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| 8190783 | Assigning input devices to specific sessions Architecture that allows programmatic association of devices to sessions and redirects input to the desired session. When the solution is active, input from the devices is not realized by the standard operating system input stack, thereby allowing even reserved key ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190784 | In-band transport mechanism for carrying communications among functional components of a storage I/O interface stack An in-band protocol transport carries command-response protocol communications between first and second functional components of a storage input/output (I/O) interface stack, for example to control encryption-related processing of storage I/O commands. A storage rea... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190782 | Image display system and image display apparatus An image display apparatus that displays an image in accordance with image data supplied from an image supplying apparatus, the image display apparatus including: a function module that processes input data; a plurality of disk images each including a function progr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185667 | Storage system comprising power saving function A storage system constituted such that power saving to an administrator-desired storage device can be performed from a management device. That is, the storage system comprises a power-saving indication receiving section for receiving from a management console a powe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180927 | Transaction control arrangement for device management system The invention relates to a method for arranging transaction control in a device management system. A required transaction control operation is defined in a managing device for arranging transaction control of a management task for a managed device. At least one devi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180928 | Method and system for supporting read operations with CRC for iSCSI and iSCSI chimney Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing SCSI read operations with a CRC via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI read command from an initiator. Data may be fetched from a buffer ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176209 | Data communication system A data communication system is provided. The data communication system includes a main processor, and at least one sub-processor or at least one peripheral device connected with the main processor according to a serial peripheral interface (SPI) method and performin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171178 | Scaling of small computer system interface input output (SCSI I/O) referrals A command is issued to a first data storage system for addressing a set of data and at least one of a first referral response including a referral to at least a second data storage system or at least a first subset of the set of data and the first referral response ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171177 | Enhancements to data-driven media management within an electronic device A centralized resource manager manages the routing of audio or visual information within a device, including a handheld device such as a smartphone. The resource manager evaluates data-driven policies to determine how to route audio or visual information to or from ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166209 | Computer system provided with hypervisor A hypervisor acquires an I/O command that has been issued from a virtual computer. The hypervisor judges whether or not a target of an I/O that complies with the I/O command is an unassigned port associated device that is a device associated with an I/O port that is... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166208 | Method and system for XML data transfer transactional coalescing A system, method, and computer readable medium. A method includes setting a maximum translation delay. The method includes, while a current delay is less than the maximum transfer delay, repeatedly performing the steps of searching for an additional transfer having ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166206 | Cancel instruction and command for determining the state of an I/O operation The state of an input/output (I/O) operation is determined in an I/O processing system. A command is received from an I/O operating system at a channel subsystem for initiating the I/O operation, a time period is for completion of the I/O operation, and the command ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166207 | Querying a device for information In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving in a processor complex a first write request from a peripheral device, obtaining information of the processor complex responsive to the first write request, and transmitting a second write requ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156252 | Apparatus and method for block-based data striping to solid-state memory modules with optional data format protocol translation In various embodiments, options for data striping to FLASH memory are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an SATA to ATA bridge, an ATA to USB bridge coupled to the SATA to ATA bridge, and a USB interface coupled to the ATA ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151007 | Information processing program and information processing apparatus A computer of an information processing apparatus repeatedly accepts an operation to designate at least one of a plurality of command elements making up of a command, executes at least any one of a first memory writing processing to write a first command element hav... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145796 | Printing control commands using native printer code An image processing system includes: a receiving section that receives print information including at least a first printing control command embedded in a print document and a second printing control command relating to a setting condition for the first printing con... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145797 | Simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processor supporting thread-execution-state-sensitive supervisory commands A processor supporting thread-execution-state-sensitive supervisory commands provides a mechanism for executing supervisory commands for live threads. The commands may be sent from a service processor or another primary processor in the system or may be supplied by ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140713 | System and program products for facilitating input/output processing by using transport control words to reduce input/output communications A computer program product, apparatus, and method for facilitating input/output processing of a processing environment are provided. The computer program product is provided for performing a method including: obtaining by an input/output communications adapter of th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140714 | Media management and routing within an electronic device A method and apparatus for intelligently routing and managing audio signals within an electronic device is disclosed. The routing is responsive to a set of logical and physical policies which are stored in data tables which can be updated as needed. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140712 | System, method, and computer program product for inserting a gap in information sent from a drive to a host device A system, method, and computer program product are provided for inserting a gap in information sent from a drive to a host device. In operation, one or more commands are received at a drive from a host device. Additionally, information is queued to send to the host ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135870 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a communication processing unit configured to communicate with an external communication device and a data processing unit configured to communicate with the communication processing unit via a wired data communication pa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131884 | Reusing system configuration information and metadata for related operations Reusing system configuration information and metadata for related operations is disclosed. It is determined that a group of content management system commands may be treated as a related set for purposes of updating content management system configuration informatio... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127047 | Storage system and its multiple extent exclusive control method Proposed is technology for shortening the time required for analyzing and processing commands issued from multiple hosts and speeding up the processing. When a controller receives a command including random IO processing and the reception of commands is complete, it... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122156 | Method and computer for processing an operation command in a computer A method is provided for processing operation command in a computer that has a display and a host which includes a first display processing unit for local displaying and a second display processing unit for remote displaying. The operation command is from a remote d... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117348 | User interface apparatus, digital apparatus connected to the same, data transmitting system including the user interface, and user interface method Provided is a user interface apparatus including a plurality of regions and method for operating the same. The user interface apparatus may be configured to respond to a digital apparatus being disposed in a region, by sending information associated with the region.... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117347 | Providing indirect data addressing for a control block at a channel subsystem of an I/O processing system An computer program product, apparatus, and method for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing for an I/O operation at a host computer system configured for communication with a control unit. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readabl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108562 | Storage subsystem and remote copy system using said subsystem Provided is a storage subsystem capable of improving the data processing speed by balancing the load on processors and controllers. This storage subsystem includes a controller for controlling the input and output of data to and from a storage apparatus that provide... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103803 | Communication between a processor and a controller According to an aspect of the present invention, the communication between processors and peripheral controllers is provided using packets. In an embodiment, the access requests are specified according to a common format such that all the information required for pe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099522 | Arrangements for I/O control in a virtualized system A method for controlling input and output of a virtualized computing platform is disclosed. The method can include creating a device interface definition, assigning an identifier to a paging device and configuring commands useable by a virtual input output server. T... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099523 | PCI express enhancements and extensions including transactions having prefetch parameters A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system w... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095694 | Enhancements to data-driven media management within an electronic device A centralized resource manager manages the routing of audio or visual information within a device, including a handheld device such as a smartphone. The resource manager evaluates data-driven policies to determine how to route audio or visual information to or from ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8078765 | Computer system provided with hypervisor A hypervisor acquires an I/O command that has been issued from a virtual computer. The hypervisor judges whether or not a target of an I/O that complies with the I/O command is an unassigned port associated device that is a device associated with an I/O port that is... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078764 | Method for switching I/O path in a computer system having an I/O switch The physical server includes a hypervisor for managing an association between the virtual server and the I/O device allocated to the virtual server. The I/O switch includes: a setting register for retaining a request to inhibit a transaction from being issued from t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073981 | PCI express enhancements and extensions A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system w... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069271 | Systems and methods for converting a media player into a backup device A data backup system is provided that when coupled to a data source, such as a personal computer, and a media player, such an Apple Computer IPod media player, the data backup system blocks certain communications between the data source and the media player thus pre... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069272 | Highly reliable disk controller Provided is a unit for protecting data with respect to data transfer between memories of a disk controller. The disk controller for controlling data transfer between a host computer and a disk drive includes: a channel unit having a channel memory; a cache unit havi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069269 | Methods and apparatus for accessing content in a virtual pool on a content addressable storage system One embodiment is directed to a method of segregating one or more content addressable storage systems into a plurality of virtual pools. The virtual pools can be allocated to different content sources and/or can be assigned to different storage system capabilities. ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069270 | Accelerated tape backup restoration According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided improving reading of a remote tape device by a host through multiple fibre channel switches. A fibre channel switch preemptively sends read requests to a tape device before read requests are rece... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065441 | Method and apparatus for supporting universal serial bus devices in a virtualized environment A method for performing virtualization, includes managing data between a virtual machine and a bus controller by transmitting an input output (IO) request from the virtual machine to a service virtual machine that owns the bus controller. According to an alternate e... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065442 | High performance journaling for replication and continuous data protection Technologies are described herein for high-performance and space efficient journaling mechanisms. A journal queue can buffer incoming I/O operations. The queue can be read by a journal write module. The journal write module can form metadata headers to store into th... | 11/22/2011 |
