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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190848 | Interleaver memory allocation method and apparatus According to one embodiment, memory is allocated between an interleaver buffer and a de-interleaver buffer in a communication device based on downstream and upstream memory requirements. The upstream de-interleaver memory requirement is determined based on upstream ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180993 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof An information processing apparatus includes a CPU-A which starts a first OS stored in a DRAM-A, a CPU-B which starts a second OS stored in a non-volatile memory, and an HDD which stores a first program executed on the first OS and a second program executed on the s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180992 | Method for configuring a memory space divided into memory banks A method for configuring a memory space, the method including reading a piece of configuration information in the memory space, determining a division of at least one part of the memory space into memory banks according to the configuration information read; and all... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176293 | Method and system for moving active virtual partitions between computers Embodiments of the present invention are directed to enhancing VPAR monitors to allow an active VPAR to be moved from one machine to another, as well as to enhancing virtual-machine monitors to move active VPARs from one machine to another. Because traditional VPAR ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171252 | Sharing of non-divisible files A method and a system for sharing files recorded by non-divisible sections in a first memory, including dividing each section into subsets to which are respectively assigned specific access rights; storing, in a second memory, separate from the first one, a specific... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166273 | Degeneration method and information processing apparatus By including detecting an abnormality in a first system common unit; reading a priority indication, from the storage portion, indicating whether or not the first system common unit is to be degenerated when an abnormality occurs in the first system common unit for e... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156304 | Dynamic data storage repartitioning Embodiments of the present invention enable dynamic repartitioning of data storage in response to one or more triggers. In embodiments, a trigger may be a user-initiated action, a system-generated action, and/or an inference based on storage usage parameters. Applic... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151081 | Method, system and apparatus for memory address mapping for sub-socket partitioning Sub-socket partitioning is enabled using embodiments of the present invention. In one aspect, the memory mapping is performed to isolate memory access for each of the partitions by assigning a partition address and a generated physical address. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151080 | Storage system and management method thereof Proposed are a storage system and its management method having at least two storage apparatuses capable of partitioning an internal resource into logical partitions and managing the logical partitions, and which replicates data written into a primary volume of a pri... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145872 | Autonomic self-tuning of database management system in dynamic logical partitioning environment Database partition monitoring and dynamic logical partition reconfiguration in support of an autonomic self-tunable database management system are provided by an automated monitor that monitors one or more resource parameters in a logical partition running a databas... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145873 | Data management method for network storage system and the network storage system built thereof A data management method for network storage system that said network storage system includes a storage network, a cluster of storage servers that provide data storage services for application servers connecting to the storage network and storage space corresponding... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145604 | Method and apparatus for relocating an active five system journal Relocating a file system journal within a partitioned memory space is described. In one embodiment, a method, which involves relocating an active file system journal, includes writing the changes for relocating the metadata structures into the new file system journa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140818 | Method and system for scalable video data width Processing data samples may comprise partitioning the data samples in a first set of data bits and a second set of data bits and utilizing at least some of the first and second set of data bits while operating under a first condition. Only at least some of the first... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140816 | Utilizing partition resource requirements from workload estimation to automate partition software configuration and validation A method and apparatus for utilizing partition resource requirements to automate computer partition configuration. Partition resource requirements that are collected by a workload estimator include the type and version of software that is to be run on each partition... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140817 | Dynamic logical partition management for NUMA machines and clusters A partitioned NUMA machine is managed to dynamically transform its partition layout state based on NUMA considerations. The NUMA machine includes two or more NUMA nodes that are operatively interconnected by one or more internodal communication links. Each node incl... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131971 | Methods and systems for push-to-storage Methods and systems for storing a plurality of content fragments in a plurality of storage-and-computing elements according to a plurality of storage element types that are associated with the storage-and-computing elements. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127102 | Storage system, copy method, and primary storage apparatus A storage system having a primary storage apparatus for storing data from a host computer in a primary logical volume, and a secondary storage apparatus connected to the primary storage apparatus, for providing a secondary logical volume for storing a copy of the da... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127103 | Storage apparatus, memory area managing method thereof, and flash memory package A storage device is provided, which allows a write area associated with a data area of interest to be allocated according to write performance of a host computer. The storage apparatus includes one or more flash memory packages having a plurality of flash memories a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122220 | Memory usage in imaging devices Imaging devices incorporating semi-volatile memory are described herein. According to various embodiments, a communication interface may receive image data that is stored in a semi-volatile NAND flash memory device divided into three regions. Other embodiments may b... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112610 | Partition bus A method and system are provided for integrating partitions in a virtual machine environment. Specifically, a partition bus is provided, where the partition bus operatively connects partitions in such a way that it functions as a data transport mechanism allowing fo... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112609 | Data management apparatus and method A data management apparatus and method. The data management apparatus includes an input unit to receive a request to update information included in a predetermined master BAT (block allocation table) block of a plurality of master BAT blocks; and an update unit to r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112735 | Affinity-based clustering of vectors for partitioning the columns of a matrix A computer system for partitioning the columns of a matrix A. The computer system includes a processor and a memory unit coupled to the processor. Program code in the memory unit, when executed by the processor, implements the method. Matrix A is provided in a memor... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099578 | Method and system for finding scrolled regions within a tile cache In a method embodiment, a method includes periodically polling data sent to an output. The output is operable to render the data into a human-perceptible form. The method further includes determining if at least one partition of a first plurality of discrete partiti... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099577 | Managing memory in a system that includes a shared memory area and a private memory area A method and apparatus for auto-tuning memory is provided. Memory on a computer system comprises at least one shared memory area and at least one private memory area. Addresses in the shared memory area are accessible to multiple processes. Addresses in the private ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090927 | Method and system for executing applicatons, storage medium controller and storage device An application executing method for automatically executing an application stored in a storage unit of an external storage device in an operating system (OS) of a computer host is provided. The method includes dividing the storage unit into a first partition and a s... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090926 | Hybrid replicated shared memory A multiple computer system with hybrid replicated shared memory is disclosed. The local memory (10, 20, . . . 80) of each of the multiple computers M1, M2, . . . Mn is partitioned into a first part (11, 21, . . . 81) and a second part ( | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078825 | Composite hash and list partitioning of database tables A method for partitioning during an online node add. The method includes providing a data storage cluster with first and second nodes, and storing a table of data in the data storage cluster with a first partition storing a set of rows or data elements in the first ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065500 | Device for processing information and working method thereof A device for processing information and the working method of the same are provided. The device for processing information comprises: a memory in which logic for driving a firmware is stored; a connector for connecting the memory to an external device; and a control... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055875 | Apparatus and method for automatically defining, deploying and managing hardware and software resources in a logically-partitioned computer system A partition wizard allows automatically defining from a set of system requirements a solution profile that defines a combination of hardware and software in multiple logical partitions to satisfy the performance objectives. The solution profile may be used by an ord... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051270 | Memory controller, nonvolatile storage device, nonvolatile storage system, and memory control method A memory controller for reducing a time to create an address management table during initialization of a memory card. The memory controller includes a read-write memory for temporarily storing the address management table and a second memory controller for writing, ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041920 | Partitioning memory mapped device configuration space Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for partitioning memory mapped device configuration space are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a configuration space address storage location, an access map storage location, and addressing logic. T... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041921 | Apparatus, system, and method for utilizing tape media segmentation An apparatus and system are presented for utilizing tape storage media segmentation to improve data access performance. A segmented tape storage medium within a tape cartridge having a first and second segment is utilized. A selection module allows a user to select ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037275 | Memory module system using a partitioned serial presence detect memory A memory module system may include a serial presence detect (SPD) memory and a memory controller. The SPD memory may store first SPD data and second SPD data of a memory module. The SPD memory may be partitioned into at least two regions that may operate as multiple... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037276 | Computer system, storage area allocation method, and management computer Disclosed is a system and method for preventing deterioration in I/O performance of a computer resulted from a use of the same physical disk among different logical volumes. A volume management server 1010 groups together logical volumes which use the same ph... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032732 | System and method for generating a cache-aware bloom filter A cache-aware Bloom filter system segments a bit vector of a cache-aware Bloom filter into fixed-size blocks. The system hashes an item to be inserted into the cache-aware Bloom filter to identify one of the fixed-size blocks as a selected block for receiving the it... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028146 | Management of temporary and permanent areas in nonvolatile memories of a storage system The temporary area capacity required to be secured with respect to the whole permanent area is calculated in accordance with the capacity and access frequency of a host computer data permanent area of a disk device contained in the storage system and a disk device o... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024544 | Free resource error/event log for autonomic data processing system System, method, and computer program product for monitoring resources capable of being assigned to different partitions of a data processing system from a free resources pool of the data processing system. A free resources event log is associated with the free resou... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019961 | Method for storing messages in a message memory and message memory In a method for storing messages in a communications module, the messages to be stored contain first data having a first data volume and second data having a second data volume, and it is possible for the second data volume to be different per message. A message mem... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019962 | System and method for tracking the memory state of a migrating logical partition An apparatus, program product and method for tracking the state of a migrating logical partition. Embodiments may use the state to determine the readiness and/or appropriateness of a page of the logical partition for transferring. The state may include a value or ot... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010834 | Failure information monitoring apparatus and failure information monitoring method According to an aspect of the embodiment, an area control unit refers to usage information of an area management table based on a determined type of an extracted failure information, determines whether the extracted failure information can be stored in a identified ... | 08/30/2011 |
