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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110004735 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TWO-PHASE STORAGE-AWARE PLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES Techniques for placement of a virtual machine in a computing system. A first request is sent from a pool management subsystem to a placement subsystem. The first request includes specification of available storage capacities of storage systems in a computer network. The... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110004736 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER SYSTEM A computer system including a first storage system connected to a first host computer, a second storage system connected to a second host computer and a third storage system connected to the first and second storage systems. The second storage system sets transfer setti... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332887 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE HAVING CONTROLLER OPERATED ACCORDING TO DETECTION SIGNAL DERIVED FROM MONITORING POWER SIGNAL AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF One exemplary storage control device for a storage medium includes a controller and a voltage detector, where the controller controls data access of the storage medium, and the voltage detector monitors a power signal and asserts a detection signal to notify the control... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100333089 | COORDINATED RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A VIRTUALIZED SYSTEM A system and methods for reliability management of virtual machines in a host system. The reliability of the host system is monitored and compared with a reliability threshold level for a virtual machine. If the reliability of the host system drops below the reliability... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332782 | Virtualization system and area allocation control method A virtualization system, upon judging that a write operation from a higher-level device is an operation to write in the format of the virtual volume, even when the write position of the write operation is in a virtual area different from a virtual area to which an alloc... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332898 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND COPYBACK PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks each configured to include a plurality of pages, a plurality of page buffers configured to correspond to the plurality of memory blocks and send copyback data, a controller configured to send the copyback... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332778 | CONTROL UNIT FOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICE A storage device includes storage units, a management section that manages a logically defined storage area as a real logical volume by associating the storage area with a physical storage area created using the storage units in advance and manages the logically defined... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332779 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS A method for a storage control apparatus for controlling a plurality of storage units, each of the plurality of storage units having data area for storing data includes receiving a first command for copying data stored in a first data area of the storage units into a se... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332780 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROL APPARATUS A storage system has a storage pool for at least one of a logical volume having a plurality of slices, a memory for storing a slice table indicating whether each slices of the logical volume is assigned from the storage pool or not, and a controller for receiving a rele... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332781 | Secure Document Processing Using Removable Data Storage The subject application is directed to a system and method for secure document processing. A removable storage, such as a flash drive, magnetic storage, IC card, is installed in document processing device. A selected document processing operation, such as copying, scann... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332777 | DATA BACKUP APPARATUS AND DATA BACKUP METHOD A data backup apparatus includes a host interface, a first storage medium interface, a second storage medium interface and a controller. The host interface is utilized to be electrically connected with a host, the first storage medium interface is utilized to be electri... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332401 | PERFORMING DATA STORAGE OPERATIONS WITH A CLOUD STORAGE ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE CLOUD STORAGE SITES Systems and methods are disclosed for performing data storage operations, including content-indexing, containerized deduplication, and policy-driven storage, within a cloud environment. The systems support a variety of clients and cloud storage sites that may connect to... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332454 | PERFORMING DATA STORAGE OPERATIONS WITH A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING CONTAINERIZED DEDUPLICATION, DATA PRUNING, AND DATA TRANSFER Systems and methods are disclosed for performing data storage operations, including content-indexing, containerized deduplication, and policy-driven storage, within a cloud environment. The systems support a variety of clients and cloud storage sites that may connect to... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332744 | DATA RECOVERY AND OVERWRITE INDEPENDENT OF OPERATING SYSTEM Methods and systems to access data in a computer system independent of an operating environment of the computer system, including to recover data to a remote system, to overwrite data, and to copy data to a hidden partition. A management system may directly access a sto... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332776 | COMPUTER SYSTEM REMOTE COPYING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM When a virtual tape of the main storage system is updated, journal data is created. The journal data is transmitted to the disaster recovery storage system asynchronously with the timing at which the write data is received. The journal data includes a marker to notify o... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325471 | HIGH AVAILABILITY SUPPORT FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES A computer implemented method, a tangible computer storage medium, and a data processing system provide high availability support for virtual machines in a logical partitioned platform. A monitoring system detect a failure in the virtual machine. Partition management fi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325378 | DATA MIGRATING METHOD TAKING END TIME INTO CONSIDERATION There is provided a data migrating method including the steps of: calculating, in a case where data stored in a volume is migrated to another volume, a required period of time for migrating the data based on a size of data to be migrated and volume configuration informa... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325355 | STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD A disk array system including a plurality of disk drives, including: a plurality of first-type disk drives being used to form a first-type logical unit having a plurality of a first-type of chunks; a plurality of second-type disk drives being used to form a second-type ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTORING DATA ON DEMAND FOR INSTANT VOLUME RESTORATION A technique is disclosed for restoring data of sparse volumes, where one or more block pointers within the file system structure are marked as ABSENT, and fetching the appropriate data from an alternate location on demand. Client data access requests to the local storag... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325376 | Apparatus and Method to Maintain Write Operation Atomicity Where a Data Transfer Operation Crosses a Data Storage Medium Track Boundary A method to maintain write operation atomicity where a write operation crosses a data storage medium track boundary. The method supplies a storage controller comprising a host adapter, a processor, and a NVS. The primary host adapter receives from a host computer a writ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318812 | SECURE AND PRIVATE BACKUP STORAGE AND PROCESSING FOR TRUSTED COMPUTING AND DATA SERVICES A digital escrow pattern is provided for backup data services including searchable encryption techniques for backup data, such as synthetic full backup data, stored at remote site or in a cloud service, distributing trust across multiple entities to avoid a single point... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318727 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD OF LOADING CODE A memory system comprises a processor, a main memory comprising a volatile random access memory (RAM) that stores data to be accessed by the processor and a nonvolatile memory that provides a swap space for the RAM, and a disk that provides data transfer to the RAM with... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318737 | PROVIDING DATA REDUNDANCY USING AN INTERNAL MASS STORAGE DEVICE AND AN EXTERNAL MASS STORAGE DEVICE A computer includes an enclosure, an internal mass storage device within the enclosure, and a redundancy controller within the enclosure. At least one port enables direct connection of the computer to at least one external mass storage device. The redundancy controller ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA BACKUP A backup control apparatus for periodic data backup, in a virtualized storage system having a point-in-time copy function operable to copy first data into a cascade, comprises a storage targeting component for selecting a target virtual disk for one of a full copy or an... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318720 | Multi-Bank Non-Volatile Memory System with Satellite File System A multi-bank non-volatile memory system is presented. A first of the banks has a main copy of the file system and each of the other banks has a satellite copy of the file system. The back end firmware of the controller executes a thread for each of the banks. After the ... | 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 |
| 20100318756 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TIMING OF COPY START A volume group is a group of two or more copy-source volumes and two or more copy-destination volumes. A computer system stores access rate information, which is information denoting an access rate for a copy-source volume at respective time periods. The computer system... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318782 | SECURE AND PRIVATE BACKUP STORAGE AND PROCESSING FOR TRUSTED COMPUTING AND DATA SERVICES A digital escrow pattern is provided for backup data services including searchable encryption techniques for backup data, such as synthetic full backup data, stored at remote site or in a cloud service, distributing trust across multiple entities to avoid a single point... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318721 | PROGRAM FAILURE HANDLING IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY In a nonvolatile memory system, data received from a host by a memory controller is transferred to an on-chip cache, and new data from the host displaces the previous data before it is written to the nonvolatile memory array. A safe copy is maintained in on-chip cache s... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DATA VOLUME CREATION IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC CHUNK ALLOCATION CAPABILITY Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for controlling data volume creation at the storage system. In one embodiment, a storage system comprises a processor; a memory; and a plurality of chunks that are to be allocated to data volumes, each chunk hav... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312977 | Method of managing memory in multiprocessor system on chip Provided is a method of managing memory in a multiprocessor system on chip (MPSoC). According to an aspect of the present invention, locality of memory can be reflected and restricted memory resources can be efficiently used by determining a storage location of a variab... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100313044 | STORAGE ARRAY POWER MANAGEMENT THROUGH I/O REDIRECTION A storage system can comprise multiple storage devices with differing characteristics, including differing power-related characteristics. A storage power manager can redirect Input/Output (I/O) communications to storage devices to maximize the power efficiency of the st... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312958 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD A storage system includes an interface processor for receiving a read or write request, a primary storage, a secondary storage, a storage control device and a temporary storage area for temporarily storing data for the primary storage in case that an access to the prima... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100313066 | REMOTE BACKUP STORAGE Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a backup utility are described. One example system causes a backup utility to identify a remote device as local to a client device. Backup data may then be retained on the remote device identified by the backup uti... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312751 | DATA RETENTION USING LOGICAL OBJECTS Various embodiments are provided for facilitation of data retention using logical objects. Following an operation creating a redundant copy of the data performed on a scheduled interval, a logical object containing a number of managed file versions, represented by a num... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100313191 | System and Method for Modifying Firmware A system and method for updating software in an information handling system are disclosed. One or more relationships between a firmware package and a set of components associated with the information handling system are generated. A first storage partition identifier is... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312954 | Multi-Chip Semiconductor Devices Having Non-Volatile Memory Devices Therein A flash memory device and a flash memory system are disclosed. The flash memory device includes a first non-volatile memory including a plurality of page data cells, storing page data, and reading and outputting the stored page data when a read command is applied from a... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306774 | Instant-On Computing System A hypervisor loads a saved virtual machine image to provide an instant-on computing environment. A request may be received to switch from the instant-on computing environment to a native operating system. In response to such a request, the native operating system is exe... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100306486 | POLICY-BASED APPLICATION AWARE STORAGE ARRAY SNAPSHOT BACKUP AND RESTORE TECHNIQUE A method and system for performing a policy-based backup and recovery operation in a storage network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing a backup and restore operation in a storage network includes detecting each application entity in the storage net... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100306487 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS An information storage medium includes: a user data area for recording user data; a spare area including spare blocks each for replacing a defective block occurring in the user data area; and a defect management area in which information about the defective block occurr... | 12/02/2010 |
