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| 8190947 | Method and system for automatically constructing a replica catalog for maintaining protection relationship information between primary and secondary storage objects in a network storage system Embodiments of the present invention provide a technique for automatically constructing a replica catalog providing information otherwise unavailable due to a loss of or failure with the registry file for maintaining protection relationship information of primary an... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8181065 | Systems and methods for providing nonlinear journaling In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for nonlinear journaling. In one embodiment, groups of data designated for storage in a data storage unit are journaled into persistent storage. In one embodiment, the journal data is recorded nonlinearly. In one e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176364 | Method and system for providing high availability to computer applications A system and method for assigning application specific IP addresses to individual applications. The system may be operable to assign a unique IP address to an application, and alias the application IP address to a NIC IP address on the host where the application is ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176357 | System for handling storage system requests A file storage system that uses a server to communicate between a client and a storage system. The server receives a file storage request pertaining to a file, generates and stores a file record for the request and forwards the request to a file storage system. The ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161321 | Virtual machine-based on-demand parallel disaster recovery system and the method thereof Embodiments disclosed herein related to a virtual machine-based on-demand parallel disaster recovery system and a method thereof. By integrating context of processes of virtual machine, the system and method build a process tree related to applications and support t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161322 | Methods and apparatus to initiate a BIOS recovery Methods and apparatus to initiate a basic input/output system (BIOS) recovery are disclosed herein. An example BIOS recovery module includes a memory storing one or more signatures to be detected by a detector of a BIOS implemented on a computing platform; and a con... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156373 | System for disaster recovery backup and a method thereof Embodiments disclosed herein related to a system used for disaster recovery backup. The system converts the operating system in the system preparing for disaster recovery into a virtualized system which will be disaster-recovery-ready. The system includes: a device ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156375 | Techniques for efficient restoration of granular application data Techniques for efficient restoration of granular application data are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for restoring one or more portions of application data comprising virtualizing one or more backup file... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156374 | Problem management for outsized queues A system is provided for problem management for outsized queues. The system includes a computer readable storage medium comprising a management component stored as a set of computer instructions executable by a processor. The management component stops transmission ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151139 | Preventing data loss from restore overwrites Various methods and systems are presented to restore a logical data object from a backup to a working copy, in a manner that allows for the return of the working copy to a prior state of the working copy. One such method and system copies data to a restore backup of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145945 | Packet mirroring between primary and secondary virtualized software images for improved system failover performance Packet loss at a standby server during failover results when the primary fails. There is currently always some amount of packet traffic that is inbound to the primary that is lost during the failover interval. With existing solutions, this packet loss during failove... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145944 | Business process error handling through process instance backup and recovery According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for business process error handling through process instance backup and recovery includes the step of creating a backup profile of selected one or more portions of a business process model at modeling st... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145943 | State variable-based detection and correction of errors Embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for detecting errors in a computation using state variables. In various embodiments, corrections of the errors through the state variables are also provided. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may be used for... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140895 | Method and system for recovering SIP transaction A method and system for recovering a SIP transaction. The method including monitoring an event related to transaction change; recording information related to the event; and regenerating a transaction by use of the recorded information upon failover. A system is als... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140894 | Transaction regions in graphical computer-implemented methods of processing data A method including: displaying operation icons representing operations to be performed, a user selecting and arranging the operation icons to define a flow of data between operations and to form a graphical representation of a process, the user specifying an operati... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135986 | Computer system, managing computer and recovery management method The invention provides a method for computing the appropriate capacity of a journal volume based on the operating patterns of backup and recovery performed by the user, and composing a recovery system that enables recovery to be performed in a short time using journ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135987 | Collection ordering for replicated state machines A replicated state machine with N replica servers may be configured to tolerate a count of F faults. A first operation (of a first ordering type) executes when a first quorum of correctly functioning replicas is available. A second operation (also of the first opera... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132047 | Restoring application upgrades using an application restore point Techniques are disclosed for creating an application restore point when an application is installed or updated and for restoring the application and other elements of a computing system modified by the installation and update processes to a state as they exist at th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127176 | TR-069 savepoints A method for improving the security of actions performed by Remote Procedure Calls RPC invoked during a TR-069 Remote Management Protocol session between an Auto-Configuration Server ACS and a Customer Premises Equipment CPE of a DSL telecommunication system. The TR... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127175 | High availability of JCA inflowed transactions Recovery of inflowed transactions are provided by any instance in a cluster, along with peer recovery of transactions in a cluster, and administrative functionality related to these aspects. A method of managing transaction processing comprises performing transactio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112664 | Using volume snapshots to prevent file corruption in failed restore operations Restore software executing in a computer system may invoke a snapshot of a target volume before restoring a plurality of files from a backup image to the target volume. If the restore operation fails before all the files are restored to the target volume then the re... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112671 | Method and apparatus for a programming language having fully undoable, timed reactive instructions A method and apparatus for providing an undoable programming language. More specifically the present invention relates to providing a fully undoable programming language, where the language includes a fully undoable core language portion and a conventional language ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112665 | Methods and systems for rapid rollback and rapid retry of a data migration Methods and systems for rapidly rolling back and retrying a data migration between a first and a second storage system. In one embodiment, upon receiving a request at a provisioning manager to perform a rollback of a first data migration, the first storage system me... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108722 | Method and system for providing high availability to distributed computer applications Method, system, apparatus and/or computer program for achieving transparent integration of high-availability services for distributed application programs. Loss-less migration of sub-programs from their respective primary nodes to backup nodes is performed transpare... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108721 | Architecture and method for hardware-assisted processor checkpointing and rollback A method to enable an adaptive fault tolerance in a data system is provided. The method includes communicatively coupling a radiation hardened hardware element to at least one interrupt service routine application in a respective at least one processing element, tri... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103909 | Automatic hardware-based recovery of a compromised computer In general, techniques are described for hardware-based detection and automatic restoration of a computing device from a compromised state. Moreover, the techniques provide for automatic, hardware-based restoration of selective software components from a trusted rep... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103908 | Method and system for recovery of a computing environment during pre-boot and runtime phases A method and system for recovery of a computing environment includes monitoring during a pre-boot phase and a runtime phase of a computing device for selection of a hot key sequence by a user and performing a recovery action in response to the selection of the hot k... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099625 | Self-checking and self-correcting internal configuration port circuitry Method and apparatus for self-checking and self-correcting memory states of a programmable resource is described. Programmable resource of an integrated circuit has a first core and a second core instantiated therein. A first internal configuration port and a second... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099626 | Recovery method management device, recovery method management method and computer product for recovering a failure of IT system A recovery method management method includes executing and completing a work on a work target of a system according to a work start command and a work completion command, creating working method information for each work target, acquiring before-work-start system in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095822 | Storage system and snapshot data preparation method in storage system The present invention is devised so that snapshot data preparation processing does not end abnormally as a result of the pool region becoming full with saved data from the primary logical volume during snapshot data preparation. When the CHA receives a snapshot data... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082468 | Method and system for providing coordinated checkpointing to a group of independent computer applications A system and method thereof for performing loss-less migration of an application group. In an exemplary embodiment, the system may include a high-availability services module structured for execution in conjunction with an operating system, and one or more computer ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078909 | Detecting file system layout discrepancies A template is received, the template comprising information describing an expected file system state. A discrepancy detection module compares an expected file system state from the template with an actual or requested state of the file system of a computer. If discr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078910 | Method and system for providing coordinated checkpointing to a group of independent computer applications A method and system of checkpointing single process application groups and multi-process application groups. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include creating at least one full checkpoint for each application in an application group, and creating at least ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073885 | Recording apparatus, file descriptor generation method, and program A recording apparatus includes a server, a client, a virtual device, a judgment section, and a regeneration section. The server executes an access to a storage medium as a service. The client includes processes that require the service. The virtual device is used to... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065561 | Method and apparatus for automating device recovery using device configuration information A method and apparatus for automating device recovery using device configuration information is described. In one embodiment, a method for restoring a configuration of a source device includes accessing device configuration information from memory associated with a ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055941 | System for on demand task optimization An apparatus and program product determine information indicative of a performance differential between operation of a computer with the standby resource activated and operation of the computer with the standby resource inactivated. The information is communicated t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051328 | Recovering from a system failure On or more techniques and/or systems are provided for rapidly resuming processing of client requests after a system failure event. Accordingly, during a boot-up process, a storage system, upon detecting a system failure event of the storage system, conditions its sy... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046633 | Improving data availability during failure detection and recovery processing in a shared resource system A system and method for managing shared resources is disclosed. The system includes a primary coherency processing unit which processes lock requests from a plurality of data processing hosts, the primary coherency processing unit also storing a first current lock s... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041994 | Asynchronous checkpointing with audits in high availability networks Example embodiments are directed to methods of ensuring high availability of a network using asynchronous checkpointing of application state data related to an object. Example embodiments include a method of asynchronous checkpointing application state data related ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037351 | Apparatus and methods for restoring system operation states A process for restoring an operational state of a portable handheld device is provided. The device may include multiple computing units and persistent storage. The operational state may be generated by a sequence of events. The operational state may receive signals ... | 10/11/2011 |
