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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110295 | Keeping File Systems or Partitions Private in a Memory Device Disclosed is a method and apparatus for allowing a user to select, from a plurality of partitions on a memory device, which partitions may be visible to hosts connecting to the memory device.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120047326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMATTING STORAGE VOLUMES Methods, systems, and computer storage mediums including a computer program product method for formatting storage volumes are provided. One method includes creating a storage volume including a global counter and partitioned into multiple storage segments including a se... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047324 | SEQUENTIAL ACCESS STORAGE AND DATA DE-DUPLICATION An example method includes determining a configuration of two or more partitions for a sequential access medium. At least one partition stores data de-duplication data structures while at least one other partition stores a repository of unique data blocks associated wit... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047339 | REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT CLOUDS A computing device executing a reliable cloud storage module divides data into a first data block and a second data block. The computing device stores the first data block in a first storage cloud provided by a first storage service, and stores the second data block in ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120023291 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Adjusting Memory Capacity in Accordance with Data Storage A storage apparatus and method configured to improve efficiency of data access utilizing dynamically adjusting storage zone boundary within a disk are disclosed. A process capable of implementing the flexible zone boundary, in one example, allocates a first zone of a fi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023507 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM ON A HOST OPERATING SYSTEM One example embodiment of a system for implementing a guest operating system on a host operating system is disclosed. The computer system comprises a memory for storing computer executable instructions, wherein the memory comprises a first partition and a second partiti... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017052 | Information Handling System Universal Memory Wear Leveling System and Method An information handling system universal memory architecture assigns memory blocks to information handling system functions, such as a persistent storage function and a working storage function, that have different relative rates of writes of information. The blocks are... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110314468 | UNIFORM STORAGE DEVICE BY PARTIAL VIRTUALIZATION MACHINE In a computing system having a processor package, an operating system, and a physical I/O device, a partial virtual machine is provided to instantiate a virtual I/O device corresponding to the physical I/O device, the virtual I/O device having a virtual I/O controller. ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307680 | STORAGE SYSTEM The temporary area capacity required to be secured with respect to the whole permanent area is calculated in accordance with the capacity and access frequency of a host computer data permanent area of a disk device contained in the storage system and a disk device of an... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296124 | PARTITIONING MEMORY FOR ACCESS BY MULTIPLE REQUESTERS An apparatus comprising a plurality of buffers and a channel router circuit. The buffers may be each configured to generate a control signal in response to a respective one of a plurality of channel requests received from a respective one of a plurality of clients. The ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110283289 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCES IN A PARTITIONED COMPUTING SYSTEM BASED ON RESOURCE USAGE VOLATILITY A system and method for managing resources in a partitioned computing system using determined risk of resource saturation is disclosed. In one example embodiment, the partitioned computing system includes one or more partitions. A volatility of resource usage for each p... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283081 | STAGGERED PROGRAMMING FOR RESISTIVE MEMORIES Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a memory device and method of programming same.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283143 | EMBEDDED GUARD-SANITIZER An apparatus includes a processor; a volatile, high-to-low working memory partition connected to the processor; a volatile, low-to-high working memory partition connected to the processor; a high-side, input/output section providing an interface to a high-side network o... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110271144 | APPROACH FOR DATA INTEGRITY IN AN EMBEDDED DEVICE ENVIRONMENT A system for providing data integrity in an embedded device environment. One approach is operating an embedded control engine with non-battery backup power and providing data backup with inexpensive memory. Just data having changes may be provided to a volatile memory s... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271034 | MULTIPLE PARTITIONED EMULATED ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE (EEE) MEMORY AND METHOD OF OPERATION A method and system wherein a volatile memory is partitioned to have a first percentage of address space dedicated to a first classification of data which is data that is expected to have greater than a predetermined number of times of being modified and a second percen... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271074 | Method for memory management to reduce memory fragments Provided is a method and apparatus for managing a memory. The method and apparatus may allocate or release a memory larger than N bytes through a heap; and the performance of allocating or releasing a memory smaller than or equal to N bytes through a fragless module, wh... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271086 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONTROL MULTIPLE PERIPHERALS WITH A SINGLE-PERIPHERAL APPLICATION CODE Methods and apparatus are provided for enhancing the BIOS of a hardware peripheral device to manage multiple peripheral devices simultaneously without modifying the application software of the peripheral device. The apparatus comprises a logic control unit and a memory ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264885 | CONTROLLING CIRCUIT APPLICABLE IN PHYSICAL STORAGE DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD A controlling circuit applicable in a physical storage device includes: a dividing circuit coupled to the physical storage device for dividing a storage capacity of the physical storage device into a plurality of divided storage areas, wherein a divided storage capacity... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258425 | BOOT PARTITIONS IN MEMORY DEVICES AND SYSTEMS The present disclosure includes boot partitions in memory devices and systems, and methods associated therewith. One or more embodiments include an array of memory cells, wherein the array includes a boot partition and a number of additional partitions. Sequential logic... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252209 | DATA ACCESS METHOD AND SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SYSTEM A data access method for writing data into a storage apparatus is provided, wherein the storage apparatus has a storage unit, the storage unit has a partition, the storage property of the partition is set as a write protect mode and the storage apparatus is coupled to a... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252217 | CAPPING A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS REFERRED TO BY CHUNK REFERENCES As part of a deduplication process, chunks are produced from data. The chunks are assigned to locations in a data store, where the assignments are such that a number of locations referenced is capped according to at least one predefined parameter.... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252191 | METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY SWITCHING PARTITIONS, MEMORY CARD CONTROLLER AND MEMORY CARD STORAGE SYSTEM A method of dynamically switching partitions for a memory card having a plurality of physical blocks is provided. The method includes configuring logical blocks for mapping to at least a portion of the physical blocks and dividing the logical blocks into first and secon... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246744 | SIMULATING MEMORY HOT ADD Memory is logically partitioned into two regions. A first region may be a similar size relative to the second region or the first region may be a small subset of the memory. The first region of memory is initialized and an operating system utilizes the first region. A s... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246598 | MAPPING RDMA SEMANTICS TO HIGH SPEED STORAGE Embodiments described herein are directed to extending remote direct memory access (RDMA) semantics to enable implementation in a local storage system and to providing a management interface for initializing a local data store. A computer system extends RDMA semantics t... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110231597 | DATA ACCESS METHOD, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY STORAGE SYSTEM A data access method for accessing a non-volatile memory module is provided. The data access method includes configuring a plurality of logical addresses and grouping the logical addresses into logical blocks to map to the physical blocks of the non-volatile memory modu... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225379 | VOLUME MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND STORAGE SYSTEM The present invention allocates a suitable physical device to each volume page according to the state transition command relating to paired volumes. A plurality of logical devices forming a logical storage area of a plurality of physical devices of varying performance a... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225386 | DISPERSED STORAGE UNIT CONFIGURATION A dispersed storage (DS) unit for use within a dispersed storage network is capable of self-configuring using registry information provided to the DS unit. The registry information includes a slice name assignment indicating a range of slice names corresponding to a plu... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225466 | DISPERSED STORAGE UNIT SELECTION A dispersed storage device for use within a dispersed storage network operates to select a set of dispersed storage units for storage of a data object by slicing an encoded data segment of a data object into error coded data slices, determining slice metadata for the er... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219204 | GPU SUPPORT FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION A system and method for efficient garbage collection. A general-purpose central processing unit (CPU) partitions an allocated heap according to a generational garbage collection technique. The generations are partitioned into fixed size cards. The CPU marks indications ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213945 | DATA PARTITIONING SCHEME FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES Systems and methods are disclosed for partitioning data for storage in a non-volatile memory (“NVM”), such as flash memory. In some embodiments, a priority may be assigned to data being stored, and the data may be logically partitioned based on the priority. For exa... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208943 | STORAGE SYSTEMS HAVING DIFFERENTIATED STORAGE POOLS The systems and methods described herein include among other things, systems for providing a block level data storage service. More particularly, the systems and methods of the invention provide a block level data storage service that provides differentiated pools of st... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208929 | IN-PLACE VIRTUALIZATION DURING OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION A computing device executing an operating system installer generates a virtual disk image at a temporary location. The computing device copies data from one or more existing partitions on a storage device to the virtual disk image, wherein the one or more existing parti... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202715 | MANAGEMENT-PARTITIONABLE STORAGE SYSTEM, USE METHOD AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF, AND CONTROLLER THEREOF A management partitionable storage system, a use method for the management partitionable storage system, a management method and a controller thereof are provided. Herein, whether the management-partitionable storage system is connected into a host is determined. The ma... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191562 | Apparatus and method for partitioning, sandboxing and protecting external memories A technique to provide an integrated circuit that performs memory partitioning to partition a memory into a plurality of regions, in which the memory is accessed by a plurality of heterogeneous processing devices that operate to access the memory. The integrated circuit... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191564 | Hierarchical Organization Of Large Memory Blocks A multi-bank memory system includes one or more levels of logical memory hierarchy to increase the available random cyclic transaction rate of the memory system. The memory system includes a plurality of multi-bank partitions, each having a corresponding partition inter... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185114 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR READ-WHILE-WRITE WITH NAND MEMORY DEVICE System, method, and program to perform simultaneous read and write operations in a NAND-type memory device, including: assigning a first partition in a NAND-type memory device, wherein the first partition is configured to perform read operations on high priority read co... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110185062 | Qualitative Assignment of Resources to a Logical Partition In a Multipartitioned Computer System A qualitative resource assignment wizard receives qualitative information for a logical partition (LPAR) and calculates computer resource assignments for the LPAR based on the qualitative information and a set of conversion functions. For example, the qualitative resour... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110161551 | VIRTUAL AND HIDDEN SERVICE PARTITION AND DYNAMIC ENHANCED THIRD PARTY DATA STORE A system reserves and manages a hidden service partition through components of the hardware platform of a computing device. The hidden partition is not accessible by way of a host operating system on the computing device. A hardware platform controller provisions a port... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161608 | METHOD TO CUSTOMIZE FUNCTION BEHAVIOR BASED ON CACHE AND SCHEDULING PARAMETERS OF A MEMORY ARGUMENT Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program product of operating a data processing system that can include or be coupled to multiple processor cores. In one or more embodiments, each of multiple memory objects can be populated with work items and can be asso... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110153971 | Data Processing System Memory Allocation The present invention provides a data processing system with multiple logical partitions that isolate memory resources for applications contained in the logical partitions. A method is provided for moving a specific memory quantity between two logical partitions by firs... | 06/23/2011 |
