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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185599 | Programming techniques for distributed multi-party networks Architecture for programming in a distributed computing environment where different components of a system are owned or controlled by different entities and heterogeneous in terms of resource availability and a willingness to share. Multiple devices can be programme... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170994 | Techniques for virtual archiving Techniques for virtual archiving are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for performing virtual archiving comprising applying archiving rules to a backup catalog, generating a virtual archive catalog based at... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171097 | Apparatus, system, and method of processing printing operation on home network An apparatus, a system, and a method of processing a printing operation on a home network that searches an available media storage device upon a request of a printing job of predetermined contents, transmits an address of the searched media storage device, and print... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8090789 | Method of operating a data storage system having plural data pipes A data storage system having protocol controller for converting packets between PCIE format used by a storage processor and Rapid IO format used by a packet switching network. The controller includes a PCIE end point for transferring atomic operation (DSA) requests,... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7970851 | Method and system for managing and monitoring virtual storage servers of a hosting storage server A storage management application is provided to manage and monitor virtual storage servers in a hosting storage server. In addition, in order to facilitate virtual storage server management and monitoring, a virtual storage server administrator role is provided. The... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958199 | Switching systems and methods for storage management in digital networks Disclosed are improved methods, devices and systems for storage management in digital networks. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7856481 | Data communication apparatus and electronic mail data producing method A data communication apparatus and an electronic mail data producing method are provided that are capable of allowing a file name to be easily added to a file attached to an electronic mail and also allowing a file name to be added to a file attached to an electroni... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7801964 | System and method for providing conditional access to server-based applications from remote access devices Systems and methods are provided for providing users at remote access devices with conditional access to server-based applications. Requests for access to server-based applications (e.g., requests to launch or obtain data associated with the server-based application... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801965 | Method and apparatus for processing data, and medical appliance system for processing data A method for processing data is proposed, particularly image data in a medical system, in which a plurality of imaging modalities for capturing the data and their associated apparatus for locally processing and storing the data are connected to one another via a dat... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7774424 | Method of rate snooping in a SAS/SATA environment A method and apparatus for determining a set of common link rates for communication between two storage network elements in a storage network system. During the speed negotiation process, a controlling storage network element receives supported link rate information... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7711721 | Apparatus, system, and method for suspending a request during file server serialization reinitialization An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for suspending a data access request during serialization reinitialization of a file server. The apparatus includes a request recognition module, an availability module, and a suspension module. The request recognition ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7664823 | Partitioned packet processing in a multiprocessor environment A packet processing system includes multiple processors and a set of code partitions that implement a feature set for packet processing. Each of the processors is capable of loading and executing one or more of the code partitions. A context manager enables packet p... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7606868 | Universal file access architecture for a heterogeneous computing environment An architecture and system are described that provide a unified file access service within in a managed computing environment composed of diverse networks, computing devices, and storage devices. The service provides mechanisms for remotely accessing the file system... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7529805 | Distributed web services network architecture Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating deployment, configuration and maintenance of web services networks. The present invention features a distributed web services network architecture that, in one embodiment, leverages the functionality of existing network ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7433934 | Network storage virtualization method and system A network storage system where the network storages are connected to clients. The system is resistive to faults and enables to access using the NFS standard protocol and allows clients access without regard to the interface even when the process is executed on any n... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418525 | Shared simultaneously-connected removable drives and servers each housing an I/O controller which maintains an uninterrupted protocol connection Local drive presence is provided for local and remote drives by maintaining a plurality of uninterrupted protocol connections between a plurality of I/O controllers and a plurality of device interfaces through which peripheral bus commands are transmitted. Preferabl... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7373390 | Disk subsystems and their integrated system An asynchronous remote copy system which can ensure the data renewal order and data integrity of the disk subsystems. The system provides for data mirroring by a main center having a gateway and a remote center having a gateway, and storage systems in each center co... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370104 | Computer system managing an access to a storage system The Computer System consists of components including more than one Computer and Storage Subsystem to which more than one Computer are connected. The Storage Subsystem is equipped with more than one Storage Unit, Management Table registering information to manage Sto... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370228 | Data processing system and copy processing method thereof The invention is a copy processing technique in a data processing system, which can simultaneously achieve long-distance communication and no data loss when disaster occurs. Among a production site, a local site, and a remote site, long-distance remote copying from ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369902 | Slave units and network system as well as slave unit processing method and device information collecting method A network system is constructed by connecting a safety PLC constituting a master unit and safety slaves 2 to each other through a safety network 3. The safety slaves each have a device information storage unit 25 for storing individual informati... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363572 | Editing outbound TCP frames and generating acknowledgements A method and apparatus for editing outbound frames and generating acknowledgements for a TCP connection is described. Acknowledgements are automatically generated and included in outbound frames during data transmissions with minimal processor intervention. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363396 | Supercharge message exchanger A system with a first random access memory (RAM), a second RAM, a first processor coupled to the first RAM and a second processor coupled to the second RAM. The first RAM is configured to store input/output (I/O) completions from at least two engines. The second RAM... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360044 | Storage system with primary mirror shadow A storage system with primary mirror shadow comprises a storage array, and a controller. The controller is capable of predefining storage array volumes as a primary volume that is subsequently paired with a secondary volume, emulating a primary logical device and a ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349980 | Network publish/subscribe system incorporating Web services network routing architecture Methods, apparatuses, and systems facilitating the deployment, configuration and maintenance of publication/subscription systems within the context of Web service networks. In one embodiment, the present invention provides Web services network system that presents a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350065 | Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a remote power reset at a remote server through a network connection A method, apparatus and program storage device for performing a remote power reset at a remote server through a network connection is disclosed. A power reset procedure is pinned to memory at a remote server. The remote server listens for a call specifying the power... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346051 | Slave device, master device and stacked device A stacked device is disclosed which is easily manufactured while identifying a plurality of devices that are stacked in the stacked device. The stacked device includes a stack of a plurality of slave devices and a master device having identical terminal arrangements... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343152 | Method and apparatus for reducing bandwidth use in a portable device A method and apparatus for reducing bandwidth use in a portable device is provided. A method of using a storage module in a device comprises receiving data in the device and identifying a code in the data. The method further comprises replacing the code in the data ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328263 | Controlling access of concurrent users of computer resources in a distributed system using an improved semaphore counting approach A method of controlling concurrent users of a distributed resource on a network is disclosed. In one aspect, there are one or more local lock managers executing on corresponding hosts and cooperating as a distributed lock manager. The resource is limited to a maximu... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328298 | Apparatus and method for controlling I/O between different interface standards and method of identifying the apparatus According to the present invention, an input/output controller connected between an interface connection port of an information processing apparatus and a network device so as to connect the information processing apparatus and a network includes an identification n... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321367 | Arrangement and method for spatial visualization An apparatus for image data computation and for synchronous data output. An arrangement for producing and reproducing two partial light images which together can be perceived as a light image having a three-dimensional effect. A method of synchronous reproduction of... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313598 | Method and apparatus for partial replication of directory information in a distributed environment A method is disclosed for partially replicating directory information from a master directory server to one or more distributed directory servers. Distributed directory servers are established in a network that partially replicates master directory information from ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313148 | Method and system for TCP large segment offload with ack-based transmit scheduling A method and system for offloading the transmission of large blocks of data from Transmission Control Protocol residing on a transmitting host computer to an intelligent network interface card (NIC) that schedules and performs transmittals. The NIC receives a pointe... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313578 | Method and apparatus for cascading data through redundant data storage units A data storage facility for transferring data from a data altering apparatus, such as a production data processing site to a remote data receiving site. The data storage facility includes a first data store for recording each change in the data generated by the data... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296061 | Distributed web services network architecture Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating deployment, configuration and maintenance of web services networks. The present invention features a distributed web services network architecture that, in one embodiment, leverages the functionality of existing network ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296122 | Flexible probe/probe response routing for maintaining coherency A computer system may include multiple processing nodes, one or more of which may be coupled to separate memories which may form a distributed memory system. The processing nodes may include caches, and the computer system may maintain coherency between the caches a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290045 | Method and apparatus for managing a storage area network including a self-contained storage system A storage area network (SAN) system that includes a self-contained storage system is managed by a three-tier management system. Management of the self-contained storage system and data services for that system is provided by a three-tiered dedicated management syste... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290277 | Control of authentication data residing in a network device A system for supporting management operations associated with an interconnect device includes a port of the interconnect device to maintain authentication data that facilitates authorization of a management operation and a configuration switch coupled to the port to... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281062 | Virtual SCSI bus for SCSI-based storage area network A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI com... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7269646 | Method for coupling storage devices of cluster storage In a cluster storage system, storage areas scattered in a plurality of storage nodes are coupled into a single storage area for access by a host computer. The cluster storage system has a first storage node and a second storage node, each of which has a disk and a c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269630 | Automatically switching shared remote devices in a dense server environment thereby allowing the remote devices to function as a local device A method, system and computer program product for automatically switching remote shared devices in a dense server environment. A device driver in a server blade may be configured to receive a request to access a shared device from the server blade and issue a query ... | 09/11/2007 |
