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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050076262 | Storage management device A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage. By accessing units of storage in response to a time, prior images of a data store... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050076264 | Methods and devices for restoring a portion of a data store A storage management device receives a request to restore a portion of a data store to its content at a specified past time, which is selected from a substantially continuous time interval. In response to the received request, the storage management device stores in the... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050076261 | Method and system for obtaining data stored in a data store A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage. By accessing units of storage in response to a time, prior images of a data store... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050071549 | Low-cost remote data mirroring A method for storing data received from a host processor at a primary storage subsystem in a data storage system includes writing the data to a first volatile cache memory in the primary storage subsystem and copying the data from the primary storage subsystem to a seco... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071710 | Method, system, and program for mirroring data among storage sites Provided are a method, system, and program for forming a consistency group of data. A command is received to form a consistency group with respect to data received at a first storage site that is mirrored to a second storage site. A first data structure is provided indi... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071708 | Method, system, and program for recovery from a failure in an asynchronous data copying system A method of recovery from a data storage system failure in a data storage system having a host computer writing data updates to a local storage controller at a local site. The local controller is associated with a local storage device. The local storage controller is al... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071590 | Method of managing generation of backup data and storage control device used therefor A method of managing a generation of backup data in a storage system is carried out by a storage control device. The backup data is data generated in each of a plurality of pairs originating from one volume. The method includes: receiving, from a host computer, a split ... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071589 | Appliance for asynchronous data storage mirroring A method for managing a data storage system includes maintaining a record predictive of locations to which data are to be written on a first storage medium by a host computer. Upon receiving a write command from the host computer directed to storing specified data at a ... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071588 | Method, system, and program for forming a consistency group Provided are a method, system, and program for forming a consistency group of data. Information is provided on a consistency group relationship indicating a plurality of slave controllers and, for each indicated slave controller, a slave storage unit managed by the slav... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071587 | Node removal using remote back-up system memory A method and system for method of removing a node from a multi-node computer. The node receives a system management interrupt (SMI), resulting in a quiescenting of only that node. The SMI receiving node then polls other nodes in the multi-node computer to determine if t... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071586 | Method, system, and program for asynchronous copy Disclosed is a technique for maintaining consistency of data. One or more blocks of data identified by a first structure are copied to form a consistent set of data. While not acknowledging completion of write requests to any blocks of data, a second structure is create... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071585 | Storage system with symmetrical mirroring A method for managing a data storage system includes copying data stored on a first storage subsystem to a second storage subsystem in an asynchronous mirroring process. A record is maintained on the second storage subsystem, indicative of locations at which the data ha... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071584 | Apparatus and method for writing data to mirrored storage using multiple tasks working in parallel An apparatus and method provides the capability of mirroring storage from a primary system to a mirrored system in a way that uses parallelism in the mirrored system to maximize the efficiency of writing data to the mirrored storage for operations that do not conflict w... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071556 | Data storage system having shared resource A system interface having a plurality of directors, one portion of such directors being adapted for coupling to a host computer/server and another portion of the directors being adapted for coupling to a bank of disk drives. The plurality of directors are interconnected... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071436 | System and method for detecting and sharing common blocks in an object storage system A system and method of optimizing storage of common data blocks within a networked storage system comprises receiving a data block to be stored in the networked storage system, analyzing contents of the received data block to determine how many copies of the data block ... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050066139 | Recording apparatus and method, and communication device and method The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and method and communication apparatus and method suitably for use in supplying the encoded data of accumulated music for example to a semiconductor memory or a portable device. In step S461, the content data... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050066128 | Storage system A disk array includes a drive management unit, which is a program for identifying kinds of disk devices and managing different disk devices separately, and a drive management table for storing information to be utilized by the drive management unit. The disk array furth... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050060507 | Remote storage disk control device with function to transfer commands to remote storage devices A storage device system includes an information processing device and at least first and second storage devices. The first and second storage devices are equipped with first and second storage volumes, respectively. The information processing device generates first data... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060506 | Storage system and storage control device A first storage control device is provided with a virtual LU for showing a logical volume possessed by a second storage control device as if it were its own volume. When data processing requested from a host device is, for example, a specific processing of large load (s... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060505 | Remote storage disk control device and method for controlling the same A storage device system includes an information processing device, a first storage device equipped with a first storage volume, and a second storage device equipped with a second storage volume. The information processing device and the first storage device are communic... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050055521 | Backup system and method The present invention makes it possible to suitably create additional information on the basis of backup target data and then store the additional information in a data storage medium. In one embodiment, a system comprises a backup destination storage device (7A)... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055520 | Backup system and method A backup system and method enables a user to configure the backup, data mirroring and/or a data copying process on a fine granularity level by configuring buffer memories of backup media agents and/or restore media agents which are coupled in one or more daisy-chain con... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055523 | Data processing system A data processing system includes at least a first storage system, a second storage system and a third storage system. The third storage system maintains a replication of data stored in the first storage system. When updating data in the first storage system, the first ... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050050286 | Apparatus and method for asynchronous logical mirroring An apparatus and method provides the capability of mirroring storage between geographically remote locations in an asynchronous manner that does not require all writes on primary storage to be performed in the same order on the mirrored storage. The mirroring of the pre... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050050266 | Method and system of storing data in independent memories Application data is stored in a redundant array of independent memories. In one embodiment, the application data is entered in a first memory. The first memory is parked when the first memory has received the application data. The second memory is unparked and applicati... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050050285 | Memory control system and method for installing new memory A system and method is described for installing a new memory into a redundant array of independent memories. The method comprises initiating a duplication function in a processor, transmitting an empty data indication from the new memory to the processor, and replicatin... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050050288 | Storage system, method of controlling storage system, and storage device The present invention provides a storage system and a method of controlling the storage system, in which a second site rapidly resumes system process when a first site is damaged. The storage system comprises a first site including a first storage device, a second site ... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050050287 | Apparatus and method to adjust data transfer rate A method to adjust the data transfer rate for one of (N) primary backup appliances. The method forms by a first primary backup appliance at least one consistent transactions set. The first primary backup appliance receives the (n)th status signal, and the (n+1)th status... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050044332 | Systems and methods for storing data on computer systems Methods for storing data on computer systems are provided. An embodiment of a method comprises: identifying a first portion of volatile memory of a computer system that is being used to store data; identifying a second portion of the volatile memory that is not being us... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050038968 | Multi-site remote-copy system Two storage areas are created in a first storage subsystem, a synchronous remote copy is performed from a first storage area included in the first storage subsystem to a storage area included in a second storage subsystem, and an asynchronous remote copy is performed fr... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050033911 | Virtual tape library device A storage device system comprises interfaces connected to computers, a plurality of magnetic disks, and a control device that controls the plurality of magnetic disks. When a command from one of the computers instructing a tape library device to load a magnetic tape int... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050033932 | System and method for data migration A method for concurrent data migration includes classifying files to be migrated into plural jobs, selecting media to which to migrate each job, and using plural drives concurrently to write the jobs to the media. The selection of a medium is performed in a way that pre... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050033931 | Data processing system and method Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method for saving data stored within a portion of a memory associated with a first process executable by a data processing system; the method comprising the steps of: executing, substantially concurrently or... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050033930 | High-speed snapshot method When a snapshot of data is taken, it is after a write request comes from the host equipment that old data on the source-side magnetic disk to the snapshot-side magnetic disk; therefore, it takes a long time before new data is actually written in the source-side magnetic... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050033929 | Snapshot management method apparatus and system Snapshot sets comprising snapshot criteria are created, maintained, and executed via a command set designed to facilitate managing and conducting snapshots on data distributed across multiple volumes. Snapshot criteria such as source volume, target volume, redundancy le... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050033800 | Hierarchical system and method for performing storage operations in a computer network A system for performing storage operations using hierarchically configured storage operation cells, the system comprising: a first storage manager component; and a first storage operation cell, the first storage operation cell having a second storage manager component d... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050027955 | Method and system for synchronizing storage system data A method and system are provided for comparing data stored in a first storage system with corresponding data stored in a second storage system. In one implementation, the first system generates a random value associated with a respective data block P, and transmits to t... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050028025 | Method and apparatus for creating a storage pool by dynamically mapping replication schema to provisioned storage volumes A method and apparatus for creating a dynamic storage pool for data recovery, is presented. The method may include determining amount of an available storage area, identifying storage capabilities of the available storage area, selecting a protection policy scheme for r... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050027956 | System and method for using file system snapshots for online data backup A system for data backup includes a storage device, a backup storage device, and an intermediate storage device. Backup procedure is performed on-line and copies data blocks from the storage device into the backup storage device. When a write command is directed to a da... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050027935 | Single head disk drive having backup system information and method of recording and/or reading system information thereof A disk drive having a single head for recording data on and reading data from a disk-type recording medium, the disk drive including: a spindle motor to rotate the disk-type recording medium; and a controller to drive the spindle motor and the single head. The controlle... | 02/03/2005 |
