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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120042143 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND COPY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM An information recording apparatus includes: means that obtains medium identifying information of an inserted information recording medium; means that obtains information regarding an allowable number of copies from a server 1, the allowable number of copies bein... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042141 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Improvement of read/write access performance with respect to a disk is proposed. A controller manages a first volume format LDEV, in which each distributed user data area and each distributed information area among a plurality of the distributed user data areas for stor... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042142 | PROVIDING EXECUTING PROGRAMS WITH RELIABLE ACCESS TO NON-LOCAL BLOCK DATA STORAGE Techniques are described for managing access of executing programs to non-local block data storage. In some situations, a block data storage service uses multiple server storage systems to reliably store block data that may be accessed over one or more networks by progr... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042140 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL OPTICAL DISK FUNCTION IN PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE AND PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE WITH VIRTUAL OPTICAL DISK FUNCTION The present invention provides a method for providing a virtual optical disk function in a portable storage device and a portable storage device with a virtual optical disk function. The method for providing the virtual optical disk function in the portable storage devi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042139 | MAINTAINING ASYNCHRONOUS MIRRORING An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for maintaining asynchronous mirroring. A detection module detects insufficient storage space to store a snapshot of a logical volume in at least one of a primary storage system and a secondary storage system. The primary s... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042115 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LOOK-AHEAD VIRTUAL VOLUME META-DATA PROCESSING IN A STORAGE CONTROLLER Apparatus and methods for improved efficiency in accessing meta-data in a storage controller of a virtualized storage system. Features and aspects hereof walk/retrieve meta-data for one or more other I/O requests when retrieving meta-data for a first I/O request. The me... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036331 | METHOD FOR BACKUP STORAGE DEVICE SELECTION A method and system for backing up computer data uses a network device to select a storage device in a manner that enhances at least one parameter associated with the backup process.... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036332 | ACTIVE-ACTIVE REMOTE CONFIGURATION OF A STORAGE SYSTEM A method for data storage, including configuring a first logical volume on a first storage system and a second logical volume on a second storage system. The second logical volume is configured as a mirror of the first logical volume, so that the first and second logica... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036330 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD With a computer system having a host computer and first and second storage apparatuses, the second storage apparatus virtualizes first logical units in the first storage apparatus and provides them as second logical units to the host computer, collects configuration inf... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036333 | TRIANGULAR ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION Storing recovery data includes providing chunks of data to a remote destination, where each chunk of data represents data written before a first time and after a second time and where the second time for one of the particular chunks corresponds to a first time for a sub... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030440 | STORAGE SYSTEM GROUP INCLUDING SCALE-OUT STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR A management system is coupled to a storage system group including a scale-out storage system (a virtual storage system). The management system has storage management information, which includes information denoting, for each storage system, whether or not a storage sys... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030441 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE DETECTING ERROR According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first to fifth units. The first unit compares first data being write target data before write in a memory, with second data written in the memory and then read out. The second unit stores the first data... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030411 | DATA PROTECTING METHOD, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND PORTABLE MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS A data protecting method for a portable memory storage apparatus is provided. The method includes determining whether a mode signal is at a data protecting mode, and performing a file hiding procedure to change a file allocation table if the mode signal is at the data p... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030417 | RAID CONTROLLER HAVING MULTI PCI BUS SWITCHING Embodiments of the present invention provide a RAID controller with multi PCI bus switching for a storage device of a PCI-Express (PCI-e) type that supports a low-speed data processing speed for a host. Specifically, embodiments of this invention provide a RAID controll... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030439 | Data Sharing for File Clones Using Reverse Ditto References A method, system, and computer program product for creating and implementing file clones using reverse ditto references. A clone inode is created as a copy of an original inode. The clone inode and the original inode are indistinguishable to an end user. Each additional... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030422 | Resilient Mirroring Utilizing Peer-to-Peer Storage An apparatus and associated method including a first storage device and a second storage device, each coupled to a remote server independently of the other via a network. Resilient mirroring logic is stored in each of the storage devices that establishes a peer-to-peer ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030542 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE A data storage device includes an interface that is configured to interface with a host, a command bus, multiple memory devices that are operably coupled to the command bus and a controller that is operably coupled to the interface and to the command bus. The controller... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023300 | MEMORY PAGE MANAGEMENT IN A TIERED MEMORY SYSTEM Memory page management in a tiered memory system including a system that includes at least one page table for storing a plurality of entries, each entry associated with a page of memory and each entry including an address of the page and a memory tier of the page. The s... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023301 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL METHOD Provided is a system in which, when connecting an external storage apparatus to a primary storage apparatus, the setting of an external volume to be mapped to the primary storage apparatus can be set to the external storage apparatus by a volume creation request to the ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017060 | DEDUPLICATION OF DATA STORED IN A COPY VOLUME A source volume and a copy volume are stored, where the copy volume contains data that has been modified by writes to the source volume. In response to a write to a particular location and resource volume, a deduplication data structure is checked to determine whether t... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017027 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING SAVE AND RESTORE PERFORMANCE IN VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEMS Page data of a virtual machine is represented for efficient save and restore operations. One form of representation applies to each page with an easily identifiable pattern. The page is described, saved, and restored in terms of metadata reflective of the pattern rather... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017046 | UNIFIED MANAGEMENT OF STORAGE AND APPLICATION CONSISTENT SNAPSHOTS A storage management application of a storage array is operable to create a new volume on the storage device array, and to automatically configure, responsive to user selection of an application protection profile, data protection services for application data to be sto... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017059 | MAKING A PHYSICAL COPY OF DATA AT A REMOTE STORAGE DEVICE Systems and methods relating to making a physical copy at a remote storage device of data on a local storage device in response to a command from a backup application operatively associated with the local storage device are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises repli... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017057 | DATA COPYING DEVICE, METHOD FOR COPYING DATA AND DATA STORAGE DEVICE A data copying device that copies data stored in a first data storage device to a second data storage device is disclosed. The data copying device includes a data reading unit that reads data that has an amount determined based on a number of a plurality of logical volu... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017056 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD A computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes receiving from a user a request for performing a process for copying information; executing the process for copying information in accordance with the received requ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017058 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING STATUS THEREOF There is disclosed a data storage system used in a computer environment where there are plural host computers and plural storage array controllers. When a remote copy is made while assuring the order of writing across plural storage array controllers, one of the host co... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011338 | DATA INSERTION SYSTEM, DATA CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, DATA INSERTION METHOD, DATA CONTROL METHOD, DATA STORING METHOD The data insertion system has a storage system 1, a backup storage 2 and a backup controller 3. The data insertion system has a first distribution index information obtaining unit 311 that obtains first distribution index information concerni... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011336 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION APPARATUS A storage resource is effectively utilized in migration of a snapshot. First de-duplication efficiency which is de-duplication efficiency of snapshot data, and second de-duplication efficiency which is de-duplication efficiency of snapshot entities created on the basis ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011337 | HETEROGENEOUS REDUNDANT STORAGE ARRAY A method and system is disclosed for providing fault tolerant data storage with built-in backup capabilities, improved I/O performance, and improved utilization of storage devices. A method for writing data includes receiving request to write a logical block of data to ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011311 | STORAGE SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ASSIGNMENT OF STORAGE AREA TO VIRTUAL VOLUME STORING SPECIFIC PATTERN DATA A storage system comprises a storage medium including a plurality of physical storage areas. The storage system controls a host computer to recognize a logical volume having a plurality of virtual storage areas, reads the data from the physical storage area assigned to ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005439 | COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING A CACHE MEMORY AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME A computer includes a memory that stores data, a cache memory that stores a copy of the data, a directory storage unit that stores directory information related to the data and includes information indicating that the data is copied to the cache memory, a directory cach... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005440 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL METHOD A new storage tier is added to a plurality of storage tiers configured in storage areas of a plurality of types of storage devices, whose processing performance is different from each other, without changing its operation form. If a new Tie... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005441 | COPYING APPARATUS, COPYING METHOD, MEMORY MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM A copying apparatus is used for copying data stored in a memory medium including a memory unit storing the data therein and having a management data area in which unique information of the memory medium is stored and a user data area into which user data is written, as ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005468 | STORAGE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE STORAGE UNITS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A storage device with multiple storage units, which is applicable to a system end. The storage device is a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state disk (SSD) with a standard size. The storage device includes a first storage unit and at least one memory storage unit. The me... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320679 | OFFLOADING VOLUME SPACE RECLAMATION OPERATIONS TO VIRTUAL TAPE SYSTEMS A method for offloading volume space reclamation operations to virtual tape systems is disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, such a method includes writing instruction information to a virtual tape system for use in performing a reclamation operation on a source vir... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320710 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD A storage system including: a virtualization apparatus having a control unit, said control unit setting an actual volume for storing data sent from a host apparatus, formed in a storage area provided by a physical disk; and a virtual volume paired with the actual volume... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320768 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, MITIGATING MEMORY BANDWIDTH LIMITATIONS WHEN PERFORMING NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS There is provided a method of, and apparatus for, processing a computation on a computing device comprising at least one processor and a memory, the method comprising: storing, in said memory, plural copies of a set of data, each copy of said set of data having a differ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314242 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR HIERARCHICALLY MANAGING A JOURNAL AND METHOD THEREFOR A computer system having a first storage system which includes a first logical volume and a second logical volume, wherein the second logical volume stores a first differential data item representing a differential between data that was stored in the first logical volum... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314241 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING STORAGE UNIT AND CONNECTION UNIT FOR CONNECTING EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE A main controller of an image forming apparatus allows a user to select whether to perform backup of an internal storage device to an external storage device when detecting that the external storage device is connected to a USB I/F. If the user selects to perform backup... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314239 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD Operation of an environment that supports both host-based replication and array-based replication is realized. According to the present invention, data in the first storage area is copied first to the second storage area using an array-based replication engine. In this ... | 12/22/2011 |
