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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412460 | DBMS backup without suspending updates and corresponding recovery using separately stored log and data files A method for performing a system level backup of a log-ahead database management system (DBMS) without suspending updates by application programs is described. The DBMS comprises a database mainline system, a backup utility and a restore utility. The data and log re... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409510 | Instant virtual copy to a primary mirroring portion of data Techniques are provided for performing a copy operation. An instant virtual copy operation is issued from a first portion of data to a primary mirroring portion of data, wherein the primary mirroring portion of data corresponds to a secondary mirroring portion of da... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409470 | Determining configuration data in connection with dynamic RDF Dynamically creating a communication path between first and second storage devices, includes creating a connection to a source volume on the first storage device and indicating that the source volume is not ready to transmit data on the communication path, after suc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406488 | Method and system for maintaining data in a continuous data protection system A method and system where data is maintained in a continuous data protection system is disclosed. A primary volume may be protected according to an any-point-in-time (APIT) window wherein restores may be performed at any time as desired. The APIT window may be of an... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406618 | Apparatus for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server's Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a ser... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406487 | Method and system for performing periodic replication using a log Disclosed is a method and system for performing periodic replication using a write-ordered log. According to one embodiment, a plurality of write operations to a primary data volume are tracked using a write operation log and then data associated with the plurality ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403958 | Synchronization-replication concurrency using non-shared snapshot query on a history table at read-uncommitted isolation level A method and system for synchronization-replication concurrency maintain a history table for a data table in a mirror, where the history table can include redundant version values that indicate a period in which data values corresponding to the version values are va... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403987 | Transactional SAN management System and method for performing transactional management tasks on a Storage Area Network (SAN). A user may initiate a SAN management task. A transaction may be generated that includes one or more operations to perform the SAN management task. In one embodiment, sto... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403957 | Image forming apparatus having control codes and rewrite control method for the same In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes ada... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401093 | System and method for managing file data during consistency points A system and method for managing file data during consistency points in a file system is provided. A buffer data control structure is modified to include a flags array that tracks various status flags for both a current and a next consistency point (CP). By utilizin... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7401102 | Management of global counters in transactions A method for tracking transactions performed on a non-volatile storage medium. The medium consists of a plurality of storage ranges. The method includes assigning respective local counters to the plurality of storage ranges, the local counters having respective loca... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398286 | Method and system for assisting in backups and restore operation over different channels A method and system for assisting with backup and restore operations of data stored in a data storage system is provided. The server and client processes of the backup and restore application include software which allow both processes to communicate with one anothe... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398422 | Method and apparatus for data recovery system using storage based journaling A storage system maintains a journal and a snapshot of one or more data volumes. Two journal entry types are maintained, an AFTER journal entry and a BEFORE journal entry. Two modes of data recovery are provided: “fast” recovery and “undo-able” recovery. A c... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398529 | Method for managing objects created in a directory service A computerized method for managing objects created in a directory service of a distributed computing environment, including a component for backing up and restoring a single or plurality of directory service objects, a component for delegating security privileges to... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395283 | Method and apparatus for making independent data copies in a data processing system A method for copying data from a source logical device to a destination logical device. In response to a copy command from a requesting host application identifying the source and destination logical devices, an environment is established. Thereafter a calling syste... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395278 | Transaction consistent copy-on-write database A database view of a database is created which provides a transaction-consistent view of an existing database at a previous time. Each database view contains all the information needed to, along with the primary database, determine the contents of the primary databa... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395282 | Hierarchical backup and retrieval system The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in th... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392245 | Direct call threaded code A pre-pass and direct call mechanism which replaces the interpreter. The mechanism moves static decisions out of the repeated runtime path into a pre-pass operation. Advantageously, the mechanism reduces runtime overhead and improves overall performance of the DBMS ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392357 | Snapshot format conversion method and apparatus A system according to this invention converts a full-copy snapshot into a differential snapshot. The system is composed of a storage subsystem and a server subsystem. The storage subsystem comprises a disk drive and a disk controller. The server subsystem comprises ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392425 | Mirror split brain avoidance A data storage system has two computers. Each computer is assigned to a set of data. Two copies of each set of data are maintained. A first copy is stored on a first set of disks and a second copy is stored on a second set of disks. Each time that a data is written ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389308 | Shadow paging Shadow paging is a technique used to achieve atomic and durable transactions, and provides the ability to manipulate pages in a database. During a transaction, the pages affected by the transaction are copied from the database file into a workspace, such as volatile... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386614 | Method allowing persistent links to web-pages A system that enables creation of URL addresses in which the path information is partially or entirely symbolic. The symbolic path information is maintained even after the physical path information is altered, whereby users do not have to learn or provide constantly... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386715 | System and method for replicating data in a distributed system It is common in distributed systems to replicate data. In many cases, this data evolves in a consistent fashion, and this evolution can be modeled. A probabilistic model of the evolution allows us to estimate the divergence of the replicas and can be used by the app... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386596 | High performance storage access environment The present invention provides improved techniques for managing storage resources, such as disk drives, I/O ports, and the like in a network based storage system according to a user position within the network. Embodiments according to the present invention can prov... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383290 | Transaction processing systems and methods utilizing non-disk persistent memory In at least one embodiment, transaction processing systems comprise non-disk persistent memory that is utilized to commit transactions. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383293 | Database backup system using data and user-defined routines replicators for maintaining a copy of database on a secondary server In a database system having a primary server side (10) and a secondary server side (30), a high availability data replicator (26, 46) transfers log entries from the primary side (10) to the secondary side (30) and replays the trans... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383466 | Method and system of previewing a volume revert operation Described is a revert preview mechanism, which gives the user a chance to temporarily remount a storage volume with the contents of a shadow copy, and then evaluate the computer system as if reverted, including allowing full I/O read and write operations to the stor... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380155 | System for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server's Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a ser... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7374078 | Method and system for managing token image replacement A system for managing token image replacement is provided. The system includes a remote server, a personal computer (PC) connected to the remote server, a smartcard that can be read by the PC, and a card image server. Using application logic and rules, the remote se... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376675 | Simulating multi-user activity while maintaining original linear request order for asynchronous transactional events A method of maintaining the original order of a sequence of transactions originating from a source database and being replicated to a target database is provided. A lockable object is associated with each transaction of the sequence of transactions from the source d... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376680 | System and method for cleansing, linking and appending data records of a database A system and method for reading a data record from an input file only once, processing that data record according to one or more reference files, and then writing out the cleansed and updated data record to a target file such that the data record is read and written... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376678 | Database management program and recording medium A database management program capable of restoring a use management book indicating allocation/non-allocation of data to individual unit storage regions, without the need to perform physical initialization at the time of reinitialization. When the database is initia... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373392 | File transfer data setting device In order for the user to set new file transfer data, the image file transfer setting unit 30 acquires authentication data from a file transfer data table and displays a list of connections on the display unit 40. Next, the user uses the input unit 4... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373390 | Disk subsystems and their integrated system An asynchronous remote copy system which can ensure the data renewal order and data integrity of the disk subsystems. The system provides for data mirroring by a main center having a gateway and a remote center having a gateway, and storage systems in each center co... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373362 | Coordinated synchronization A coordinating push and user-initiated synchronization method and system. Initially, changes to a local application data store are detected and records affected by the change are identified. At some point, a record affected by a detected change is pushed to a remote... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373366 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for taking and managing snapshots of a storage volume A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for taking snapshots of a storage volume. According to aspects of one method, each snapshot is represented as a unique sequence number. Every fresh write access to a volume in a new snapshot life... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373364 | System and method for creating a point-in-time restoration of a database file The present invention provides a method for generating a point-in-time restoration of database files and associated log files by utilizing a snapshot feature of the file system storing the files. At regular intervals, snapshots, which produce read-only copies of the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369135 | Memory management system having a forward progress bit A virtual memory system that maintains a list of pages that are required to be resident in a frame buffer to guarantee the eventual forward progress of a graphics application context running on a graphics system composed of multiple clients. Pages that are required ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370222 | External storage and data recovery method for external storage as well as program The data is automatically recovered to a desired arbitrary point in an external storage without imposing a burden on the host computer. An application on a host computer instructs data recovery control processing of a disk control apparatus to set a recovery opportu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370329 | System and method for state saves in a distributed data system A client-server system may include a primary state of session data. One or more application servers may include client states of the session data and may be configured to access the primary state. The session data may include one or more attributes. The distributed ... | 05/06/2008 |
