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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353434 | Method for controlling storage system A storage system including: channel control portions each including a circuit board on which a file access processing portion for receiving file-by-file data input/output requests sent from information processors through a network and an I/O processor for outputting... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352705 | Method and apparatus for determining endpoints for use as testing devices A method and apparatus for testing a digital network having a plurality of subnetworks by determining by one of a plurality of user endpoint devices assigned to one of the plurality of subnetworks upon the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices being idle tha... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353293 | Method for making available features for alternative connections of primary connections The invention relates to a method for creating alternative routes to primary connections, particularly to voice-over IP connections, in which the data transmission occurs in a primary network, and an alternative data transmission occurs in a, as a rule, less efficie... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352744 | Switched full-duplex ethernet type communication network and implementation process for this network A switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch and at least one vi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353113 | System, method and computer program product for aquatic environment assessment A system, method and computer program product are provided for assessing aquatic environments. Initially, the user measures biological, geomorphological and physiological parameters, quantitatively, semi-quantitatively and qualitatively in the field, guided by the c... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353306 | Storage controller redundancy using bi-directional reflective memory channel A bi-directional reflective memory channel between a pair of storage controllers is used to maintain a mirrored copy of each storage controller's native buffer contents within the buffer of the other storage controller. To maintain such mirrored copies, buffer write... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353194 | System and method for managing recurring orders in a computer network A recurring order management system and method for a computer network is disclosed. The system receives a request to suggest a recurring order for one or more products or services. The system generates a profile which stores the suggested products or services, the s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353269 | Network monitoring system A network monitoring system which monitors activities on a network with optimal coverage and frequency, depending on the current state of the network. A monitoring policy setting unit sets a specific monitoring policy that includes: which object to watch, which item... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352280 | System and method for intruder tracking using advanced correlation in a network security system A method for correlating event information comprises receiving event information for a plurality of detected events wherein the event information for a particular detected event comprises a plurality of attributes associated with that detected event. The method cont... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352544 | Method and apparatus for providing a remedial strategy for an electrical circuit A method and electrical circuit for dynamic reconfiguration of a DC-to-AC inverter comprising first and second power rails where each the rails has a power source. The method comprises monitoring the first and second power rails for short-circuit failure; and upon f... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353353 | File security management A method for implementing security management in a storage area network by controlling access to network resources. Initially, a resource provider communicates with potential resource users, such as host computers, servers, and workstations, to allow the users to di... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353511 | Method and system for dynamically distributing updates in a network A first version of a program operating at a network site is updated by automatically downloading from a remote site any update for the program in response to an automated event. A downloaded update is installed to generate a second version of the program. The second... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353355 | System and method for rapid restoration of server from backup A server is restored by creating an image of a local drive of a server; replacing a driver in the boot up procedure of the server, the replacement driver redirecting disk drive access requests from the local drive to the image; on-demand copying portions of the oper... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352692 | Resource reservation scheme for path restoration in an optical network A method for reserving resources for restoration of a failed virtual path in a mesh optical network is defined. The method in one embodiment, defines multiple classes of service for the virtual path by allocating certain path performance, path implementation and pat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353259 | Method and apparatus for exchanging configuration information between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration A node, within a networked computer system, is capable of supporting communications with other nodes relating to operating multiple application instances in a master-slave configuration. Each node periodically generates and sends a Heartbeat message that indicates t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349961 | Detecting configuration inconsistency in storage networks The present invention provides techniques for managing configurations within centralized storage management systems. Specific embodiments provide users such as IT managers the capability to check configurations of SAN devices in a system and detect any inconsistenci... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350090 | Ensuring power availability to a blade server when blade management controller is corrupted An information handling system having a plurality of blade server modules (BSMs) and power supply units (PSUs) uses a module monitor board (MMB) to monitor and control a power budget of the PSUs by each individual BSM requesting authorization from the MMB in order t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350098 | Detecting events of interest for managing components on a high availability framework Events of interest are detected in order to manage a high availability framework. In a framework in which a plurality of components are executing, the components are periodically polled to detect occurrence of the event of interest. A monitor is also established for... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349479 | Communications system of two-wire line enhancing fail-safe performance Five electronic control units (ECU) control vehicle devices using CAN protocol. Each of ECUs is provided with a resistor and a switch for activating the resistor. A first and fifth ECUs are arranged on the leftmost and rightmost ends. Resistors of the first and fift... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349902 | Content consistency in a data access network system A data access network system is described that includes a content server coupled to a plurality of proxy servers via an interconnect network. The content server store at least one content file. The data access network system also includes a system of maintaining con... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349350 | Determining two node-disjoint paths using on-demand flooding The present disclosure relates to determining and establishing at least two node disjoint paths, and, more specifically, to determining and establishing at least two node disjoint paths within a wireless ad-hoc network that includes a source and a target node using ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350099 | Method and system for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data between data networks A method and system are provided for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data from a failed network circuit in a first data network to a second data network. The network circuit in the first data network includes a logical circuit for communicating da... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350100 | Method and apparatus for monitoring data-processing system A system management method and apparatus presents in real time an importance level of a job affected by a failure in distributed systems to make it possible to quickly deal with the failure and minimize business losses. The apparatus includes an integrated managemen... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349326 | Control of inter-zone/intra-zone recovery using in-band communications A method of communicating information regarding a failure is disclosed. The method includes generating failure information. The failure affects a virtual path, which is between a first node and a second node. A first zone includes the first node, and a second zone i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349328 | Routing system An active system routing device, upon receiving a location registration request sent from a mobile node, forwards the received location registration request to a standby system routing device. The standby system routing device stores a home address and a care-of add... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350106 | Device for aiding the locating of failure of a complex system A device for aiding the location of a failure within a complex system may include a database that stores diagnostic aid rules; a detector that detects a failure, if any, of the complex system and provides, upon a failure, information relating to the origin of this f... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350206 | Method to reduce provisioning time in shared storage systems by preemptive copying of images A method and device for provisioning another device with an application. The golden image of the application, representing a source copy of the application, is stored at a first storage location in a central storage device. A copy of the golden image is generated pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350226 | System and method for analyzing security policies in a distributed computer network A system and method for analyzing a global security policy in a distributed computing environment. In one embodiment the security policy is a global security policy which is stored in, and managed by, a policy manager located on a server. In another embodiment the s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346803 | Anomaly detection A system such as a Web-based system in which a plurality of computers interact with each other is monitored to detect online an anomaly. Transactions of a service provided by each of a plurality of computers to another computer are collected, a matrix of correlation... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346052 | Process for implementation of a redundant switched full-duplex ethernet type communication network The invention relates to a process for implementation of a redundant switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network comprising at least two independent elementary networks, each elementary network (RE1, RE2) comprising at least one source sub... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346802 | Routing communications to a storage area network Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for routing communications to a storage area network (SAN). In one embodiment, the machine-readable media includes first program code to determine a route path through a gateway to a SAN for each of a plural... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346800 | Fail over method through disk take over and computer system having failover function When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the prima... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346801 | Persistent reservation IO barriers A method for sharing a storage device amongst a plurality of computers while providing data integrity in the storage device is presented. A computer is registered for a reserved access type with the storage device by storing a computer identifier in the storage devi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343529 | Automatic error and corrective action reporting system for a network storage appliance A computer system is coupled to a remote service provider over a network. The computer system, in response to certain events, may generate an error package, which is transmitted to the remote service provider over the network. The error package includes system logs ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343401 | Remote maintenance apparatus, terminal connected to the apparatus and computer readable medium for realizing the apparatus and the terminal A remote maintenance apparatus is provided. The remote maintenance apparatus includes: a first obtaining part which obtains configuration information of terminals sent from the terminals; a storing part which stores the configuration information while bringing the c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342890 | Data duplication for transmission over computer networks Techniques are described that increase the reliability and quality of data transmissions of computer networks. The techniques provide for the generation of at least two duplicate data flows for carrying data in a computer network. The duplicate data flows are transm... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343406 | Proactive call and contact center system A proactive call center which detects problems, resolves the problems, and then contacts the customers before customers initiate calls themselves. In the present invention, the workflow process is monitored to ensure that a transaction is completed without problems.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342581 | Method and apparatus for displaying 3-D state indicators A method for presenting a user selected status of an object in a three dimensional graphic display is disclosed. The method includes the step of receiving a request to select a property of an object for display. The method further includes the step of displaying at ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343524 | Network analysis omniscent loop state machine Embodiments of the invention provide a method for analyzing a data trace representative of an FC network. The method includes determining a topology of the network, filtering the data trace for open commands that are not perceived by at least one analyzer positioned... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343412 | Method for maintaining and managing dynamic web pages stored in a system cache and referenced objects cached in other data stores A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for managing data stored in a data storage device connected to a computer. In accordance with the present invention, it is determined that a web page is to be cached. The web page references other objects. The referenc... | 03/11/2008 |
