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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356657 | System and method for controlling storage devices The present invention is constituted so as to enable more effective backup and restoration than in the prior art. Each time a write request is issued from an application 47, a PVOL is updated by writing the data contained in the issued write request to... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356660 | Storage device A storage device is provided with a file I/O interface control device and a plurality of disk pools. The file I/O interface control device sets one of a plurality of storage hierarchies defining storage classes, respectively, for each of LUs within the disk pools, t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356493 | Apparatus and method for passing information between catalogs in a computer operating system An apparatus and method are disclosed for passing data between catalogs in a computer operating system. The apparatus includes an identifying module, a receiving module, a definition module, and an updating module. The identifying module identifies a first catalog h... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356496 | System and method for synchronizing ledger accounts by company group A system and method for keeping ledger accounts in synchronization between a back-end procurement system and a front-end requisition and catalog system. An extract utility extracts a file of general ledger (G/L) accounts, including account code, description, and com... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356701 | Data repository and method for promoting network storage of data In general, the invention features methods by which more than one client program connected to a network stores the same data item on a storage device of a data repository connected to the network. In one aspect, the method comprises encrypting the data item using a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356816 | Method and apparatus for multiplatform migration A method and system for migrating a computing environment from a source computing platform to a destination computing platform. A script defines at least one software system or application stored on the source computing platform. The script is parsed by a scripting ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356532 | Systems and methods for maintaining transactional persistence Messages between trading partners can be processed persistently using a persistence framework, which can include a transaction manager, a locking manager, and a logging mechanism. A transaction manager can initiate a transaction for a request, and can enlist and mod... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356249 | Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing data, which enable reading of data recorded even when the apparatus stops due to a power failure The hard disc is provided with two areas for storing file system management information and content management information. The disc recorder records double file system management information and content management information onto the hard disc. Further, informatio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356843 | Security incident identification and prioritization Techniques are disclosed for protecting a computer environment. The technique comprises providing an index; comparing a first event with the index; determining whether the first event is unusual; and determining whether a security incident associated with the first ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356452 | System and method for simulating performance of one or more data storage systems This invention is a system and method for simulating performance of one or more data storage systems. This invention may be used in many useful ways including for configuring or modeling a data storage environment, problem isolation, and general design. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356546 | System and method for object persistence in a database store A new persistence format for storing objects of a user defined type in a database store enables information about the structure of the type to be communicated to the store. This information enables a number of store optimizations, including direct structural access ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356581 | Storage network switch The present invention provides a storage network switch suitable for effective load balancing of a plurality of disk storage systems along with the mitigated burden of the host computer. The storage network switch for connecting a plurality of host computers to a pl... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356658 | Snapshot system To obtain a volume image of a given generation. A storage system of this invention includes a disk device in which an original volume is provided to read/write data from a host, a copy volume is provided to store a copy of the original volume of a predetermined timi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352484 | Printing system and management method therefor A computer transmits a command to change the operation of a print command to a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus changes the operation of the print command and records information (print record) associated with printing on a storage unit in accordance with ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353242 | File server for long term data archive A NAS system including a NAS controller which processes file level input/output requests and controls the NAS system, and a storage apparatus having a controller which controls a storage device upon which plural volumes for storing data are represented. In the inven... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353248 | Application server and method to perform hierarchical configurable data validation Clients using standard software protocols may access a validation application server for validation service on data via a number of methods including Internet applications, a Java RMI server, a CORBA gateway server and graphical screen interphase applications. The v... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353306 | Storage controller redundancy using bi-directional reflective memory channel A bi-directional reflective memory channel between a pair of storage controllers is used to maintain a mirrored copy of each storage controller's native buffer contents within the buffer of the other storage controller. To maintain such mirrored copies, buffer write... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353351 | System and method for managing data associated with copying and recovery procedures in a data storage environment This invention is a system and method related to copying and/or restoring data in a data storage environment and includes program logic. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353241 | Method, medium and system for recovering data using a timeline-based computing environment The present description discloses a technique for recovering data using a timeline-based computing environment. Data items of the application are periodically saved for recovery such that the saved data items can be used to recover the application at a point in time... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353335 | Storage control method for database recovery in logless mode The present invention is constituted so as to enable the recovery of a database even when a log comprising a DB update history is not created. When executing a transaction in the logless mode, a logless-start log is created and written to a primary log VOL 55... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353352 | Backup technique for recording devices employing different storage forms One aspect of the invention is a backup system that collectively performs the backup of data in a block form stored by a block recording device, and the back of data in a file form stored by a file recording device. According to the present invention, a backup syste... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353355 | System and method for rapid restoration of server from backup A server is restored by creating an image of a local drive of a server; replacing a driver in the boot up procedure of the server, the replacement driver redirecting disk drive access requests from the local drive to the image; on-demand copying portions of the oper... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353354 | Application-based commit for local storage subsystems and remote storage subsystems A system to protect data including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus. The memory is operable to perform operations to protect stored data. The operations include receiving a write req... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353509 | Method and system for managing software installs in a distributed computer network A method of and system for managing installs to a set of one or more field machines in a distributed network environment. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes at least one change coordinator server that includes a database with data identifying a curre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349940 | Communication protocol for data exchange via shared files A system and associated method of exchanging data between a first and second computer application of a computer system. Data originating from the first computer application is written to a first computer application data file. A first computer application send file ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349942 | Storage medium having a manageable file directory structure A file-mapping method and system can better manage the number of items (i.e., files, subdirectories, or a combination of them) within any single directory within a storage medium. The method and system can be used to limit the number of items within the directory, d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349958 | Method for improving performance in a computer storage system by regulating resource requests from clients The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and program storage device for providing non-blocking, minimum threaded two-way messaging. A Performance Monitor Daemon provides one non-blocked thread pair per processor to support a large number of connections. T... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349908 | Method for specifying a dynamic construct in a storage management system A dynamic construct is associated with one or more operational parameters of one or more components of a storage management system, wherein a pointer to the construct is retained in metadata for the storage management system, the values of the construct are stored i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350206 | Method to reduce provisioning time in shared storage systems by preemptive copying of images A method and device for provisioning another device with an application. The golden image of the application, representing a source copy of the application, is stored at a first storage location in a central storage device. A copy of the golden image is generated pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349961 | Detecting configuration inconsistency in storage networks The present invention provides techniques for managing configurations within centralized storage management systems. Specific embodiments provide users such as IT managers the capability to check configurations of SAN devices in a system and detect any inconsistenci... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349918 | Method and system for searching binary files In the past, it has not been possible to perform searches within documents stored in a proprietary, binary format, such as Microsoft Word documents and Adobe Acrobat documents. The present invention solves the problem by storing the binary file as a field in a recor... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349910 | Method for inserting records into a database For a data processing system having memory for storing a database, a method, a system and a computer program product for directing the data processing system to process a record to be inserted into the database is disclosed. The database includes a plurality of base... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349915 | Persistent archives A persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of a logical structure for the collection and a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of the data objects. The archive is... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350042 | Method of optimizing the space and improving the write performance of volumes with multiple virtual copies Disclosed is a method and apparatus for optimizing memory space and improving the write performance in a data processing system having a data volume with multiple virtual copies thereof. In one embodiment of the method, a first virtual copy of a primary data volume ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349930 | Emulated backup tape drive using data compression A back up storage device (20) that backs up non-compressed data during a backup window period and then later after the backup window period is over and the device (20) is idle, it retrieves, compresses and then re-stores the data to reclaim space on th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349913 | Storage platform for organizing, searching, and sharing data Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a storage platform comprising a database engine, a data store, an application programming interface. The data store is implemented on the database engine for storing data therein, and the data store implem... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346633 | System providing methodology for replication subscription resolution A system providing methodology for replication subscription resolution. In one embodiment, for example, a system of the present invention for determining subscribers to which a published item of data should be replicated comprises: an interface module for receiving ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346634 | Application configuration change log Systems and methods are provided for undoing, redoing or rolling back a configuration setting change for an application. Application configuration information related to the setting change can be received and stored by a log, wherein a history of the configuration s... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346636 | Method and apparatus for managing information related to storage activities of data storage systems Methods and apparatus for managing information related to backup storage activities of data storage systems. In a computer system having one or more independent backup data storage systems coupled to each other and each serving one or more clients, a user may obtain... | 03/18/2008 |
