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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 8001356 | Methods and apparatus for reallocating addressable spaces within memory devices Integrated circuit systems include a non-volatile memory device (e.g, flash EEPROM device) and a memory processing circuit. The memory processing circuit is electrically coupled to the non-volatile memory device. The memory processing circuit is configured to reallo... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001357 | Providing a single drive letter user experience and regional based access control with respect to a storage device A method and a storage device may be provided. The storage device may include physical storage subdivided into a number of regions. The regions may start and end based on logical block addresses specified in a region table. At least one of the regions may be mapped ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996644 | Fair sharing of a cache in a multi-core/multi-threaded processor by dynamically partitioning of the cache An apparatus and method for fairly accessing a shared cache with multiple resources, such as multiple cores, multiple threads, or both are herein described. A resource within a microprocessor sharing access to a cache is assigned a static portion of the cache and a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987336 | Reducing power-on time by simulating operating system memory hot add This invention generally provides a method for speeding up system boot time, by initializing a subset of memory during the system firmware test/initialization, and allowing the system to boot an operating system with this subset of installed memory. While the system... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984262 | Data transmission for partition migration A method, apparatus, and program product manage data during a logical partition migration. Data from a source logical partition is transformed into partition state records by a source migration services partition. The records are transmitted to a target migration se... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975124 | System and method for distributed partitioned library mapping A system and method of media library access that utilizes distributed mapping of media library partitions. A first controller can be connected to a data transport element of a media library and a second controller can be connected to a media changer of the media lib... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971025 | Method and apparatus for chunk allocation in a thin provisioning storage system Physical storage space in a storage system is not allocated to a segment of a targeted volume until the segment of the volume is first targeted for storing write data. When write data is received, the storage system determines whether the targeted volume is designat... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958484 | Affinity-based clustering of vectors for partitioning the columns of a matrix A method for partitioning the columns of a matrix A. The method includes providing the matrix A in a memory device of a computer system. The matrix A has n columns and m rows, wherein n is an integer of at least 3, and wherein m is an integer of at least 1. The meth... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949850 | Methods and appratus for demand-based memory mirroring A method includes determining an amount of memory space in a memory device available for memory mirroring. The method further includes presenting the available memory space to an operating system. The method further includes selecting at least a portion of the amoun... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949849 | File system for a capture system A file system can be provided in a capture system to efficiently read and write captured objects. In one embodiment, such a file system includes a plurality of queues to queue captured objects to be written to a disk, each queue being associated with one of a plural... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945759 | Non-volatile memory and method with phased program failure handling In a memory with block management system, program failure in a block during a time-critical memory operation is handled by continuing the programming operation in a breakout block. Later, at a less critical time, the data recorded in the failed block prior to the in... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945758 | Storage array partitioning A storage array includes a plurality of directors, each having at least one processor thereon and a global memory distributed among the plurality of directors. A different portion of the global memory is provided on each of the directors. A interconnect fabric is co... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937551 | Storage systems having differentiated storage pools The systems and methods described herein include among other things, systems for providing a block level data storage service. More particularly, the systems and methods of the invention provide a block level data storage service that provides differentiated pools o... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937553 | Controlling virtual memory in a storage controller A storage controller of the present invention partitions and allocates a virtual memory area to each of a plurality of functions operating simultaneously. Microprocessors inside a higher-level communications controller can respectively execute a plurality of program... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937552 | Cache line reservations Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus in the form of a data processing system and a computer program product for cache line reservations. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises, dividing a memory into an u... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930511 | Method and apparatus for management between virtualized machines and virtualized storage systems To manage physical paths between a server system and a storage system and information about routing between virtual machines and virtual storage systems in an integrated fashion. A computer system of the present invention includes: a computer and a storage system th... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921273 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for copying storage. Data sent from a first storage unit is synchronously copied at a second storage unit. The copied data is sent asynchronously from the second storage unit to a third storage unit. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913054 | Digital electronic device capable of memory formatting, a method of memory formatting, digital electronic device having a function of storing and method for storing thereof A digital electronic device capable of memory formatting, a method for memory formatting, and a digital electronic device having a storing function and a storing method thereof are provided. The memory stores data, and the control unit formats the memory such that t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904691 | Autonomically adjusting one or more computer program configuration settings when resources in a logical partition change A computer program communicates with a partition manager in the logical partition where the computer program is run. When resource allocation in the logical partition dynamically changes, the partition manager notifies the computer program of the configuration chang... | 03/08/2011 |
