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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7174326 | Database system providing methodology for prepared statement cloning A method for cloning of prepared statements for execution against a database is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method for executing a database statement comprises steps of: preparing at least one template for execution of a statement against a database... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174328 | Selective path signatures for query processing over a hierarchical tagged data structure A method of utilizing one or more hints for query processing over a hierarchical tagged data structure having a plurality of nodes in a computing system having memory, the hint being positive if there is a tag accessible in top-down traversal from a child node, and ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174354 | System and method for garbage collection in a computer system, which uses reinforcement learning to adjust the allocation of memory space, calculate a reward, and use the reward to determine further actions to be taken on the memory space A system and method for use with a virtual machine, including an adaptive, automated memory management process that takes decisions regarding which garbage collector technique should be used, based on information extracted from the currently active applications. Rei... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174433 | System and method for dynamically sharing media in a computer network A computerized method for sharing removable storage media in a network, the method comprising associating, in an index entry, a first piece of removable storage media in a first storage device with at least a first storage policy copy and a second storage policy cop... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171674 | Method and apparatus for “just-in-time” dynamic loading and unloading of computer software libraries A method and system for providing “just-in-time” dynamic loading and unloading of libraries. Library code is loaded into memory just prior to the actual execution of a routine in that library and is unloaded from memory after the execution of the library routine... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171527 | Method and apparatus for keeping track of memory usage for tasks in a shared heap One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates keeping track of memory usage of tasks in a shared heap without performing a full garbage-collection operation. The system operates by determining a memory usage by each task in a young gener... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168619 | Structuring of temporary systems A method for structuring a temporary system includes receiving information obtained by interrogating a tag on an article and establishing a relationship between the article and one or more other articles in the temporary system based at least in part upon the inform... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171453 | Virtual private volume method and system The present invention provides techniques for managing access to storage resources. In specific embodiments, storage devices provide storage resources to users using a system of virtual addresses and virtual volume identifiers. In select specific embodiments, a stor... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167880 | Method and apparatus for avoiding journal overflow on backup and recovery system using storage based journaling A method and apparatus which provide solutions for avoiding journal overflow in after and before journal methods of a backup and recovery system used with a storage system. The after journal method solutions, which are conducted when the amount of free space reaches... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167881 | Method for heap memory management and computer system using the same method There are provided a heap memory management method that not only improves processing performance of an application program but also reduces a program development cost and a computer system using the same method. A live object copy process in minor collection of gene... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167425 | Dubbing apparatus A dubbing apparatus to dub data managed per program like audio data such as a piece of music is provided. In the dubbing apparatus, for passing output data read from a CD through a CD drive for compression of the data and transferring the compressed data for recordi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165255 | Method and apparatus for managing surplus memory in multitasking system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for managing surplus memory in a multitasking system. The system operates by reserving a guaranteed amount of memory from a heap for a task. Heap memory not reserved for a task is surplus memory. When the sys... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165188 | System and method for managing long-running process carried out upon a plurality of disks A method for managing a long-running process carried out upon a plurality of disks is disclosed. A registry is established, the registry having a plurality of entries, each entry corresponding to one of the plurality of disks, each entry having a value indicative of... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162401 | Monitoring of resources that are being modeled by simulation or emulation Whenever a resource being modeled is accessed, an indication about the access is stored in a number of memory locations of a corresponding number of applications that are interested in monitoring the resource. The memory locations (also called “monitoring memory l... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162586 | Synchronizing stack storage A system comprises a main stack, a local data stack and plurality of flags. The main stack comprises a plurality of entries and is located outside a processor's core. The local data stack is coupled to the main stack and is located internal to the processor's core. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162605 | Method and system for obtaining memory usage information for a heap when a peak live count is updated A method and system for determining the memory utilization of a heap are provided. With the method and system, object allocations and optionally, possible memory freeing events are used to initiate a mark-and-count operation. The mark-and-count operation marks the l... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158995 | Method for managing pointers to external objects in a run-time environment A method and software for managing pointers to external objects in a run-time environment are described in which eager external references are provided that allow session memory objects to point directly to certain call memory objects with machine pointers. The eage... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155583 | Memory management system and method for a mobile device In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for managing memory on a mobile device. A maximum amount of available data storage memory may be allocated for storing data for each of a plurality of software applications loaded on... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154628 | Job secure overwrite failure notification An apparatus and method for erasing jobs from a marking device's non-volatile memory includes a monitor and notification system to detect and make a user aware of failure of the erasure. The notification system can offer alternate methods of erasure as part of the n... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155467 | Adaptive type-partitioned garbage collection A collector for collecting non-referenced objects stored in a heap by a program while the program is executing in a computer system is presented. A sample and partition routine in the collector partitions the heap into cold space and hot space. The sample and partit... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155465 | Method and apparatus for automatically archiving a file system In a digital data processing system having an on-line file system component, a method and apparatus for archiving the contents of a selected client volume stored on the file system. The archiving is performed automatically, beginning with an initial duplication of t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155464 | Recovering and checking large file systems in an object-based data storage system In a file system recovery (FSRC) process, an FSRC module performs dynamic checks on file system objects to verify parent-child relationships among various objects in the system. The FSRC module stores a list of objects in the system and relevant object-related infor... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155509 | System and method for reliably purging a fault server Improvements to existing trap-generated message memory purge procedures and processes are shown and described. The improvements may be implemented in a telecommunications system having a plurality of managed elements, each of the managed elements potentially generat... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152147 | Storage control system and storage control method A computer system comprises a primary volume 22P having a plurality of storage blocks P, and a differential volume 22D having a plurality of storage blocks D. Differential data corresponding to one among the plurality of storage blocks P is stored in a... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152144 | Centralized storage management method A storage system includes plural storage apparatuses storing data, and a storage controller which transmits and receives data between an external computer and the plural storage apparatuses, and further controls the plural storage apparatuses. Logical devices each r... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149865 | Memory allocation using mask-bit pattern to encode metadata within memory address A method of allocating memory in a data processing system 10 and a memory allocation mechanism 54 are provided. Memory is allocated by the memory allocation mechanism in response to a memory allocation request 56 from a process 50 running... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149762 | Handling futile collections in the train algorithm through selective extension of the collection set In incremental garbage collectors based on the Train algorithm a futile condition may exist where the collector never finishes collecting an old train. The present invention provides an expanded collection set of a younger car with an object referenced from another ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149749 | Method of inserting and deleting leaves in tree table structures A technique is provided to either insert or delete a leaf in a Patricia tree having a direct table and a plurality of PSCB's which decode portions of the pattern of a leaf in the tree without shutting down the functioning of the tree. A leaf having a pattern is iden... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149870 | Assigning sections within a memory heap for efficient garbage collection of large objects A method, system, and program for assigning sections within a memory heap for efficient garbage collection of large objects are provided. A first portion of a memory heap is distributed among a first number of sections from among multiple sections, wherein the first... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149866 | Free item distribution among multiple free lists during garbage collection for more efficient object allocation A method, system, and program for improving free item distribution among multiple free lists during garbage collection for more efficient object allocation are provided. A garbage collector predicts future allocation requirements and then distributes free items to m... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146377 | Storage system having partitioned migratable metadata According to one embodiment, a metadata management system (MDS) may include partitioned migratable metadata. Metadata may be stored in multiple metadata partitions (102-0 to 102-11). Each metadata partition may be assigned to a particular... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146390 | Staging the processing of remembered-set entries as part of collection based on the train algorithm A garbage collector that reclaims memory space no longer needed by a mutator treats a generation of a dynamically allocated heap as being divided into “car” sections. For each car section, the collector maintains a remembered-set structure in which it keeps a re... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143077 | Method and system for implementing statistical functions in a telephone switching system The invention concerns a method and a system for real-time addition of statistics definitions and for achieving real-time reporting in a telephone switching system, comprising a database containing information of essential importance to the telephone switching syste... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143124 | Detection of dead regions during incremental collection A garbage collector employs the train algorithm to collect a heap generation incrementally, collecting “car sections” in a collection order. As it updates the “remembered sets” by which it keeps track of where references to objects in respective car sections... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143262 | Method, apparatus and program for allocating storage area to virtual volume In a system comprising host computers and storage devices, storage regions maintained by storage devices are provided as virtualized volumes to the host computers by a virtualization function. In the case of allocating a vacant storage region from storage regions of... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143281 | Method and apparatus for automatically changing kernel tuning parameters A method for operating a computing apparatus includes specifying proposed changes to a plurality of tunable parameters of tunable kernel modules determining whether application of the changes would violate a set of constraints; and effectuating either none or all of... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140027 | Method and system to reinitialize objects without losing a reference connection The present invention is a method and system that enables reference processes that have access to a long running object to maintain the current access to this object while this object performs a re-initialization operation in order to refresh data contained in the o... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139784 | Dead timestamp identification and elimination The performance of an application is improved by identifying and eliminating items with dead time-stamps and eliminating work on items with irrelevant time-stamps. An algorithm executing in each node of a task graph computes and propagates guarantees which are used ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136878 | Method, apparatus, and program for updating a java archive to encode a file system delta A mechanism is provided for extending a Java archive file to include additional information that describes the contents of the archive as update information. A program is provided for determining differences between an initial file system tree and a final file syste... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136887 | Method and mechanism for finding references in a card in time linear in the size of the card in a garbage-collected heap A garbage collector divides the garbage-collected heap into “cards.” It maintains a table containing a card-object table entry for each card. A card's entry contains information from which the collector can determine where any references in the card are located ... | 11/14/2006 |
