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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110286 | Image processing apparatus, power-saving recovery control method, and computer program product An image processing apparatus including: a first storage unit; a second storage unit that has a higher storage capacity than that of the first storage unit and a longer start-up time than that of the first storage unit; and a control unit that, after shifting to a power... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072684 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD A storage apparatus includes a storage medium configured to store data and a control unit configured to control access to the storage medium. The control unit includes first storage configured to store data to be stored in the storage medium, a second storage configured... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120036319 | COMMONALITY FACTORING FOR REMOVABLE MEDIA Systems and methods for commonality factoring for storing data on removable storage media are described. The systems and methods allow for highly compressed data, e.g., data compressed using archiving or backup methods including de-duplication, to be stored in an effici... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120011308 | CONTROL DEVICE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING STORAGE DEVICES OF A PLURALITY OF TYPES A control device of a storage system that includes a plurality of storage devices including a first type of storage device, including: a memory which stores an archive deadline of archive target data which are a target of archiving by the storage system and a warranty d... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005422 | Non-Volatile Memory Cache Performance Improvement In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads t... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320752 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium in which information to be processed by an application program recorded on a recording medium can be taken over and used by an appli... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314237 | VIRTUAL ORDERED WRITES TRANSFER LOG A primary storage device maintaining recovery data in connection with ordering data writes includes the primary storage device receiving a plurality of data writes, the primary storage device associating data writes begun after a first time and before a second time with... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110296126 | STORAGE SYSTEM A storage system includes a plurality of storing means and a data processing means configured to store data into the plurality of storing means. The data processing means includes: a storage destination setting means configured to set a journal storing means configured ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296125 | LOW LATENCY HANDOFF TO OR FROM A LONG TERM EVOLUTION NETWORK A server device in a long term evolution (LTE) network may store, in a memory, context information, associated with a prior communication session between the LTE network and a user device, where the context information permits a communication session to be established w... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110252207 | DYNAMIC CONTENT ARCHIVING Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with dynamic content archiving are disclosed. A system archive trigger parameter that is related to a present operational status of one or more system components is monitored. The system archive trigger parameter is eva... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110238935 | Systems and/or methods for distributed data archiving Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to system and/or methods that pair a data extractor with a data accumulator, wherein these components may be located on any one or more computers in a network system. This distributed peer extract-accumulate approach ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110219200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ARCHIVE EMAIL MESSAGES IN A SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE SYSTEM A system includes a client machine or first server, and a second server. The first server is coupled via a network connection to the second server. The second server is configured to provide an electronic mail service. The first server includes a processor configured to... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110191560 | EFFICIENT DATA STORAGE USING TWO LEVEL DELTA RESEMBLANCE Storage using resemblance of data segments is disclosed. It is determined that a new segment resembles a second prior stored segment wherein the second prior stored segment is represented as a first stored delta and a first prior stored segment. A second delta between t... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110184916 | INCREMENTAL AND PRIORITIZED RESTORATION OF BLOCKS A first computational platform generates a data structure that indicates a set of blocks, wherein the indicated set of blocks have to be rewritten to revert a logical storage structure stored in the first computational platform to a previous state. An Input/Output (I/O)... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110145525 | Method and System for Storing and Operating on Advanced Historical Access Data Storing and operating an information object. An indicator associated with the information object is read. The indicator indicates that a historical information is stored for the information object. Responsive to determining from the historical information that the infor... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138137 | RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ARCHIVING DATA, RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS A recording medium for archiving data, a recording method, a recording apparatus, a reproducing method, and a reproducing apparatus are disclosed. The recording medium includes a data area for recording user data and a management area for managing information recorded o... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110125560 | AUGMENTING A SYNCHRONIZED MEDIA ARCHIVE WITH ADDITIONAL MEDIA RESOURCES Systems and methods allow collaboration based on media archive based systems. Collaboration events are processed within media archive based systems. End user collaborations are improved and the overall content of the original media archive is enhanced. The collaborative... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110125976 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SURVEILLANCE AND EVENT RECORDING A data-encoding system includes a source of unencoded data, and a first encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the first encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a first data rate. The data enc... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110118858 | LOCAL STORAGE OF A PORTION OF STREAMED MEDIA ITEMS This invention is directed to playing back streamed media items using an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to locally storing one or more clips corresponding to a media item such that the clips can be immediately played back in response to a user reques... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110107042 | FORMATTING DATA STORAGE ACCORDING TO DATA CLASSIFICATION A set of data can be classified into a data level of multiple possible data levels. Additionally, an indicator of the data level for the set of data can be transmitted to a storage device. In response to receiving the indicator, a storage area in the device can be forma... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110082987 | Systems and Methods for Power State Transitioning in an Information Handling System Systems and methods for power state transitioning in an information handling system having a volatile memory and a nonvolatile memory are disclosed. Dirty data in the volatile memory may be identified. The dirty data may include data that has not been stored in the nonv... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082988 | DATA MIGRATION CONTROL METHOD FOR STORAGE DEVICE In recent years reducing the operating cost of storage devices (hereafter, also referred to as storage sub-systems) has been an important task for the management of storage systems. As one method for solving this task, data life cycle management, in which data is reloca... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110078394 | COMMUNICATION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORIGINATION AND/OR EXAMINATION OF ASSETS Systems and methods are provided for communicating information regarding assets. A server may receive a login request and verify the identity of a user. The user may select at least one asset category from a list. The server may provide a list of communication sets for ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072227 | PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF A CAPACITY OPTIMIZED STORAGE SYSTEM USING A PERFORMANCE SEGMENT STORAGE SYSTEM AND A SEGMENT STORAGE SYSTEM A system for storing data comprises a performance storage unit for storing a data stream or a data block in. The data stream or the data block comprises one or more data items. The system further comprises a segment storage system for automatically storing a stored data... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110055502 | DATA LOGGER, DATA SAVING METHOD AND PROGRAM It is an object to provide a data logger which solves a problem in which data required to analyze a cause of occurrence of abnormality cannot be acquired. Temporary memory 102 stores newer data among data sequentially outputted from measurer 101 wherein th... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110035550 | 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... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARCHIVING OF DATA The invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program for archiving of data. An announcement signal, which identifies the data, which have to be archived, is sent from a source system to a destination system. A feedback signal, which identifies the announce... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022810 | DATA STORING METHOD AND DATA STORING SYSTEM A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an data storing program executed by an archive device including a first storage unit for storing data and a second storage unit for storing hash value determined from the data, the program causing the archive device to e... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022986 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR APPLICATION ARCHIVING A method, server and system for executing an application on an electronic device is provided. In one example embodiment, the method comprises: receiving an input command from an input mechanism associated with the electronic device; determining whether the input command... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016280 | COPY PROTECTION OF SOFTWARE AND/OR DATA Autorun functionality is incorporated into an integrated circuit memory device such as any USB peripheral, which has a memory component interfaced to a USB microcontroller. This provides autorun of one or more executables or application installers from a memory componen... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100318692 | MULTIPATH-BASED MIGRATION OF DATA ACROSS STORAGE CONTROLLERS Exemplary methods, systems, and computer program product embodiments for migrating existing data from a source storage controller to a target storage controller, each associated with a data processing storage subsystem, using a processor device in communication with a m... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318612 | Apparatus and Method for Email Storage Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for storing emails, comprising a neural network arranged to receive information associated with an email, to determine a storage location of the email according to one or more of the attributes of the email and t... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318746 | MEMORY CHANGE TRACK LOGGING A method for tracking memory changes includes defining a change-track area of memory including at least one memory address range for which changes will be tracked. The method also includes allocating a protected log region of memory for storing a change-track log and se... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313065 | OBJECT ORIENTED MEMORY IN SOLID STATE DEVICES The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for object oriented memory in solid state devices. One embodiment of a method for object oriented memory in solid state devices includes accessing a defined set of data as a single object in an atomic operati... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306484 | HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE ARRAY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH EVICTION A storage system can comprise storage devices having storage media with differing characteristics. An eviction handler can receive information regarding the state of storage media or of data stored thereon, as well as information regarding application or operating syste... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100280999 | ENSURING DATA PERSISTENCE AND CONSISTENCY IN ENTERPRISE STORAGE BACKUP SYSTEMS Ensuring data persistence and consistency in enterprise storage backup systems method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating a data log structure (e.g., a log file) on a storage device (e.g., a Serial ATA drive, a SCSI drive, a SAS dr... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281207 | FLASH-BASED DATA ARCHIVE STORAGE SYSTEM A flash-based data archive storage system having a large capacity storage array constructed from a plurality of dense flash devices is provided. The flash devices are illustratively multi-level cell (MLC) flash devices that are tightly packaged to provide a low-power, h... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100257140 | DATA ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM A method and system to store and retrieve archival data and indefinitely storing the data is disclosed. By using caches and large volumes of commodity disk drives controlled in a dynamic or scheduled way, power consumption of the archive system is reduced. Archive data ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100235593 | FLOW RESILIENCY In an example embodiment, packets for a selected flow are replicated and sent over one or more diverse paths, such as a primary path and at least one secondary path, to a destination switching device. At the destination switching device, one copy of the replicated packe... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235592 | DATE VOLUME MIGRATION WITH MIGRATION LOG CONFIRMATION Exemplary embodiments provide data volume migration with migration log confirmation in which the same data volume identifier is used beyond migration for a data volume. In one embodiment, data is migrated to or from a data volume in a data storage area of a storage appa... | 09/16/2010 |
