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| 8189988 | Digital video recorder having hierarchical memories and method for implementing hierarchical memories A digital video recorder having hierarchical memories and a method for implementing the hierarchical memories are disclosed. The digital video recorder in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes i) a storage unit, which includes a volatile me... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8176244 | Information processing device, information recording medium, information processing method and computer program Provided are a device and a method for identifying whether or not an information recording medium is a pre-formatted disc, and an information recording medium as a pre-formatted disc. In an information processing device that executes recording of data onto a disc, s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176245 | Dynamic disk throttling in a wide area network optimization device A network device may operate to increase application performance over a wide area network. In one particular implementation, the network device may monitor accesses to a disk drive from entities and determine whether an entity is accessing the disk drive in a manner... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171213 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: setting means for setting, a maximum transfer size; calculation means for subtracting a second data amount from a first data amount to calculate a third data amount; boundary determination means for... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166241 | Method of improving efficiency of capacity of volume used for copy function and apparatus thereof Provided is a computer system including: a host computer; a first storage system connected to the host computer; and a second storage system connected to the first storage system; in which the first storage system sets a first logical volume recognized by the host c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161234 | Dynamically switching command types to a mass storage drive A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment method begins by receiving a first new mass storage disk access request. The method then determines the total number of access requests to the mass storage disk received in a window of time. If the total ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161233 | Multi-stream restore system and method A computer system and process restores files on multiple disk drives from a plurality of backup files on a plurality of media types and at a plurality of locations. The system receives at a processor a restore command, and partitions the restore command into two or ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151046 | Disk array apparatus and method for controlling the same The disk array apparatus includes a controller having a communication control unit for accepting a data input/output request, a disk controller unit for controlling a plurality of disk drives, and a cache memory for temporarily storing data transferred between the c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151045 | Medium recording/reproducing apparatus enabling to notice of edition number and method for managing edition number of times A recording/reproducing apparatus, for conducting edition works, such as, addition, movement, and deletion, etc., of data, onto a postscript type medium, defective management of which is conducted with using a replacement area, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145834 | Storage apparatus, disk controller, and command issue control method The storage apparatus of the present invention includes a disk controller (CM) that issues a command to a disk via a fabric device. The CM controls the number of commands to be issued to the disk based on the structure of the storage apparatus and the operation stat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145836 | SCSI protocol emulation for virtual storage device stored on NAS device A virtualization technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes emulating the small computing system interface (SCSI) protocol to access a virtual SCSI storage device backed by a file stored on network attached storage (NAS). ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145835 | Disk controller configured to perform out of order execution of write operations A controller for a disk drive including a buffer memory controller and a processor. The buffer memory controller is configured to receive a first write operation and a second write operation in a first order, store the first write operation and the second write oper... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140744 | Method and system for increasing data storage reliability and efficiency via compression A method and a system is provided for increasing reliability of data stored in storage segments by increasing redundancy data and by permitting user data to fit around defective locations in the storage segment. User data is compressed and reserved for a portion of ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140745 | Data retrieval methods Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradatio... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140747 | Operating method for a memory subsystem and devices for executing the operating method A memory subsystem has at least one first mass memory with a solid-state memory medium, at least one second mass memory with a moving read/write head or moving memory medium, and at least one control unit for controlling the first mass memory and the second mass mem... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140746 | Intelligent memory data management Systems and/or methods that facilitate data management on a memory device are presented. A data management component can log and tag data creating data tags. The data tags can comprise static metadata, dynamic metadata or a combination thereof. The data management c... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140748 | IT automation appliance imaging system and method A system, method, and computer program product for harvesting an image from a local disk of a managed endpoint to an image library is provided. In an embodiment of the method for harvesting an image, a managed endpoint is provided with a boot image that causes the e... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131920 | Method and system for dynamically allocating read and write sequence randomizer A data formatting system and method to improve data efficiency and integrity in a hard disk are disclosed. One embodiment provides a disk drive system having a plurality of lookup tables which store a plurality of randomizer seeds which may be dynamically encoded in... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131922 | Storage system The storage system includes a disk controller for receiving write commands from a computer, and a plurality of disk devices in which data is written in accordance with the control of the disk controller. The size of the first block which constitutes the data unit ha... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131923 | Optimizing execution of I/O requests for a disk drive in a computing system An I/O Optimizer receives an I/O request specifying a plurality of disk blocks of the disk drive for access. A plurality of I/O sub-requests is determined from the I/O request, each I/O sub-request specifying a set of one or more adjacent disk blocks of the pluralit... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131921 | Command suspension in response, at least in part, to detected acceleration and/or orientation change In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that may include circuitry to, in response at least in part to detected change in at least one of acceleration and orientation of storage, request suspension of at least one command currently stored in at least one pending ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131919 | Techniques for controlling storage device use by performing a storage device location assessment operation based on a current storage device identifier An electronic system includes a framework, data storage circuitry and a controller. The framework includes multiple device slots. The data storage circuitry is arranged to access storage devices installed in the framework. The controller is arranged to receive a cur... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127075 | Non-linear stochastic processing storage device A storage device includes an interface for receiving and outputting messages for processing data units, wherein each data unit includes message input field parameters, message output field parameters, and content field parameters, a non-volatile memory for storing d... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122191 | Data protection systems with multiple site replication Systems and methods for replicating data from a first site to a second site remote from said first site are described. An embodiment includes storing compressed data on a hard disk appliance, reading said data without decompressing said data, sending said data over ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112581 | Caching in multicore and multiprocessor architectures A multicore processor comprises a plurality of cache memories; a plurality of processor cores, each associated with one of the cache memories; one or more memory interfaces providing memory access paths from the cache memories to a main memory; and one or more direc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112580 | Disk drive having multiple disk surfaces accessible by a read/write head and nonvolatile memory for continuous data transfer A magnetic recording hard disk drive (HDD) has at least one read/write head that accesses more than one disk surface. The HDD is able to transfer data to and from the host computer seamlessly without interruption during the time the head is being moved from one disk... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108400 | Database segment searching A segment encompasses a number of segment records less than the total number of records of a database. The segment records have values for a field of the database. Lowest and highest values of the segment records for the field, and a bitmap for the segment, can be d... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108600 | Data storage apparatus that appropriately revises FDCB information during background formatting A data storage apparatus, including a controller that formats a rewritable recording medium in the background, interrupts the background formatting when a host computer requests to store data in the rewritable recording medium, stores the data in the rewritable reco... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108601 | Methods for implementation of an array of removable disk drives Embodiments provide systems and methods for storing data on two or more removable disk drives. The two or more removable disk drives are inserted into a modular drive bay having two or more drive ports. Embodiments of the modular drive bay include a switch to redire... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108602 | Log-structured file system for disk drives with shingled writing Data is written to a hard disk drive using shingled writing principles, i.e., each data track is partially overwritten when an immediately contiguous data track is written. One or more contiguous data tracks establish a band, and a band establishes a respective segm... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108599 | Erasure techniques for emulating streamed data format for non tape media Disclosed is a method and apparatus relating generally to erasure techniques for emulating a streamed data format for non tape media capable of being used with a data storage arrangement to generate replenished user data space. The data storage arrangement comprises... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103823 | Host initiated background formatting of optical medium A method and a host processing device are provided for background formatting, or de-icing, an optical medium with no de-icing assistance from an optical drive upon which the optical medium is mounted. In a foreground mode, an optical medium may be initially formatte... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103630 | Data processing system and storage subsystem provided in data processing system A first storage subsystem 100A includes a first storage device 6A1 and one or more second storage devices 6A2, 6A3. A second storage subsystem 100B includes a third storage device 6B1 and a fourth storag... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099547 | Load sharing method and system for computer system The invention is directed to a load sharing method in a computer system including a first storage subsystem, a host computer, and a management computer. In the computer system, the first storage subsystem creates a plurality of first logical units from a storage are... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090906 | Dynamic processor bandwidth allocation in response to environmental conditions Servo-related tasks are performed at a first processor in a disk drive. A signal indicative of an environmental condition is received at the first processor, and code associated with the environmental condition is identified based at least in part on the signal. A s... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090905 | System, method, and computer program product for converting logical block address de-allocation information in a first format to a second format A system, method, and computer program product are provided for converting logical block address de-allocation information in a first format to a second format. In use, logical block address de-allocation information is received in a first format associated with a f... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090903 | Fair and dynamic disk input/output bandwidth distribution Embodiments that facilitate the fair and dynamic distribution of disk input/output (IO) bandwidth are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, the method includes organizing one or more disk IO time intervals into one or more queues. The method further includes... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090904 | Reduced hard-drive-capacity detection device The present disclosure relates to a device for detecting accessible capacity in an external hard drive. The disclosed device may detect reduced accessible capacity in an external hard drive due to an modification or deletion of either the Host-Protected Area or the ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082389 | Apparatus and method for mirroring data between nonvolatile memory and a hard disk drive This storage apparatus that provides to a host computer a logical device for storing data sent from the host computer includes a nonvolatile memory for storing the data, a disk-shaped memory device for storing the data, and a controller for controlling the nonvolati... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078580 | Hybrid data archival method and system thereof The present invention relates to a method and a system for obtaining both online and offline backups from one application with a single toggle operation. By performing the method of the present invention it would be possible to take hybrid backup of the data automat... | 12/13/2011 |
