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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185601 | Sharing information between devices A system configured for facilitating the sharing of information between apparatuses. An apparatus may include one or more applications that, for example, upon configuration and execution, may yield information that may also be stored in the apparatus. At some point ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171102 | Smart access to a dispersed data storage network A method for reading data from a dispersed data storage network that includes a plurality of slice servers. The method begins by accessing a list of slice servers of the plurality of slice servers, wherein each slice server on the list stores at least one data slice... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171101 | Smart access to a dispersed data storage network An improved system for accessing data within a distributed data storage network (“DDSN”) is disclosed. In a system implementing the disclosed invention, traffic is routed to individual slice servers within the DDSN in accordance with objective criteria as well a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8112492 | Shared object stores for a networked computer system A store of interfaced software objects are distributed between a server computer and multiple client computers to support an object oriented application communication environment that provides communication between software applications on each client computer. The ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108482 | Data relaying apparatus, data relaying method, and data relay processing program A data relaying apparatus disposed on the preceding stage of a registry server centrally managing meta-information extracts meta-information from a content retrieval result transmitted from the registry server to a client terminal and retains and correlates the meta... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108380 | Inclusion of metadata in indexed composite document Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching business objects. According to one embodiment, a method of searching one or more business objects can comprise receiving a set of search criteria and identifying attributes of the business object... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103657 | Locating and retrieving data content stored in a compressed digital format A method and apparatus is provided for locating and retrieving specified data content in a database. The data comprises compressed digital audio or video data files associated with the recorded speech. Retrieval of the specified content requires decompression of onl... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8078687 | System and method for data management A data management system for a data storage device includes a management module and a memory module. The management module manages a plurality of nodes of a linked list based on one of a plurality of parameter sets that indicates a location of a data field within ea... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069218 | System, method and computer program product for process migration with planned minimized down-time A system, computer program product and method for a running process migration with planned minimized down-time. The method facilitates fast and efficient process migration by performing background data synchronization prior to actual process migration. The service s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060577 | Method and system for employing user input for file classification and malware identification A method and apparatus for employing user input to classify unknown files whereby when a given unknown/unclassified file is downloaded and/or activated on a given computer system associated with a given user, the given user is asked to provide input regarding the le... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8046424 | Systems and methods for the utilization of metadata for synchronization optimization Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to synchronization utilizing one or more optimizations through the utilization of metadata. For several embodiments of the present invention, one method for optimizing synchronization is to reduce the overhea... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046425 | Distributed adaptive network memory engine Memory demands of large-memory applications continue to remain one step ahead of the improvements in DRAM capacities of commodity systems. Performance of such applications degrades rapidly once the system hits the physical memory limit and starts paging to the local... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032606 | Disk control unit and storage system Provided is a disk controller comprising a front end FC I/F to a host, a back end FC I/F to a magnetic disk, a processor, and a main memory section. The front end I/F and the back end I/F are provided for performing information exchange with a network (connected) de... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019826 | Reliable reception of messages written via RDMA using hashing In one embodiment, a first network system obtains from a second network system, as a result of an RDMA read operation or an RDMA write operation, a message and a hash of the message, contiguous thereto. The first network system generates a computed hash of the obtai... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7970852 | Method for moving operating systems between computer electronic complexes without loss of service A system and method for migrating a client partition between computer electronic complexes (CECs) while maintaining access to a Storage Area Network. An active and inactive world wide port name are generated for a client virtual channel adapter. A query is sent to a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7933967 | Simultaneous sharing of storage drives on blade center A method and system in accordance with the present invention provides a microprocessor on each blade server for providing interfaces at the plurality of blade servers for simultaneous connection with a local or remote drive. The microprocessor can also configure the... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930361 | System and method for management of remotely shared data Systems and methods for reducing latency on a remotely-booted information handling system are disclosed. A method for access and management of remote data may include receiving from a host a standard input-output instruction including a persistent image update (PIU)... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930360 | Secure processing unit systems and methods A hardware Secure Processing Unit (SPU) is described that can perform both security functions and other information appliance functions using the same set of hardware resources. Because the additional hardware required to support security functions is a relatively s... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925712 | Method and apparatus for rendering user accounts portable Improved approaches for enabling user accounts to be portable across different multi-user computer systems are disclosed. A user account created at a multi-user computer can be stored to an external, portable data store, thereby rendering the user account portable. ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917599 | Distributed adaptive network memory engine Memory demands of large-memory applications continue to remain one step ahead of the improvements in DRAM capacities of commodity systems. Performance of such applications degrades rapidly once the system hits the physical memory limit and starts paging to the local... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912915 | Systems and methods for enticing users to access a web site A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a web page. For the story line, the system may receive objects that tell a story according to the story line and successively provide the objects on th... | 03/22/2011 |
| RE42169 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for efficient server response generation using intermediate state caching Disclosed is a system for improving server efficiency by caching intermediate states encountered in generating responses to requests. The results of a mapping from an external name for a resource to an internal name for the resource may be cached as may the response... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7870220 | Methods and apparatus for analyzing VSAN configuration A system identifies at least one VSAN, and analyzes a configuration of the VSAN by applying a policy to the configuration of the VSAN. The system then outputs a result of the policy applied to the VSAN. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856483 | Information management systems with time zone information, including event scheduling processes Information management systems with time zone information, including event scheduling processes are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a computer-implemented scheduling method that can include identifying a difference between a participant tim... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7814051 | Managing watcher information in a distributed server environment A system for managing watcher information in a distributed server environment, including a watcher information database configured to store records, any of the records populated by a watcher identifier, a presentity identifier, a list of unique identifiers of a plur... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809799 | Approach for caching electronic products An approach for caching an electronic product generally involves the use of confirmation data that indicates that an electronic product was successfully provided from a cache to a user. A request to provide an electronic product to a user is received at a cache. In ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797395 | Assignment of data flows to storage systems in a data storage infrastructure for a communication network A data storage infrastructure is disclosed for a communication network that produces a plurality of data flows of network data. The data storage infrastructure comprises a plurality of data storage systems and a storage management system. The data storage systems ar... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797396 | Network attached storage (NAS) server having a plurality of automated media portals According to one embodiment, a system comprises a network attached storage (NAS) server not having a general-purpose user input device. The NAS server comprises local data storage and a plurality of automated media portals each operable for receiving a direct commun... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792917 | Multiple network shared disk servers A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product access data on an information processing system. The information processing system includes a plurality of Network Shared Disk servers and at least one set of Network Shared Disks. Each of... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792918 | Migration of a guest from one server to another Systems, methods and media for migration of a guest from one server to another are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first server, while hosting the guest, receives a signal from the second server that the migration is to occur. The first server presents the memory us... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7765270 | Music player A portable music player downloads a musical composition data from a distribution server. When this musical composition data is played back, a sample musical composition data composing a part of the musical composition data is distributed to a surrounding player by w... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7716300 | Systems and methods to facilitate self regulation of social networks through trading and gift exchange The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates self-regulation of a social network system based at least in part on user behavior, and in particular on good or desirable user behavior. The system and method involve monitoring user behavio... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702743 | Supporting a weak ordering memory model for a virtual physical address space that spans multiple nodes In one embodiment, a virtual NUMA system may be formed from multiple computer systems coupled to a network such as InfiniBand, Ethernet, etc. Each computer includes one or more software modules which present the resources of the computers as a virtual NUMA machine. ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698374 | Storage system with data redundancy between storage volumes Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems of storing data in storage volumes while ensuring data matching between the storage volumes. In one embodiment, a system for storing data comprises a first storage area to store data, a second ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7668928 | System and method for recording and playing back interactive content during a broadcast event A system and method for interactive events relating to broadcast content, whether provided over the television, internet, or other means, provides messages that can be transmitted to different types of user devices, including personal computers, set top boxes, net t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7650388 | Wireless identification protocol with confirmation of successful transmission Systems and methods provide an acknowledgement protocol on completion of data transmission. A coupler board of a wireless identification system interfaces between a host processor of the wireless identification system and a replaceable unit monitor. The coupler boar... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7631052 | Redundant data forwarding storage Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for redundant data forwarding storage. A method includes, in two or more networks of interconnected computer system nodes, receiving a request from a source system in a first network to store data, directin... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627645 | Remotely controlling playback of content on a stored device A system, method, and computer-readable media are disclosed for remotely controlling playback of content stored on a device. The system, method, and computer-readable media can transmit state-based commands from a host unit to the device in order to control playback... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7617292 | Multi-class heterogeneous clients in a clustered filesystem A cluster of computer system nodes connected by a storage area network include two classes of nodes. The first class of nodes can act as clients or servers, while the other nodes can only be clients. The client-only nodes require much less functionality and can be m... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7610349 | Photo-serving communication protocols and methodology for providing disparate host devices with FTP-like access to digital images residing on a digital camera device A methodology for providing FTP-like server capability to a portable, intermittently-connected device, such as a digital camera device, is described. Using XML syntax, a photo-serving protocols suite supporting FTP-like photo-serving capability is incorporated into ... | 10/27/2009 |
