargeable/dischargeable secondary battery, a second switching element connected to the load, a prot... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210082 | DATA CODING USING DIVISIONS OF MEMORY CELL STATES Data storage devices and methods to encode and decode data using divisions of memory cell states are disclosed. A method includes dividing data bits into disjoint multiple groups of data bits and storing the data bits into a plurality of memory cells. The storing is don... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210193 | MEMORY AND METHOD FOR CHECKING READING ERRORS THEREOF A method for checking reading errors of a memory includes the following steps. A first data fragment is received. A first count index according to the first data fragment is generated, wherein the first count index is corresponding to a quantity of one kind of binary va... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210080 | Data Protection Technique that Protects Illicit Copying of Data Maintained in Data Storage A data protection program for protecting data to be processed by an application, and a computer including volatile storage means and nonvolatile storage means performs a volatile file unpack function of writing, to the nonvolatile storage means, data corresponding to a ... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210198 | System and Method for Fault Tolerant Computing Using Generic Hardware A dual redundant process controller is provided. The controller comprises a first processor, memory, and instance of a process control application stored in the first memory. The controller further comprises a second processor, memory, and instance of the process contro... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210081 | Optimizing Output Vector Data Generation Using A Formatted Matrix Data Structure A computer system retrieves a packet that includes non-zero elements that correspond to sparse-matrix rows. Within the packet, the non-zero elements are stored in predefined fields that each correspond to one of the sparse-matrix rows. The computer system computes outpu... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210050 | Selection of Data Storage Medium Based on Write Characteristic A hybrid hard disk drive includes a hard disk drive controller to receive a plurality of write commands from a host, a buffer to receive and store write data, which are input through the hard disk drive controller and correspond to each of the plurality of write command... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210048 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION A semiconductor memory device capable of compression and decompression is disclosed. With the semiconductor memory device having a built-in compression function, once external digital data need to be written to the semiconductor memory device, the semiconductor memory d... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210078 | ARBITER, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT According to an embodiment, an arbiter is for arbitrating accesses to a first memory and a second memory from a first device having a cache memory for temporarily storing data and a second device. The arbiter includes a first writing unit configured to write data reques... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210047 | RAM Daemons A method of managing a database system using a swarm database system that communicates a request to read data to at least a subset of nodes. Checking the identifier by each respective node in the subset of nodes to determine if the requested read data is stored in the n... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210055 | Controlling latency and power consumption in a memory Memory circuitry, a data processing apparatus and a method of storing data are disclosed. The memory circuitry comprises: a memory for storing the data; and control circuitry for controlling power consumption of the memory by controlling a rate of access to the memory s... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210065 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING MEMORY IN A MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE Techniques for managing memory in a multiprocessor architecture are presented. Each processor of the multiprocessor architecture includes its own local memory. When data is to be removed from a particular local memory or written to storage that data is transitioned to a... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210076 | USER DEVICE PERFORMING DATA RETENTION OPERATION, STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA RETENTION METHOD Disclosed is a method of operating a data storage device. The method includes; causing the data storage device to transition from an off-line state to an on-line state, receiving a current global time as communicated from a host during the on-line state, and during the ... | 08/16/2012 |
| 20120210077 | RECORDING SYSTEM, RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A recording system includes a controller configured to write content data on at least first and second storage media, in parallel with each other. If there is a period in which the content data has failed to be written on the first storage medium but has been written su... | 08/16/2012 |
