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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7680844 | Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preserving a virtual file system. Data for a virtual file system is received. The data include file handle information, vnode information, and gnode information. The data is saved to a st... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680841 | Determining whether data written to source storage locations according to a write order is copied to corresponding target storage locations in the write order Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining whether data written to source storage locations according to a write order is copied to corresponding target storage locations in the write order. Values are written to indicated source stora... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680839 | System and method for resynchronizing mirrored volumes System and method for resynchronizing mirrored volumes in a storage system. According to one embodiment, a system may include a first volume located at a primary site and associated with a first storage management device, and a second volume located at a secondary s... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680842 | 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 |
| 7680845 | Contents delivery system and network server A contents delivery system including a network player and plural network servers. When the network player transmits a contents acquisition requirement to one of the network servers, the network server detects a CPU load, and when the CPU load is judged to exceed a C... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680843 | Method and system to offload archiving process to a secondary system Procedures and systems may be used for archiving data from a secondary data set that is a stable copy of a primary data set. In one implementation, the secondary data set is a continuous data protection (CDP) copy of the primary data set. One implementation of a met... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680840 | Image processing system and method of processing image An image processing system and a method of the same conveniently transmit meta data without using an additional transmission apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a meta data extraction unit extracting meta data, a markup language conversion unit conver... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676510 | Space reservation monitoring in a fractionally reserved data storage system A mechanism by which a server system executing a host application monitors utilization of a fractionally reserved space on a volume storing application data. The server system executes space reservation policies to ensure that the host application is not halted due ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676507 | Methods and systems for searching and associating information resources such as web pages A method manages information resources in a computer system. The method includes receiving user information from an input device. The user information is representative of a declaration that a second resource accessible by the system should be associated with a firs... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676508 | Method and system for recording and replaying input-output requests issued by a user-mode program I/O request data for user-mode programs is recorded into a log, which later allows the I/O requests to be replayed. By substantially exact replay, tests are performed with different versions/combinations of kernel components using the same I/Os as when recorded. A u... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676509 | Methods and apparatus for modifying a backup data stream including a set of validation bytes for each data block to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup application Methods and apparatus for modifying a data stream of backup data to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup method are disclosed. When the data stream is received, at least a portion of the data stream is parsed into a plurality of data blocks and a p... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672979 | Backup and restore techniques using inconsistent state indicators A method for backup and restore using inconsistent state indicators comprises identifying, from among a plurality of data objects to be backed up, one or more data objects that are in an inconsistent state, and storing inconsistent state indicators (such as modified... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672981 | Object classification and indexing of very large name spaces using grid technology For migration or de-duplication of a file system having a large number of files, a utility program traverses the file system to create a log of file-specific information about the file system. For identification of duplicates, the utility program produces a signatur... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672980 | System, apparatus and method for reading data A data read apparatus which, when reading data in a data region sequentially, consults information pieces indicative of positions of information pieces concerning files to identify a position of an information piece concerning a file corresponding to a data piece at... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668876 | Snapshot-based replication infrastructure for efficient logging with minimal performance effect A method, system, computer system, and computer program product to provide an infrastructure for replicating data across multiple nodes in a network. Changes to data are written to each of a set of mirrored copies of a log on one node. When a storage area containing... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668877 | System and methods for defining a canonical query expression A system and method for providing a canonical query expression employable by a plurality of application tasks which may be invoked by a SAN management application avoids successive regeneration of extensive queries Each of the application tasks employs the canonical... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668879 | Database system configured for automatic failover with no data loss Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer for preventing divergence among the primary and standby database systems while increasing the availability of the primary database sys... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668880 | Offsite computer file backup system providing rapid recovery and method thereof A computer file backup system and method are provided. An onsite backup device is in communication with the primary device and includes a first backup copy of the files. The primary device includes a first instance of file modification detection software. The onsite... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668878 | Replicating data between heterogeneous data systems A method and apparatus for replicating data between heterogeneous databases is provided. Data is replicated between two heterogeneous databases with the use of a volatile storage queue, enabling the rapid replication of data across databases provided by different ve... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664793 | Transforming unrelated data volumes into related data volumes Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transforming unrelated data volumes into related data volumes. The present invention is employed after creation of first and second unrelated data volumes. In one embodiment, the second data volume is refreshed to the data co... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664794 | Content-based storage management A system and method for data management according to the content of the data. The present invention enables data to be stored in one of a plurality of different storage options according to at least one characteristic of the data, in which the at least one character... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664795 | Apparatus and method for database migration Systems and methods consistent with concepts of the present embodiment of the inventive concept provide mechanisms for database migration from one database (source database platform) platform to another (target database platform). The target and source databases can... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664797 | Method and apparatus for using statistical process control within a storage management system A method and apparatus for using a statistical process control to establish alarm criteria for backup processes in a storage management system. The method and apparatus accumulates sample parameters for a plurality of backup runs to build a statistical model of the ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664796 | Electronic labeling for offline management of storage devices A system and method using hardware and software components enable a storage module to maintain information about an associated storage device and its content such that the information is accessible when the storage device is offline or in a low power configuration. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660836 | Controlling incremental backups using opaque object attributes Provided are techniques for determining whether content of an object has changed. Under control of a backup system, opaque object attributes and a data identifier are received, wherein the data identifier is generated based on one or more relevant object attributes ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657580 | System and method providing virtual applications architecture A virtual applications architecture is provided according to the present invention. The architecture includes a topology manager for managing applications across a plurality of members, and a virtual applications manager for defining a plurality of resources compris... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657581 | Metadata management for fixed content distributed data storage An archival storage cluster of preferably symmetric nodes includes a metadata management system that organizes and provides access to given metadata, preferably in the form of metadata objects. Each metadata object may have a unique name, and metadata objects are or... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657579 | Traversing data in a repeatable manner Traversing hierarchical data is disclosed. A first list of items in a first level of the data is received and sorted in an order. The data of the first level is processed in the order of the sorted first list. If any other level of data is encountered during process... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657582 | Using recent activity information to select backup versions of storage objects for restoration A system for using recent activity information to select backup versions of storage objects for restoration comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor, where the memory stores program instructions computer-executable by the processor to implement a ba... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657583 | Calculating recovery time of an application system Mechanisms are provided for calculating a recovery time (tr) of an application system in a computer system. The mechanisms tune the computer system dynamically. A recovery time (tr) is calculated and controlled within flexible predefined time s... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657578 | System and method for volume replication in a storage environment employing distributed block virtualization A system for volume replication in a distributed block virtualization environment includes a first and a second set of one or more physical block devices, a first and a second volume server, one or more volume clients, and a replication manager. The first volume ser... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653669 | Snapshots of file systems in data storage systems The present invention relates to methods and systems of snapshot management of a file system in a data storage system. To represent the snapshots, the invention maintains pointers to the root block pointer of each snapshot. When the active file system is modified, t... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653666 | Method and computer system for identifying objects for archiving Methods and computer systems are provided for identifying objects for archiving out of a plurality of objects. A first computer system supplies a plurality of objects for archiving. Each object may have an object type and at least one sub-object. Further, an assignm... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653667 | Methods and systems for data moving using locks Methods, computer readable medium and systems are provided for moving data objects from a first storage location to a second storage location. One or more data objects may be selected having an identifier from a first storage location. The ID may be stored in at lea... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653668 | Fault tolerant multi-stage data replication with relaxed coherency guarantees A system for fault tolerant multi-stage data replication with relaxed coherency comprises one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors, where the memory stores program instructions executable by the processors to implement a data replication service. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647364 | Onsite backup of internet-based data in a requested format A system for onsite backup of internet-based data is provided. The system includes a central computer, a client computer, a communications link between the central computer and the Internet, and a communications link between the client computer and the Internet. The... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644112 | Apparatus, system, and method for initializing a synchronized remote database An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for initializing a synchronized remote database. A creation module creates a first backup table of a backup database from a schema for a primary table of a primary database. A read module reads each row from the primary... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644113 | Systems and methods for backing up data files The invention provides systems and methods for continuous back up of data stored on a computer network. To this end the systems of the invention include a synchronization process that replicates selected source data files data stored on the network and to create a c... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640279 | Apparatus and method for file-level replication between two or more non-symmetric storage sites An apparatus and method to replicate one or more files between non-symmetric storage systems are disclosed. The method supplies a first storage system comprising a first configuration, a first volume, a first file system, and a first replication appliance comprising... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7640280 | System for automatically shadowing data and file directory structures that are recorded on a computer memory The Data Shadowing System comprises a memory module that is connected to the monitored computer system via an existing input/output port to store the shadowed data. The memory module includes a memory device for data storage as well as software, including a control ... | 12/29/2009 |