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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161211 | Storage system and data processing method for the same The present invention aims for efficient use of storage capacity in a storage system by reducing the amount of time taken for processing including removing redundancy and data compression executed with respect to transferred data. Focusing on data patterns in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151022 | Compression and storage of projection data in a rotatable part of a computed tomography system A method and apparatus compress projection data and store the compressed projection data in a rotatable part that is mounted for rotation within a stationary part. The data acquisition source, compressor and storage device are connected to the rotatable part. The co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8117361 | Dynamic compression of systems management data A method, system, and medium for compressing systems management information in a historical data store. Dynamically determining the appropriate compression algorithm to apply based on the type of data being compressed and stored. As further input is received for any... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8078778 | Image processing apparatus for reading compressed data from and writing to memory via data bus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes a data bus provided to access a memory, a compressing unit which compresses an image data and outputs a compressed image data, a write unit which writes the compressed image data into the memory via the data bus, a read unit wh... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8055823 | Bus data transmission apparatus, method for transmitting bus data and bus data communication apparatus Provided are a method and an apparatus for compression transmission of bus data including a plurality of bytes including upper bits and lower bits. The apparatus includes a comparator and an aligner. The comparator compares upper bits of a previous byte with upper b... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046509 | Commonality factoring for removable media Systems and methods for commonality factoring for storing data on removable storage media are described. The systems and methods allow for highly compressed data, e.g., data compressed using archiving or backup methods including de-duplication, to be stored in an ef... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8028106 | Hardware acceleration of commonality factoring with removable media Systems and methods for commonality factoring for storing data on removable storage media are described. The systems and methods allow for highly compressed data, e.g., data compressed using archiving or backup methods including de-duplication, to be stored in an ef... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7991930 | Data storage drive and method employing data compression A tape drive unit has a data compression engine coupled to an incoming data stream. A buffer memory stores data of the incoming data stream. A control module enables or disables the data compression engine in response to a function of the data occupancy level of the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970965 | Method and system for compression of data for block mode access storage For use in a storage network comprising a plurality of network elements and operable with a block mode access storage protocol, a method of operating a compression system operatively coupled to at least one computer and to one or more storage devices configured as a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958289 | Method and system for storing memory compressed data onto memory compressed disks A method (and system) of storing information, includes storing main memory compressed information onto a memory compressed disk, where pages are stored and retrieved individually, without decompressing the main memory compressed information. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7934029 | Data transfer between devices within an integrated circuit An integrated circuit 2 is provided including multiple devices 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 for communicating via an interconnect 16. A sending device 18 includes a sideband signal indicating the use of a representation of a repeating data word in... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7886093 | Electronic device network supporting compression and decompression in electronic devices Disclosed herein is an electronic device network including a plurality of electronic devices. The electronic devices may each have update agents capable of selectively decompressing compressed code and/or compressed data segments. The update agents may also be adapt... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7853742 | System and method to conditionally shrink an executable module An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method relating to shrinking, or optimizing, executable images resulting is a savings of storage space. In at least one embodiment, the present invention removes unnecessary fields, or information, from an execu... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849241 | Memory compression method and apparatus for heterogeneous processor architectures in an information handling system The disclosed heterogeneous processor compresses information to more efficiently store the information in a system memory coupled to the processor. The heterogeneous processor includes a general purpose processor core coupled to one or more processor cores that exhi... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844765 | KVM switch and method for controlling the same A KVM switch is connected to a server, and a client via a network. The KVM switch includes: a signal processing portion that receives an analog image signal corresponding to screen data displayed on a display device of the client from the server, executes analog/dig... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7765346 | Dynamic compression of systems management data A method, system, and medium for compressing systems management information in a historical data store. Dynamically determining the appropriate compression algorithm to apply based on the type of data being compressed and stored. As further input is received for any... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747799 | Storage system Data transfer is performed to and from a host computer using a first block as the minimum unit. Data transfer is performed to and from a storage area using a second block as the minimum unit. A second block set of the storage area stores data obtained from performin... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734851 | Information processing apparatus, management apparatus, and communication method An information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit to a management apparatus transmission data containing data related to count data stored in the information processing apparatus, a pattern storing unit configured to store a typ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7711876 | Dynamic category compression in a data storage library Methods and apparatus are provided for dynamically compressing categories in a data storage library. In one embodiment, the method includes retrieving an identification of a first category in the data storage library, the first category being a last-compressed categ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7636804 | Data storage and protection apparatus and methods of data storage and protection An exemplary storage system for storing data from a host system and emulating a storage tape device is presented. In one example, the storage system includes a compression device configured to associate with a controller of a plurality of storage devices. The compre... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634599 | Method for improving inline compression bandwidth for high speed buses A method for inline bus data compression and decompression is disclosed. In one embodiment, data is selected for transfer via a data bus, the data is divided into byte sized divisions of the bus width, and each byte is compressed by an individual compression engine.... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627702 | Data reproduction device and method, and program Memory resources can be optimized by dynamically determining a threshold value of a storage device used for buffering in accordance with a compression rate of data for streaming reproduction. A data reproduction device for temporarily storing compressed data that is... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7620757 | Contents transfer system and terminal A contents transfer system which includes a transmitter for transmitting a compressed contents via a network, and a terminal for inputting the contents transmitted from the transmitter via the network and outputting the input contents to a recording/reproducing medi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7606954 | Data storage using compression A write request is received from a host, to write data from memory to storage. The request indicates whether or not to compress the data. The data is either compressed or not compressed, as indicated by the request, prior to sending the data to the storage. Other em... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7594051 | Storage apparatus The storage apparatus is provided with a host interface adapter unit, a storage interface adapter unit, a cache memory unit storing data temporarily, a switch unit connecting the host interface adapter unit, the storage interface adapter unit, and the cache memory u... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7562170 | Programmable extended compression mask for dynamic trace This invention provides trace address compression by comparing respective bytes of a current trace address with a stored comparison address. Only the least significant bytes of the current trace address that do not match the comparison address or are less significan... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7562169 | Video and audio front end assembly and method A Video and Audio Front End Assembly and Method. The device and method of this invention takes advantage of the hardware improvements available in personal computing machines that enable higher speed bus communications and much greater computational capacity. The sy... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7523234 | Motion estimation with fast search block matching A video encoder and corresponding method are provided for encoding video signal data for an image block and a particular reference picture index to predict the image block, where the encoder includes a fast search block motion estimator for providing motion vectors ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7475172 | Progressive extended compression mask for dynamic trace This invention provides trace address compression by comparing respective bytes of a current trace address with a stored prior trace address. Only the least significant bytes of the current trace address that do not match the stored prior trace address or are less s... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7447814 | Method and apparatus for fast loss-less memory data compression wherein data corresponds to a cache line of data in cache A method and apparatus for compressing uncompressed data by applying a transform prior to the application of a data compression scheme. At decompression time, a transform can be applied after a data decompression scheme has been applied to compressed data. ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7437492 | Method and system for data compression and compression estimation in a virtual tape library environment A method and system for efficiently storing and transferring data in a virtual tape library environment is disclosed. Data is written to a virtual tape library that emulates a physical tape library. Data stored in the virtual tape library may be compressed and an es... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430638 | Adaptive input / output compressed system and data cache and system using same To improve caching techniques, so as to realize greater hit rates within available memory, of the present invention utilizes a entropy signature from the compressed data blocks to supply a bias to pre-fetching operations. The method of the present invention for cach... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7395363 | Methods and apparatus for multiple bit rate serial communication Symbols are prepared for transmission by representing each bit of the symbols by a cluster of consecutive bits, identical to the bit, in a transmission bit sequence. The transmission bit sequence is transmitted at a particular bit rate. A reception bit sequence of r... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391418 | Three dimensional image processing A method of preparing on a first device object files used for rendering two-dimensional images of threes-dimensional objects on a second device by processing object files containing data defining triangle primitives representing at least one three-dimensional object... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383245 | Data retrieving method, data retrieving apparatus, data compression method and data compression apparatus A data compression apparatus includes a characterizing point extracting part which extracts data expressing characterizing points included in a plurality of data showing a result of carrying out simulation a quantized data generating part which generates quantized d... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383367 | Progressive extended compression mask for dynamic trace This invention provides trace address compression by comparing respective bytes of a current trace address with a stored prior trace address. Only the least significant bytes of the current trace address that do not match the stored prior trace address or are less s... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383399 | Method and apparatus for memory compression Memory apparatus and methods for memory compression. A memory agent may comprise a compression engine to compress or decompress data in the agent without sending the data on the host memory channel. Other embodiments are described and claimed. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376767 | Distributed buffering system having programmable interconnecting logic and applications thereof A distributed buffering system includes at least one input buffer, at least one serializing module, a at least one deserializing module, at least one output buffer, and a programmable logic device. The input buffer is operably coupled to store at least one data bloc... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376772 | Data storewidth accelerator Data storage controllers and data storage devices employing lossless or lossy data compression and decompression to provide accelerated data storage and retrieval bandwidth. In one embodiment of the invention, a composite disk controller provides data storage and re... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370080 | Data transmitting apparatus and method with control feature for transmitting data or transmitting a storage location of data In a data transmission apparatus, an input unit inputs data, and a transmission unit transmits the inputted data to a destination. A discrimination unit discriminates an attribute of the inputted data, and a storage unit stores the inputted data to a predetermined m... | 05/06/2008 |
