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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171202 | Asynchronous distributed object uploading for replicated content addressable storage clusters A method is performed by two or more devices of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system. The method includes receiving, at the two or more devices, a group of chunks having a same unique temporary identifier, where the group of chunks comprises a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8145826 | Method and system for providing data accessibility and interlinks between a user and a storage device A new approach to the manipulation of data access of storage that complies with certain mapping interlinks between front-end servers and back-end storage data pool and which lessens the complexity of the interlinks and improves the efficiency of the data accessibili... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140472 | Method for allocating logical unit inside storage system to logical volume and storage controller A storage controller comprises a creation module that creates a logical volume, a management module that manages a plurality of types of logical units inside a storage system, a measurement module that measures an access characteristic, which is a characteristic rel... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140602 | Providing an object to support data structures in worm storage An object storage system provides a storage object to support index structures, logs, and audit trails in WORM storage. The storage object includes a mutable object, an immutable object, or an appendable object. For each storage object, the system maintains an indic... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140736 | Data management apparatus, data management method, and program A data management apparatus for managing data stored in a predetermined storage area includes a reader configured to communicate with a plurality of objects each having a memory storing an address indicating a storage area and to read the address from the memory of ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140890 | Relocating bad block relocation (BBR) directory upon encountering physical media defect on a disk Apparatus, method and program product for relocating Bad Block Relocation Directory (BBRD) on a disk storage pre-allocate a number of areas for BBRD in different locations of the disk storage. The locations for the BBRD are calculated based upon the size of the disk... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135723 | Leveraging low-latency memory access Computational units of any task may run in different silos. In an embodiment, a search query may be evaluated efficiently on a non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) machine, by assigning separate chunks of the index to separate memories. In a NUMA machine, each soc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131910 | System and article of manufacture for device selection Provided are a system and article of manufacture for device selection. A command is generated in a host, wherein the command is for a library manager not directly connected to the host. A device is selected from a subsystem in a storage library based on a preference... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131683 | Methods and systems for group data management and classification Methods and systems are provided for retaining and managing global records of an organization. In one implementation, a method is provided for retaining global records of an organization. The method may include storing, in a memory device, at least one arrangement o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127070 | Programmable I/O interface The invention provides an architecture and method for implementing a programmable I/O interface. The primary function provides a generic reconfigurable interface for serial communications between a laser printer controller and the print mechanism. The design also su... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112465 | System, device, and method for validating data structures in a storage system Validating a data structure includes (a) maintaining a tracking structure in a memory, the tracking structure including a corresponding status field for each table entry, the status fields having an unmarked state and a marked state; (b) processing the table entries... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108358 | File management method of server A file management method of a server is implemented on a Linux operating system of the server. The method includes the steps of determining if there is a file deleted; when the result is yes, searching for an actual disk block location at which the deleted file is o... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099421 | File system, and method for storing and searching for file by the same A file system and a method for file storage and file search by the same are provided. All files have unique names in a block-based storage device, such as a hard disk, a flash memory, etc., so that each file is mapped and stored in a one-dimensional storage area. Ea... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086561 | Document searching system and document searching method In a document searching system, a first storing apparatus, a second storing apparatus, and a document managing apparatus are connected to one another. The document managing apparatus stores structure information that shows a hierarchical structure regarding hierarch... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078581 | Storage system and remote copy control method A plurality of second groups respectively including one or more second volumes are configured in correspondence with each of the first groups of a remote copy source in a remote copy destination, journals are acquired from the first storage apparatus periodically an... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073884 | System and method to derive high level file system information by passively monitoring low level operations on a FAT file system A method (and corresponding system and computer program product) detects modified files and/or directories in a storage device. The method builds a file-sector coordination table for files in the storage device before relinquishing access control of the storage devi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065350 | Method and system for flexibly providing shared access to data pools Herein described is a method and system for providing shared access to data residing within a data pool of a data storage device. Aspects of the invention incorporate the use of one or more mechanisms by which access to the data occurs. The one or more mechanisms ma... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8024362 | System and method for erasing and writing desktop management interface data under a linux system A method for erasing and writing desktop management interface (DMI) data under a Linux system is provided. The method constructs a virtual 8086 mode in the Linux system for executes a PnP calling routine. The method then erase and/or write the DMI data from a manage... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015343 | Providing executing programs with reliable access to non-local block data storage Techniques are described for managing access of executing programs to non-local block data storage. In some situations, a block data storage service uses multiple server storage systems to reliably store block data that may be accessed over one or more networks by p... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015342 | Method of managing and restoring identifier of storage device and apparatus therefor A method of managing and restoring an identifier of a storage device and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes the operations of generating a storage device identifier; recording the storage device identifier in a non-volatile memory of a host; gen... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015191 | Implementing dynamic processor allocation based upon data density Dynamic processor allocation is implemented based upon bitmap data density. A bitmap index is used to process the query. A bitmap is created for the query. The bitmap is partitioned into single I/O operations. A variable partition size is provided based upon data de... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010734 | Method and system for reading instructions from NAND flash memory and writing them into SRAM for execution by a processing device A method and system is provided for efficient execution of code in memory by a processing device and may comprise determining whether a first type of memory is present. If the first type of memory is present, at least a portion of code stored in the first type of me... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996710 | Defect management for a semiconductor memory system A method is provided for managing defects in a semiconductor memory system having a plurality of addressable locations. In the method, a first plurality of the addressable locations is allocated as in-use locations, and a second plurality of the addressable location... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7984038 | Longest prefix match (LPM) algorithm implementation for a network processor Novel data structures, methods and apparatus for finding the longest prefix match search when searching tables with variable length patterns or prefixes. To find the exact match or the best matching prefix, patterns have to be compared a bit at a time until the exac... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975094 | Programmable I/O interface The invention provides an architecture and method for implementing a programmable I/O interface. The primary function provides a generic reconfigurable interface for serial communications between a laser printer controller and the print mechanism. The design also su... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970747 | Multi-protocol access to files and directories An operating system is provided. The system includes an agent component to monitor computer activities between one or more single-item access components and one or more set-based access components. A protocol component is employed by the agent component to mitigate ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966445 | Read status controller A controller in a processing system can detect programmable bit sequences sent from a host processor to an external device, such as a memory, indicating whether a response from the external device needs to be read. The controller can also read a response from the ex... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966353 | Method and system for flexibly providing shared access to non-data pool file systems Herein described is a method and system for providing shared access to data residing within non-data pool related file systems. Aspects of the invention incorporate the use of one or more share access mechanisms by which access to the data occurs. The one or more sh... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962499 | System and method for identifying and mitigating redundancies in stored data In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958084 | System, method, and computer-readable medium for providing a regionalized file system A system, method, and computer readable medium that facilitate operation of a file system capable of dividing an existing homogeneous file system into a series of regions, with each region accommodating storage devices having compatible characteristics are provided.... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7937393 | Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937521 | Read disturbance management in a non-volatile memory system An invention is provided for read disturbance management in a non-volatile memory. The invention includes storing a read count data for a memory location in non-volatile memory. The read count data indicating an amount of read operations accessing the memory locatio... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934048 | Filtered register architecture to generate actuator signals In various embodiments, apparatus and systems, as well as methods, may include an enhanced register to provide actuator signals to a memory array, the enhanced register including a first memory device including an first enable input, a first data input coupled to a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930466 | Storage terminal, information processing apparatus, and information processing system A storage terminal includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a controlling unit. The storage unit stores first information and second information. The first information is information that is displayed according to a procedure defined in an Internet browser... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7913031 | Recording apparatus and recording control program A recording apparatus includes a recording unit capable of recording an image on a recording medium, a file input device capable of receiving a file from the outside, an external storage unit capable of reading and writing a digital image file, a user interface, and... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908423 | Memory apparatus, and method of averagely using blocks of a flash memory A flash memory controller for averagely using blocks of a flash memory and the method thereof are provided. The flash memory controller is configured to process wear-leveling by allocating frequently updated data in less-erased blocks, and, allocating less-updated d... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904634 | Storage terminal and information processing system A storage terminal includes an information storage unit, an association storage unit, a receiving unit, and a processing unit. The information storage unit includes a plurality of storage areas having individually different identifiers assigned thereto. The associat... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899973 | Information processing device and program The present invention provides an information processing device for estimating usage of contents and properly limiting functions realized through use of the contents in accordance with the estimation. Usage of contents is estimated by determining in which of cache m... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895389 | Measuring data transfer time for disk drives Systems and methods are disclosed for testing performance of a disk drive in a digital home communications terminal. In one such method, the steps comprise: measuring at least one time for data transfer of a group of sectors on the disk drive; and providing the time... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895217 | Method and system for processing requests for accessing stored information Method and system for processing a plurality of requests for accessing “small files” stored at a storage device is provided. A user may define file size and each small file may include one or more blocks of data. The requests are sorted based on an address of a ... | 02/22/2011 |
