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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8055861 | Methods and apparatus for managing deletion of data One embodiment is directed to the deletion of content units from a storage system. When a content unit is deleted, a reflection may be created and stored on the storage system. The reflection identifies the deleted content unit and may include additional information... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055862 | System and method for providing a backup/restore interface for third party HSM clients Performing a backup of a stub object located on a file system managed by a hierarchical storage manager configured to migrate data objects from the file system to a migration storage pool. The stub object includes information for recalling a migrated data object and... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051261 | Method and system to locate a storage device A method of locating a storage device of a number of storage devices is provided. A request for a data item is received. The request includes a globally unique identifier (GUID) that is associated with a user. A start number is generated based on the GUID, and the s... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051260 | Determining environmental availability in a storage subsystem A method for safeguarding data stored in a memory of a data storage system includes monitoring values of a subset of environmental variables associated with the data-storage system and updating a portion of a table containing values of environmental variables associ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041676 | Backup and restore of file system objects of unknown type File system objects of unknown type are backed up and restored. A list of file system objects is received from a file system. The file system objects are to be backed up. For each file system object that has a file type that is unknown, the following is performed. F... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041907 | Method and system for efficient space management for single-instance-storage volumes A method and system for efficient space management for single-instance-storage volumes is provided. A backup module storing data within a collection of containers according to access locality and retention time of the data, wherein the retention time defines an amou... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037262 | Hierarchy of a structure of a volume A method, apparatus and system of a hierarchy of a structure of a volume is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a physical volume, a structure to provide a mapping to a location of a data segment of the physical volume that may include a table having a h... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037263 | Control device of a storage system comprising storage devices of a plurality of types A control device of a storage system including a CPU which receives input information including at least a size and an archive deadline of data which is stored in storage devices; wherein data management information includes a write threshold value regarding one typ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028135 | Method and apparatus for maintaining compliant storage According to an embodiment of the invention, a storage server is mirrored onto a mirroring server. The mirroring server maintains point-in-time images of data stored on the storage server. The point-in-time images have a retention period. During the retention period... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024295 | Method and apparatus for archiving and unarchiving objects The invention is directed towards methods and apparatuses for archiving and unarchiving objects. Some embodiments of the invention archive and unarchive objects that have global and user settings in multi-user environments. To archive objects, these embodiments iden... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015373 | Information sharing between a backup storage device and a management appliance Backup storage apparatus and related methods wherein communication capabilities are provided that allow information to be shared between devices installed in the apparatus to extend the functionality of the apparatus. A controller comprising a communication link is ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010498 | Virtually infinite reliable storage across multiple storage devices and storage services A logical file system that distributes copies of files across various different physical storage resources yet provides a consistent view to the user of his or her data, regardless of which machine the user is accessing the files from, and even when the user's compu... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010756 | Methods and apparatus for point-in-time volumes Methods and apparatus for point-in-time volumes are provided. A relationship is enabled between a source volume and point-in-time volume. Copying a data chunk to the point-in-time volume before a write operation modifies the data chunk on the source volume dynamical... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996635 | Offsite management using disk based tape library and vault system A method for archiving data from a first disk-based storage device to a second disk-based storage device includes moving an emulated tape from a first element to a second element simulatively without actually moving data associated with the emulated tape. The data a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991970 | Remote copy with worm guarantee In the case in which data in a storage system A is remotely copied to a storage system B, it is not taken into account whether the data of the remote copy is WORM data. In the case in which a setting is made such that data stored in a volume in the storage system A ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987156 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for taking and managing snapshots of a storage volume A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for taking snapshots of a storage volume. According to aspects of one method, each snapshot is represented as a unique sequence number. Every fresh write access to a volume in a new snapshot life... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987325 | Method and apparatus for implementing a storage lifecycle based on a hierarchy of storage destinations A method and apparatus for implementing a storage lifecycle policy based on a hierarchy of storage destinations to improve storage lifecycle management is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises specifying at least one source copy for at least one storage... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979649 | Method and apparatus for implementing a storage lifecycle policy of a snapshot image A method and apparatus for managing a lifecycle of a snapshot image using a storage lifecycle policy is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises recording a snapshot image of a volume and creating a copy of the snapshot image, wherein the copy is to be use... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970736 | System, method and computer program product for storing transient state information A method, system and computer program product for storing transient state information, the method includes: defining a first logical storage space within at least one storage device in response to at least one characteristic of a processing system logical memory spa... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970740 | Automated service configuration snapshots and fallback In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for taking a snapshot of a service instance, including transitioning the service instance to a new state, determining whether to take the snapshot based on the new state, obtaining a property composition o... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971011 | Remote copy method and storage system A remote copy method for copying data within a first storage apparatus to a second storage apparatus via a network, includes transmitting data from the first storage apparatus in units of first buffer sets each formed by a plurality of first recording exclusive buff... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962454 | Central database server apparatus and method for maintaining databases on application servers A central database server (10) supports a central database (12) that contains central database content. A first archiving module (30) archives central database content into a content archive (32). A second archiving module (44) arc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958086 | Systems and methods for managing location of media in a storage system A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953944 | Dynamic data archiving with dynamically defined rules and dynamically defined parameter A method and apparatus for archiving medical data in one of two or more storage modules, comprising a short time storage module with fast access and a long time storage module with slow access. The method comprises the steps of defining at least one set of rules for... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953945 | System and method for providing a backup/restore interface for third party HSM clients A method for performing backup of a stub object located on a file system managed by a hierarchical storage manager configured to migrate data objects from the file system 10 a migration storage pool includes determining whether a backup copy of the migrated d... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945748 | Data migration and copying in a storage system with dynamically expansible volumes When migrating data stored in a storage region assigned to a volume to another storage region, the connection status of the host computer and volume is confirmed. When the host computer and volume are connected, the maximum capacity of the volume requested by the ho... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937544 | Apparatus, method and computer product for data backup and synchronization In a data recording apparatus, a monitoring unit detects a VLU including an MRB that manages an area that has not been accessed for a specified time period based on a current time, a time management table, and a parameter table. From MRBs of the detected VLU, the mo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934065 | Computer system storing data on multiple storage systems During the normal operation state of a computer system 1000, the data stored in a primary storage system 200P is copied to an intermediate storage system 200I via synchronous copying and the data stored in the intermediate storage system 200 | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933915 | Graph querying, graph motif mining and the discovery of clusters A method for analyzing, querying, and mining graph databases using subgraph and similarity querying. An index structure, known as a closure tree, is defined for topological summarization of a set of graphs. In addition, a significance model is created in which the g... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934064 | System and method for consolidation of backups A system, method and computer program product for consolidation of incremental backups, wherein each incremental backup includes data and a backup map with links that point to data of current and/or previous backups, including selecting a plurality of incremental ba... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7917476 | Device management system using log management object and method for generating and controlling logging data therein A device management (DM) system using a log management object and a method for effectively generating and controlling logging data in the system are disclosed. A DM server includes only information that a client can transfer processing of a corresponding command to ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912816 | Adaptive archive data management In one embodiment, input is received from a user defining a classification and an analytic for the classification. Multiple classifications and analytics may be defined by a user. A definition of relevance parameters is determined that characterize the classificatio... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899794 | Optimizing lock acquisition on transaction logs A system, method, and computer program product for improving physical lock acquisition for database transaction logs are described herein. In an embodiment, the method operates by receiving a request for a transaction log page and determining whether a requested log... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7900002 | Multi-client cluster-based backup and restore Backup and restore technology comprising a backup engine, one or more client backup modules coupled to the backup engine via a backup protocol, and a backup database coupled to the backup engine, the backup database including a set of clusters, the set of clusters f... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885932 | Managing storage of individually accessible data units Managing data includes: receiving at least one group of individually accessible data units over an input device or port, each data unit identified by a key value, with key values of the received data units being sorted such that the key value identifying a given fir... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882086 | Method and system for portset data management A system and method are provided to method and system for portset data management. The system comprises a mass storage device to store a list of portset records; a network drivers layer to receive a request to add a new portset record to a list of portset records; a... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877560 | Storage system with automated resource allocation When a plurality of disk control apparatuses function as one disk control apparatus with a mutual connecting network, a processor is used as an independent resource. Moreover, states of use of resources are monitored, and processing from distribution of the resource... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873803 | Nonvolatile memory with self recovery A nonvolatile memory array includes two or more devices, each device containing data that is scrambled using a different scrambling scheme. When the same data is provided and stored in both devices, different data patterns occur in each device, so that if one of the... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873602 | Apparatus and method for maintaining databases on application servers A central database server (10) supports a central database (12) that contains central database content. A first archiving module (30) archives central database content into a content archive (32). A second archiving module (44) arc... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865676 | Load equalizing storage controller and control method for the same An object of the invention is to provide a storage controller and control method that can efficiently and easily prevent reduced data I/O processing performance due to an imbalance between loads on controllers. In the storage controller and control method for provid... | 01/04/2011 |
