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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7899778 | Category based user interface for management of auxiliary storage on a portable computer system Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for a category based user interface for management of information stored on auxiliary storage of a portable computer system, e.g., a PDA. In one embodiment, files can be copied to a removable storage u... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7743319 | System and method providing diffgram format The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate XML data communications and processing. A diffgram data structure is provided that includes one or more states of a plurality of data records. The state information can be determined by examinin... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734573 | Efficient recovery of replicated data items Methods and apparatuses are provided for recovering one or more replicated datasets. In accordance to some embodiments of the invention, this is accomplished by determining whether a log contains one or more entries indicating a corruption in a replicated data item;... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7721191 | File save method for HTML files using recovery files including a list with temporary and final names for replacement files A computer-implemented process for replacing old files having old names on a permanent storage medium with new files in volatile memory. Some of these files may be opaque files, which are old files that have become new files without undergoing any changes, other tha... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7702660 | I/O free recovery set determination In a multi-node database system, a list of data blocks to perform recovery operations on in the event of failure of a given node is dynamically maintained on another node. List is available when the given node fails, and allows the database to be made available more... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702659 | Robust, self-maintaining file system A method of managing a data storage medium. One portion of the medium is reserved for storing data files and directories. Another, separate portion of the medium is reserved for storing allocation information related to the data in the first portion. Upon beginning ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698309 | Advanced fine-grained administration of recovering transactions A method, system, and computer program product provides advanced and fine-grained transaction administration features, along with interoperability between transactional software architectures and business entities. A method of administering recovering transactions c... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693879 | Database system including center server and local servers A database system includes a center server and local servers. The center server includes a replication requesting unit, a data consolidating unit including a center DB freeze requesting unit and a center DB freeze release requesting unit, a replication source managi... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689599 | Repair of inconsistencies between data and metadata stored on a temporal volume using transaction log replay Method, system, and apparatus for maintaining consistent images of metadata and data in a file system or other data journaling software stored on a temporal volume are presented. An intent log is maintained of all data and metadata modifying transactions, which is t... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685172 | In-flight file descriptors checkpoint A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for enabling the restoration of in-flight file descriptors during a checkpoint operation. Responsive to a checkpoint operation being initiated on a process in a workload partition, i... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685170 | Journaling database queries for database replication A database journal mechanism stores both row operations and database queries in a database journal. The database queries in the journal provide significant additional information that may be used in a number of different ways. For example, a database replication sen... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685171 | Techniques for performing a restoration operation using device scanning Described are techniques for performing restoration processing for a data segment. A list of tokens is received. The list represents a first data state of said data segment. Each of the tokens correspond to a data portion of said data segment. Data portions of the d... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680837 | File management method for log-structured file system for sequentially adding and storing log of file access There is disclosed a file management method in a log-structured file system for storing accesses to files that are sequentially performed by sequentially adding logs. A storage area of a storage medium is previously divided into a data area for storing a log includi... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680836 | Systems and methods for a snapshot of data In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a u... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676502 | Recovery point data view shift through a direction-agnostic roll algorithm A method and system of recovery point data view shift through a direction-agnostic roll algorithm is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a data view around a recovery point, and shifting the data view around the recovery point through a direction... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676503 | Hybrid computer restore using network service A backup file is generated to capture the current state of a computer. The computer state may be restored to the computer in a hybrid manner at a later time by accessing some files and/or data included in the backup file and downloading other files contained in a li... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668875 | Data storage device, method of rearranging data and recording medium therefor When there is a constituent tape that is other than the process target magnetic tape (Yes in step S15), valid data on the process target magnetic tape is copied onto that constituent tape (step S22). For this process, the magnetic tape that stores the ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668874 | Disaster recovery processing method and apparatus and storage unit for the same A technique capable of constructing a disaster recovery system reduced in performance degradation of a primary system is provided. The technique includes a step of conducting synchronous writing of log information into a secondary storage subsystem in a secondary sy... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664790 | Cascade delete processing A time-efficient means for identifying and processing cascading deletes due to referential constraint violations includes: logging, to an error file, all primary key (“PK”) errors detected during table load operations; building a foreign key (“FK”) index for... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664791 | Concurrent creation of persistent point-in-time images of multiple independent file systems A storage server maintains multiple file systems in a storage subsystem. A read-only, persistent, point-in-time image of all of the file systems is generated in one atomic operation. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664792 | System and method for recovering databases on a mainframe computer A system and method for performing database recovery operations. A mainframe computer may include multiple databases stored on a storage unit. A processing unit may be configured to receive and schedule jobs submitted for execution. An electronic display may be in c... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660832 | System recovery method and computer system using the same A recovery method that uses log takes a long time to recover, and another recovery method that uses backup has the difficulties that if a computer abnormally stops its conversion process due to a failure, the result of the conversion performed up to the time of that... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657576 | Asynchronous change capture for data warehousing A method and software for change data capture are disclosed, in which change data is extracted from a recovery log and stored in a database object. The change data indicates what modification has been performed to a source object on the OLTP system. In some embodime... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650366 | System and method for generating a crash consistent persistent consistency point image set A technique for generating a crash consistent set of persistent consistency point image set associated with a storage space is provided. A client side agent obtains a first set of read/write statistics before causing storage systems to generate persistent consistenc... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650367 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting and restoring missing or corrupted data in a distributed, scalable, redundant measurement platform database Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting and restoring missing or corrupted data in a distributed, scalable, redundant measurement platform database are disclosed. According to one method, a local database including local database entries is aud... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650368 | Methods, systems, and products for restoring electronic media Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for restoring media. A media catalog is received and stored. When restoration is desired, an identity of a media file is retrieved, a peer contact list is accessed, and a preferred ranking of the peers is retrieved. A que... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650369 | Database system management method and database system A control device 10 at a main center, in order for an update carried out in an operation database device M to be also conducted in an operation database device S at a sub-center, generates and transmits a differential log file 16 to a control device | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647361 | Automatically maintaining metadata in a file backup system A technology for automatically saving an original copy of an image file in a location hidden from a user is disclosed. The technology accesses metadata associated with an image file and determines whether an original copy of the image file exists. Provided an origin... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7640276 | Backup system, program and backup method Provided is a backup method including a step (S1) of reading a log which is a data update difference, and identifying a data storage area (page) of backup data, a step (S2) of determining high/low reusability of the identified data storage area, a step... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7640275 | Method and system for controlling recovery downtime A method and system for reducing overhead associated with recovering after a failure. According to the method, a checkpoint value is maintained that indicates which records of a plurality of records have to be processed after the failure. The plurality of records co... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636741 | Online page restore from a database mirror A set of servers takes advantage of the existing data redundancy of a mirrored database to restore page corruptions. The page restore may occur with none of the time and/or administration costs of a restore from backup media and without the data loss associated with... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634511 | User interface for viewing logical representation of a database backed up by a database recovery manager Various methods and systems for presenting a logical view of a database backup are disclosed. One method involves querying a database recovery manager for logical identifiers that correspond to physical backup pieces generated during a backup. The method uses the lo... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634512 | Migrating temporary data of a session A technique for migrating (e.g., “copying” or “moving”) temporary data from one session to another session is provided. While executing a workload associated with a particular session, session state is created. A subset of the session state comprises large o... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634510 | Method and system for time-based reclamation of objects from a recycle bin in a database A system for managing dropped objects of a database. The system comprises a finite amount of disk space for temporarily storing the dropped objects. The system further includes an indexer for assigning time stamps to each of the dropped objects and a reclaimer for r... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627612 | Methods and apparatus for optimal journaling for continuous data replication Methods and systems for continuous data replication, including receiving a write transaction from a production site, the write transaction including raw data (RWNEW), a size indicator (SZ1) for the size of the raw data, and a start address (ADD1) for w... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624129 | Dual logging of changes to a user preference in a computer device A computer device for logging changes to a user preference includes two log files, and a first and second file. The changes are written to the first file. The changes are then flushed to the log file with a marker. The marker is moved to the other log file before th... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620660 | Pre-image logging for database recovery In order to provide recovery for a database stored on storage not meeting the WAL protocol requirements, for example, storage including a temporary cache and a second storage (e.g. an IDE disk with a temporary cache and a hard disk), a log is created including, for ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620661 | Method for improving the performance of database loggers using agent coordination A method for substantially reducing the latency of the database (DB) logging process by removing the agent notification requirement from the DB logger and allowing the DB logger to proceed to the next commit process without the latency of providing each waiting agen... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617254 | Method and mechanism for relational access of recovery logs in a database system The present invention is directed to a method and mechanism for accessing recovery log information in a database system. The data stored in the recovery log is presented as a relational database “view,” which can be queried and accessed using relational database... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617255 | Storage system, storage control device and recovery point detection method for storage control device The present invention supports the selection of an appropriate recovery point, even if a point of recovery is unknown. The user issues a retrieval request from the host by specifying a recovery target file name (path name) and retrieval conditions (key word). The pa... | 11/10/2009 |
