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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110029810 | AUTOMATED FAILURE RECOVERY OF SUBSYSTEMS IN A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Systems and methods for automated failure recovery of subsystems of a management system are described. The subsystems are built and modeled as services, and their management, specifically their failure recovery, is done in a manner similar to that of services and resour... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022889 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS AND PHYSICAL DISK RESTORATION METHOD The invention provides a disk array apparatus and a physical disk restoration method for managing a used area and an unused area of a faulty physical disk and shortening the time required for the physical disk to become usable by an external unit. The disk array apparat... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100275057 | Data Storage Device In-Situ Self Test, Repair, and Recovery A method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing a set of operations on a data storage device is provided. A data storage device is flagged as suspect. The adapter suspends the suspect data storage device from participation in the RAID array, assigns the... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100257402 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM OF DISK ARRAY DEVICE Provided is a disk array device which enables the amount of use of a physical disk to be reduced as much as possible even when there exist a plurality of logic extents of the same data. A disk array device which assigns, to a physical extent of a physical disk, a logic ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100229033 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE SYSTEM A storage system includes data storage devices, spare storage devices used when a failure occurs in a data storage devices, a group management unit that divides the data storage devices into groups and implements a redundancy, a data storage device restoration unit that... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223496 | Highly Reliable Storage System and Internal Network Thereof The disk controller has a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of cache memories, a plurality of disk control units, and a plurality of internal switch units. Each channel control unit or disk control unit sends to one of the cache memory units a request pack... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100218040 | Method and Apparatus for an Improved File Repository A method and apparatus for of storing data comprising monitoring a plurality of storage units within a mass storage area and detecting when a storage unit within the mass storage area is overloaded. The method further comprising randomly distributing the data on the ove... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100192007 | FIRMWARE UPDATE FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICE To update firmware on a consumer device intelligently, two or more application images are stored as firmware on the consumer device. If the primary application image is corrupt, the back-up application image is executed on the consumer device. The back-up application im... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100174940 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus has a first storage unit and a second storage unit and operates in one of a normal power mode and a power saving mode. When the information processing apparatus is operating in the power saving mode, if an error occurs in a storage pr... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100169707 | FAILURE HANDLING USING OVERLAY OBJECTS ON A FILE SYSTEM USING OBJECT BASED STORAGE DEVICES A system and method for data storage in an array. A system includes a client coupled to a storage subsystem including data storage locations addressable as rows and columns in an array. Each column comprises a separate storage device. Each row includes redundant data. F... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100122115 | Storage Device Realignment Realigning storage devices arranged as storage arrays when one of the storage arrays enters a critical state after failure of a storage device is disclosed. The method is particularly useful for RAID groups of storage devices. The method may be used with hard disk drive... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100100888 | Resource allocation A technique for executing a segmented virtual machine (VM) is disclosed. A plurality of core VM's is implemented in a plurality of core spaces. Each core VM is associated with one of a plurality of shell VM's. Resources of the core spaces are allocated among the core VM... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100095060 | LOCATION-INDEPENDENT RAID GROUP VIRTUAL BLOCK MANAGEMENT A computer storage system is described. A range of volume block numbers (VBNs) is assigned to a volume. A range of storage device block numbers (DBNs) is assigned to each of a plurality of storage devices. A first mapping parameters are created to map a first range of V... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100083040 | Expander Circuit For A Solid State Persistent Storage Device That Provides A Plurality Of Interfaces To Corresponding Storage Controllers A system includes a solid state persistent storage device, and a plurality of storage controllers to manage access of the solid state persistent storage device. An expander circuit is connected to the solid state persistent storage device and has a plurality of computer... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100050016 | PREVENTING WRITE CORRUPTION IN A RAID ARRAY A method and related computer program product of preventing write corruption in a redundant array in a computer system, comprising detecting a write failure from a calling application to at least one disk of the redundant array, writing failure information to non-volati... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100031082 | Prioritized Rebuilding of a Storage Device Rebuilding a storage device after failure of a storage device is disclosed. The method is particularly useful for RAID groups of hard disks. The method may also apply to other storage media arranged as a group. The method includes rebuilding a hard disk in a non-linear ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090327803 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD A RAID is configured using plural nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices to enable recovery of data stored in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices, and data is read from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device included in the RAID in response to a data rea... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090287880 | ONLINE STORAGE CAPACITY EXPANSION OF A RAID STORAGE SYSTEM The methods and structure herein provide for expanding the storage capacity of a RAID storage system while maintaining the same level of RAID storage management. A RAID storage controller may be coupled between a host computer and a RAID storage volume. The RAID storage... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090282285 | Semiconductor Integrated Circuit, Design Support Software System, And Automatic Test Pattern Generation System A semiconductor integrated circuit has a memory circuit having memory cells, a first register, a second register, a register selection circuit having an input to which an output of the first register and an output of the second register are connected, a memory bypass ci... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090276568 | Storage system, data processing method and storage apparatus Proposed are a storage system, data processing method and storage apparatus capable of performing stable data I/O processing. Each of the storage apparatuses configured in the storage group stores group configuration information containing priority information given to ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090271659 | RAID REBUILD USING FILE SYSTEM AND BLOCK LIST This embodiment (a system) addresses and reduces the RAID build time by only rebuilding the used blocks and omitting the unused blocks. This starts after a disk drive from a RAID system is failed and replaced and storage controller starts the process of rebuilding the d... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090259882 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DISK DRIVES WITH UNREPORTED DATA CORRUPTION A RAID controller uses a method to identify a storage device of a redundant array of storage devices that is returning corrupt data to the RAID controller. The method includes reading data from a location of each storage device in the redundant array a first time, and d... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090199042 | Disk Array System and Control Method Thereof A disk array system, upon detecting a failure in any data disk from among a plurality of data disks providing one or more RAID groups, conducting a correction copy to any spare disk, using one or more other data disks belonging to the same RAID group as the data disk ca... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090193290 | System and Method to Use Cache that is Embedded in a Memory Hub to Replace Failed Memory Cells in a Memory Subsystem A memory system, data processing system, and method are provided for using cache that is embedded in a memory hub device to replace failed memory cells. A memory module comprises an integrated memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises an integrated memory devic... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090187786 | PARITY DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPARATUS AND METHOD An apparatus for parity data management receives a write command and write data from a computing device. The apparatus also builds a parity control structure corresponding to updating a redundant disk array with the write data and stores the parity control structure in ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090177918 | STORAGE REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DRIVES A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing redundant array of independent drives. In response to a failure of a hard disk in a first RAID array, the process calculates an amount of free capacity available across a set of r... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090172468 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DEFERRED MAINTENANCE ON STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS A set of disks in a plurality of disk arrays are configured to have one or more spare partitions. Upon detecting a faulty disk in a faulty array, the method involves the steps of: (a) migrating data in the faulty array containing the faulty disk to one or more spare par... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090144583 | Memory Circuit The invention provides a memory circuit comprising a plurality of storage cells for storing data and redundant spare storage cells for replacing defective storage cells, and a memory access logic for accessing said storage cells connected to a replacement setting regist... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090125754 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SYSTEM RELIABILITY BY MANAGING SWITCHED DRIVE NETWORKS An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for improving system reliability by managing switched drive networks. An off-network pool of storage devices is logically isolated from an array of storage devices. A detection module detects a failed storage device. A repo... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090113237 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM A storage control device includes a first rebuilding unit rebuilding information stored in one of a plurality of storages that fails by using information stored in the plurality of storages excluding said failed storage and storing rebuilt information in a spare storage... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090100291 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING A SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY A block repair device is used in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) having a primary array with a defective cell and a redundant array with a redundant row. The block repair device stores a block repair configuration that determines the dimensions (e.g., the number o... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090094480 | Alternatively Activating a Replaceable Hardware Unit A data processing system having a plurality of hardware units providing a predetermined set of functional capabilities. The data processing system is configurable to allow selectively electronically enabling at least a subset of the functional capabilities. The system c... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090070626 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPERATING SYSTEM BARE-METAL RECOVERY A system and method of recovering a system on replacement hardware includes booting the replacement hardware from an operating system disk. A recovery media is coupled to the replacement hardware to provide access to system information for restoring programming to repla... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090063895 | SCALEABLE AND MAINTAINABLE SOLID STATE DRIVE Methods and apparatus for maintaining a solid state disk drive facilitate expansion of storage capacity and maintenance of internal memory storage media, for example, are disclosed. Memory modules are adapted for removable installation in a solid state drive allowing fo... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090049335 | System and Method for Managing Memory Errors in an Information Handling System A method for handling memory defects during the POST phase and memory calibration in single processor and multiprocessor information handling systems is disclosed whereby information regarding the location of a known memory defect is utilized to optimize the performance... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090044047 | ACCESSING REMOVABLE STORAGE MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO OBTAIN REPLACEMENT INSTRUCTIONS INDICATING WHETHER TO REPLACE REMOVABLE STORAGE Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for accessing removable storage management services to obtain replacement instructions indicating whether to replace removable storage. Replacement information indicating whether to replace at least one of a plur... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080263393 | STORAGE CONTROLLER AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD Spare disk drives are provided to a chassis for storing storage devices, and, when any one of the storage devices configuring RAID fails, the storage controller copies data of the failed storage device to a spare storage device, and recognizes an additional storage devi... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080229144 | FLEXIBLE ROW REDUNDANCY SYSTEM A row redundancy system is provided for replacing faulty wordlines of a memory array having a plurality of banks. The row redundancy system includes a remote fuse bay storing at least one faulty address corresponding to a faulty wordline of the memory array; a row fuse ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080209264 | Method for Automatic Dump Assurance A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer usable program product are provided for adjusting a dump file space in a data processing system. Events with a potential to cause a dump are detected in a data processing system. A dump file size is estimated b... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080168304 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DATA STORAGE USING PROGRESSIVE RAID An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for data storage with progressive redundant array of independent drives (“RAID”). A storage request receiver module, a striping module, a parity-mirror module, and a parity progression module are included. The storage r... | 07/10/2008 |
