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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110093675 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING REDUNDANT DATA A method for protecting redundant data is provided. In the present invention, when a working data area and a redundant data area are not destroyed, whether global unique identifiers (GUIDs) of both the working data area and the redundant data area are the same is determ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087850 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORAGE APPARATUS A storage apparatus includes a storage module, a memory having areas storing data to be copied to the storage device, a saving buffer for temporarily saving the data stored in the areas, a control module for executing receiving a write request including the data to be s... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087851 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING DATA STREAMS IN A STORAGE OPERATION Described herein are systems and methods for multiplexing pipelined data for backup operations. Various data streams are combined such as by multiplexing by a multiplexing module. The multiplexing module combines the data from the various data streams received by receiv... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087834 | Memory Package Utilizing At Least Two Types of Memories A memory system and methods for memory manage are presented. The memory system includes a volatile memory electrically connected to a high-density memory; a memory controller that expects data to be written or read to or from the memory system at a bandwidth and a laten... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110082990 | Simple Preconfigured Client Management Failsafe A system, method and computer-usable medium are disclosed for recovering data from a memory storage device. The operating system (OS) of an IPS comprising a source memory storage device, further comprising stored data, is monitored to detect a defective operating state.... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082991 | REMOTE BACKUP WITH LOCAL BUFFERING A method and system for performing a backup operation at a local-area network (LAN) including at least one LAN device and a LAN gateway (GW) includes adding backup data to a local backup archive coupled to the LAN. A request to send backup data may be sent to a data cen... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082992 | COMMUNICATION-LINK-ATTACHED PERSISTENT MEMORY SYSTEM A system and method is described that accesses a network persistent memory unit (nPMU). One embodiment comprises a primary region corresponding to a predefined portion of a primary network persistent memory unit (nPMU) communicatively coupled to at least one client proc... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082972 | BACKING UP FILESYSTEMS TO A STORAGE DEVICE One embodiment is a method that backups up filesystems to a storage device. Filesystems having a longer previous backup time are backed up before filesystems having a shorter previous backup time.... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082989 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MAKING A STORAGE CARD A procedure for reproducing a storage card includes providing a preliminary storage card, wherein the preliminarily storage card has been partitioned into at least a first partitioned region and a second partitioned region and content has been written into the first par... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082837 | BACKUP SIMULATION FOR BACKING UP FILESYSTEMS TO A STORAGE DEVICE Embodiments are directed to methods and apparatus that backup filesystems to a storage device. A backup simulation is used to determine a number of agents to backup the filesystems.... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082962 | MONITORING A DATA STRUCTURE IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE A method for monitoring a data structure maintained by guest software within a virtual machine is disclosed. Changes to the contents of the data structure are determined, such as by placing write traces on the memory pages containing the data structure. Also, the method... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110078397 | REMOTE COPY SYSTEM Even when a host does not give a write time to write data, consistency can be kept among data stored in secondary storage systems. The present system has plural primary storage systems each having a source volume and plural secondary storage systems each having a target... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078398 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC STORAGE TIERING USING ALLOCATE-ON-WRITE SNAPSHOTS The present disclosure describes a systems and methods for dynamic storage tiering A method for dynamic storage tiering may comprise: creating a point-in-time copy of a virtual volume including a storage hot-spot; copying a virtual volume s... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078396 | REMOTE COPY CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM IN STORAGE CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT The present invention causes an asynchronous remote copy to work together with storage clustering technology. A host computer program for controlling the asynchronous remote copy carries out an asynchronous remote copy pair operation by asynchronously working together w... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078463 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR LOW-POWER STORAGE OF PROCESSOR CONTEXT INFORMATION A method and system for saving and/or retrieving context information of a processor core for a power state transition. The processor core resides in a complex power domain variously transitioning between a plurality of power states. The processor core includes a local c... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078384 | MEMORY MIRRORING AND MIGRATION AT HOME AGENT Methods and apparatus relating to memory mirroring and migration at a Home Agent (HA) are described. In one embodiment, a home agent may mirror its data at a slave agent. In some embodiments, a bit in a directory may indicate status of cache lines. Other embodiments are... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078494 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING REPLICATION BY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT CLUSTER A management system, which manages a host computer and a storage system, holds cluster information, specifies an active-state host computer and an inactive-state host computer based on a backup instruction specifying a virtual host identifier, determines the need for ex... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078395 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGING VOLUME ALLOCATION AND VOLUME ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT METHOD In a management computer which manages a storage system including a main logical volume and subsidiary logical volumes, when the access volume to the main logical volume exceeds a threshold value, a subsidiary logical volume associated with a physical volume having high... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078383 | Cache Management for Increasing Performance of High-Availability Multi-Core Systems An apparatus and method for improving performance in high-availability systems are disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, pages of memory of a primary system that are to be shadowed are initially copied to a backup system's memory, as well as to a ca... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078112 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING DUPLICATE FILES IN HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM In order to provide HSM that can effectively use the storage capacity of an upper Tier in an HSM system, a lower Tier of the HSM system detects a group of files having the same data content from a plurality of files stored in the lower Tier, and keeps at least one of th... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078120 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICES FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN AN INTERNET BROWSER AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method, system and devices for communicating between an Internet browser and an electronic device are described. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method for communicating between a computer and an electronic device connected to the computer throu... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072226 | SNAPSHOTTING OF A PERFORMANCE STORAGE SYSTEM IN A SYSTEM FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF A CAPACITY OPTIMIZED STORAGE SYSTEM A system for storing data comprises a performance storage system for storing one or more data items. A data item of the one or more data items comprises a data file or a data block. The system further comprises a segment storage system for storing a snapshot of a stored... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072225 | APPLICATION AND TIER CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT IN DYNAMIC PAGE REALLOCATION STORAGE SYSTEM For storage management in a tiered storage environment in a system having one or more applications running on a host computer which is connected to a storage system, the storage system comprises storage volumes in a pool which are divided into a plurality of tiers havin... | 03/24/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110072224 | SNAPSHOT METADATA MANAGEMENT IN A STORAGE SYSTEM Methods and systems for improving performance in a storage system utilizing snapshots are disclosed by using metadata management of snapshot data. Specifically, various metadata structures associated with snapshots are utilized to reduce the number of IO operations requ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072207 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOGGING OPTIMIZATION USING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY A logging optimization technology using a non-volatile memory is provided. A log record has a first link connected based on a page unit and a second link connected based on a transaction unit. The log record is stored in a non-volatile memory buffer. The log record stor... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072208 | Distributed Storage Resource Scheduler and Load Balancer Distributed storage resources are managed based on data collected from online monitoring of workloads on the storage resources and performance characteristics of the storage resources. Load metrics are calculated from the collected data and used to identify workloads th... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072228 | STORAGE CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME An object of the invention is to provide a storage controller and control method that can efficiently and easily prevent reduced data I/O processing performance due to an imbalance between loads on controllers. In the storage controller and control method for providing,... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072229 | METHOD OF MIRRORING DATA BETWEEN CLUSTERED NAS SYSTEMS Data of a global file system spread over multiple local NAS systems may be consolidated as a copy into a single remote NAS system. When remote copy is set up, the local NAS systems replace referrals within the global file system with directories and send these in place ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110072232 | DISK DRIVE INCLUDING A HOST INTERFACE SUPPORTING DIFFERENT SIZES OF DATA SECTORS AND METHOD FOR WRITING DATA THERETO A method for writing data to a disk drive. The method includes: receiving a write command; and, determining whether a beginning and an end of a rewrite area specified by the write command agree with boundaries of large-sized data sectors on a disk. The method also inclu... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110060884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLAPSING A DERIVATIVE VERSION OF A PRIMARY STORAGE VOLUME Disclosed is a method of collapsing a derivative version of a primary storage volume into the primary storage volume. The method comprises generating the derivative version of the primary storage volume that contains a plurality of data items stored in a secondary stora... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110060883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTERNAL LOGICAL STORAGE VOLUME MANAGEMENT Exemplary embodiments provide logical volume management between multiple storage subsystems or between one or more storage subsystems and a storage service. In one embodiment, a system has a host computer, a storage subsystem, an external system connected with the stora... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110060882 | Request Batching and Asynchronous Request Execution For Deduplication Servers A system and method for processing disk access requests on a deduplication backup server coupled to a storage device. The storage device may store a first set of one or more data items where at least a portion of each data item is stored as a reference to a comparable p... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110055504 | STORAGE SYSTEM When a computer 10 receives a request from the client computer 30 to access snapshot files, the target device to be used is identified. The computer 10 makes a request to the identified target device TD for attachment of the logical device LDEV that... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055505 | DATA COPYING A method, computer management apparatus, and computer program product are provided for copying data in a data processing system. The data processing system includes a host and a plurality of locations. A difference recording operation between a first location of the plu... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055503 | REMOTE ONLINE BACKUP SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON STAGER FRAGMENTED TRANSMISSION The present invention provides a remote online backup method based on stager fragmented transmission, comprising: defining a journal storage system as a journal relay system, i.e., a Journal Stager; dividing the Journal Stager into a Local Journal Stager and a Remote Jo... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055506 | Storage System and Method of Producing Recovery Volume A storage system for writing data sent from a computer to storage regions is described. The storage system includes storage regions configured to store data, and a controller coupled with the storage regions. The controller is configured to control writing of the data f... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055541 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOTING HIBERNATION IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL A method and apparatus for hibernation booting in a mobile terminal supporting two processors are provided. In the hibernation booting method, when power is turned on, a master processor performs hibernation booting. A slave processor performs normal booting under contr... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055462 | MEMORY SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile first memory, a nonvolatile second memory, a data-copy processing unit and a data invalidation processing unit. The first memory has a storage capacity for n (n≧2) pages per word line. The nonvolatile... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055499 | Managing Backup Relationships in a Data Storage System A method for re-establishing a backup relationship between first and second volumes associated with one or more storage media in a data storage system is provided. The method comprises storing first information for preserving the backup relationship, in response to or i... | 03/03/2011 |
