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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176142 | Shared JAVA jar files Techniques are disclosed for sharing programmatic modules among isolated virtual machines. A master JVM process loads data from a programmatic module, storing certain elements of that data into its private memory region, and storing other elements of that data into ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8069217 | System and method for providing access to a shared system image Systems and methods for providing data integrity for stored data are disclosed. A method for providing access to a remote shared image may include receiving from a first provisioning server a request to create a write space for a client communicatively coupled to th... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055723 | Virtual array site configuration A method, system, and computer program product of configuring a virtual array site on a remote storage server is provided. The virtual array site provides on-demand storage capacity to a local storage server of a customer. The method includes creating a virtual arra... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8028035 | Shared resource support for internet protocols Creating a unique identification for each stack in partitions of a host data computer such that a plurality of partitions may share a single adapter card during an Input/Output operation wherein the adapter card is exchanging data between the host and a Local Area N... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024418 | Reserve release proxy A method, system, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for finding a logical unit data structure associated with a command and a logical unit of a device, selecting a command table based on the logical unit data structure and a host that issued the command, indexing ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015258 | Method and apparatus for accessing variable sized blocks of data A method and apparatus are provided for accessing data. The method includes defining a first portion of a memory for receiving data and providing a memory request to transfer data from a source to the first portion of the memory defined to receive the data. The meth... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7991850 | Resilient system partition for personal internet communicator The present invention provides a method and apparatus to restore the operating system of a personal internet communicator (PIC) to a “known good” operational state in the event of a catastrophic failure. In an embodiment of the invention, the hard drive of the p... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984108 | Computer system para-virtualization using a hypervisor that is implemented in a partition of the host system Embodiments of the present invention provide a virtualization infrastructure that allows multiple guest operating systems to run and communicate amongst each other within a host hardware partition. The host system is divided into distinct logical/virtual partitions ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984109 | System and method for storing and accessing data files at wireless devices A method of providing access to data files within a wireless device is provided and includes detecting a selection of a first user interface component. The first user interface component can be linked to a private portion of the wireless device. Further, the method ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7921087 | Method for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921132 | System for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921131 | Method using a hierarchy of servers for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917598 | System and method for administering a filer having a plurality of virtual filers A method and apparatus for operating a computer data storage system is disclosed. A computer data storage system is administered by a physical server administrator. The physical server administrator administers the computer data storage system with a full administra... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7895287 | Clustered storage system with external storage systems A data storage system comprises a first platform storage system including a first network interface to communicate with a host computer, a first storage unit to provide storage volumes, a first storage controller to control the first storage unit, and a first memory... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7873701 | Network on chip with partitions A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium is provided. Embodiments of the design structure include a network on chip (‘NOC’), the NOC comprising: integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network inter... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7818390 | Method for transferring data between terminal apparatuses in a transparent computation system A method for transferring data between terminal apparatuses in a network at least comprising a server, a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus, wherein the server has a storage device at least comprising a first and a second disk images; the metho... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7734714 | Spatial Sieve Tree A method, apparatus, and system is described for creating a spatial sieve tree which stores, manages, and manipulates multidimensional data by partitioning the bounds of the nodes of the tree, creating child nodes which each have defined bounds associated with a par... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730153 | Efficient use of NVRAM during takeover in a node cluster A server storage system operating in a cluster mode, and a method for operating the server system that provides additional memory for use by a non-failed server to store log records while taking over the operations of a failed server. ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725558 | Distributive access controller A device for securely controlling communications among or within computers, computer systems, or computer networks, comprising: (a) a primary access port to which an “owner” computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network is connectable to acces... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725559 | Virtual data center that allocates and manages system resources across multiple nodes A virtualization infrastructure that allows multiple guest partitions to run within a host hardware partition. The host system is divided into distinct logical or virtual partitions and special infrastructure partitions are implemented to control resource management... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7698373 | Method, processing unit and data processing system for microprocessor communication in a multi-processor system A processor communication register (PCR) contained in each processor within a multiprocessor system provides enhanced processor communication. Each PCR stores identical processor communication information that is useful in pipelined or parallel multi-processing. Eac... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7685251 | Method and apparatus for management of virtualized process collections A management software approach to automatic and dynamic migration of applications running within virtualized process collections while retaining state during the migration operation. Performance metrics are received for a virtualized process collection running in a ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7660867 | Virtual computer system and virtual computer migration control method A migration source virtual server and a migration destination virtual server respectively include a volume information management unit for associating and managing volume identifying information for identifying the logical volumes and the logical volumes managed by ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7624157 | Ethernet controller with excess on-board flash for microcontroller interface A single chip network controller for interfacing between a physical network and a processing system on the media side of the network controller. The network controller includes a physical layer for receiving data for transmission to the network and encoding the rece... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7565406 | Last thread lock management for multi-threaded process and distributed data systems A distributed data system may include nodes hosting at least one multi-threaded process operable to access portions of distributed data. A lock mechanism may grant locks to multi-threaded processes for portions of the distributed data. Only a process holding a lock ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7552189 | System and method for using virtual directories to service URL requests URL requests in application servers The invention provides a system and method for providing virtual directories for servlets, particularly for use by many different Web applications that share common files and resources, and that are intended for providing those resources to large numbers of users. V... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7509392 | Creating and removing application server partitions in a server cluster based on client request contexts A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine an application server partition based on the context of a request from a client, and send the request to the application server partition if the application server partition exi... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7483956 | E-mail to physical mail converter A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment convert e-mail into physical mail. In various embodiments, if a recipient identifier in the e-mail is an e-mail address, the recipient identifier is retained. But, if the recipient identifi... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7478139 | Shared resource support for internet protocol A method and apparatus for creating a unique identification for each stack in partitions of a host data computer such that a plurality of partitions may share a single adapter card during an Input/Output operation wherein the adapter card is exchanging data between ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7444420 | Apparatus and method for mirroring and restoring data An apparatus and method for mirroring data is provided wherein integrity of data on a mirror device is maintained during and after a restore process of data to a standard volume. Because integrity of the mirror is maintained, data from the mirror may be used to perf... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441009 | Computer system and storage virtualizer The computer system is capable of setting centralized modules so as to make most of access requests to a virtual storage unit correspond to physical storage units assigned to a centralized module, which receives the requests. The computer system comprises a storage ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441017 | System and method for router virtual networking A host router is logically partitioned into virtual router domains that manage independent processes and routing application copies but share a common operating system. Each v-net manages an independent set of sockets and host router interfaces, each associated with... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437424 | Storage system In order to allow a host computer to specify an operable logical unit (LU), a storage system responds with extended LU information, including at least connection portion numbers, target IDs and logical unit numbers according to an inquiry made from the host computer... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434242 | Multiple content supplier video asset scheduling An apparatus and method for allocating management functions within an interactive information distribution system between service providers and content providers whereby content providers lease respective portions of available resources within the service provider a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428581 | Architecture for providing block-level storage access over a computer network A network-based storage system comprises one or more block-level storage servers that connect to, and provide disk storage for, one or more host computers (“hosts”) over logical network connections (preferably TCP/IP sockets). In one embodiment, each host can ma... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415506 | Storage virtualization and storage management to provide higher level storage services In a storage server on a storage area network, a media unit manager manages disk space in a manner transparent to the host computers. The media unit manager uses media units corresponding to the physical storage devices on the storage area network to build higher-le... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412492 | Proportional share resource allocation with reduction of unproductive resource consumption Units of a resource are allocated among a plurality of clients by a system-level management module using a proportional share resource allocation scheme. For each client, a metric is evaluated that is a function both of a non-usage-based, client-specific factor and ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409456 | Method and system for enhancing live stream delivery quality using prebursting A method to “accelerate” the delivery of a portion of a data stream across nodes of a stream transport network. According to the invention, a portion of a live stream is forwarded from a first node to a second node in a transport network at a high bitrate as com... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405839 | Printing apparatus printer driver, and buffer management method In a printing apparatus which performs printing by scanning a printhead having printing elements arrayed in a predetermined direction on a printing medium in a direction crossing to the array direction on the basis of information transmitted from a host apparatus, s... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403976 | Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in a shared memory switch A switch includes a reserved pool of buffers in a shared memory. The reserved pool of buffers is reserved for exclusive use by an egress port. The switch includes pool select logic which selects a free buffer from the reserved pool for storing data received from an ... | 07/22/2008 |
