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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100027401 | RUN LENGTH LIMITED ENCODING OF DATA INTO A 5X5 MATRIX FOR RECORDING INTO A HOLOGRAPHIC MEDIUM Holographic recording drives encode data for recording into a holographic medium. The steps comprise run length limited encoding three bytes of data into 5×5 matrix information, the data subject to a 4-byte error correction code; and providing the 5×5 matrix informati... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090327340 | System and Method for Managing Data Using a Hierarchical Metadata Management System A system and associated method for managing data using a hierarchical metadata management system (HMMS). First, storing each pointer of at least one pointer in a metadata object wherein said pointer resides in a first repository, each unique file resides in a second rep... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319532 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING REMOTE STORAGE A method of managing remote storage sets retention grace period, an archive retention period, and a backup retention period all equal to the same time period. In response to receiving a request to migrate a file to remote storage by any one of HSM, archive, or backup, t... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090310462 | FRUSTUM-SHAPED HOLOGRAPHIC DISC AND MATCHING TRAY IN A HOLOGRAPHIC DRIVE A holographic disc comprises a multilayer right-circular frustum. The frustum includes a substrate layer having an inner surface and an outer surface. A reflective track layer is formed on the inner surface of the substrate layer. A first gap layer overlies the reflecti... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090278654 | Method of and System for Controlling Access to an Automated Media Library A method of controlling access to an automated media library receives a request for access to the library from an individual having an identity. Access may include importing media to the library, exporting media from the library, and opening a locked door to a cabinet c... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282461 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN AUTOMATED MEDIA LIBRARY A method of controlling access to an automated media library receives a request for access to the library from an individual having an identity. Access may include importing media to the library, exporting media from the library, and opening a locked door to a cabinet c... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282203 | MANAGING STORAGE AND MIGRATION OF BACKUP DATA A method and system for client backup data management and storage using virtual tape libraries (VTLs). A VTL controller executing a software method receives metadata that distinguishes among a plurality of different versions of backup data. The VTL controller determines... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090268568 | Portable data storage assembly having a holographic data storage layer and an optical tracking layer A portable data storage assembly, comprising a holographic data storage layer, and an optical tracking layer comprising addressing information for the holographic data storage layer, wherein that addressing information defines a first storage band comprising a first plu... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271659 | RAID REBUILD USING FILE SYSTEM AND BLOCK LIST This embodiment (a system) addresses and reduces the RAID build time by only rebuilding the used blocks and omitting the unused blocks. This starts after a disk drive from a RAID system is failed and replaced and storage controller starts the process of rebuilding the d... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090254645 | SERVER-MANAGED POWER SAVING METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TAPE LIBRARIES AND DRIVES A system of controlling tape drives within a tape drive library where a backup server utilizes client backup schedules and pending client restore requests to efficiently control the powering on and off of tape drives within a tape drive library.... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090249255 | Method of and System for Adaptive Suggestion of Directories When Saving Files A method of adaptively suggesting directories when saving files receives a request to save a file. The file has a file name and the file was prepared with an application. If a portion of the file name and the application with which the file was prepared are associated i... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090249474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE SECURITY LEVEL OF A REMOVABLE MEDIUM A method of adjusting a security level of a removable medium, including receiving a unique identification (ID) of a removable medium, a name of a file being processed, and a requested operation, determining the security level of the removable medium, determining a secur... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090243800 | MEDIA PASSPORT SYSTEM A media passport system including a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder attached to a removable medium a plurality of RFID readers installed in rooms, wherein each RFID reader has a unique identification (ID), and a security server connected to the plurali... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090234870 | ORDERING COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION OF DATA Data that is to be deduplicated and compressed is received. The data is compressed then deduplicated to generate first compressed then deduplicated data. The data is deduplicated then compressed to generate first deduplicated then compressed data. The first compressed t... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090234795 | LIMITING DEDUPLCATION BASED ON PREDETERMINED CRITERIA Data for deduplication is received. The received data is deduplicated if selected conditions corresponding to the deduplication are satisfied, wherein the selected conditions include a deduplication ratio, a data deduplication threshold, and a data quiescence measure. D... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090201782 | HOLOGRAPHIC DISK WITH OPTICAL-NOTCH-FILTER LABEL A holographic disk, including: a holographic recording layer and a servo-tracking layer, the holographic recording layer separated from the servo-tracking layer by a dichroic mirror that prevents a data I/O laser from accessing the servo-tracking layer while allowing a ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201243 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS INVOLVING DIURNAL COMPUTING A method for controlling a computer system comprising, determining an ambient light level, starting a lighting device operative to illuminate an input device responsive to determining that the ambient light level is below a threshold value, and stopping the lighting dev... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090196988 | HOLOGRAPHIC DISK WITH 2P TRACK-BEARING LAYER A method for forming a holographic storage media, including: applying a liquid photopolymer to a substrate of glass, quartz, or polycarbonate, the substrate having a first surface; engaging a stamper with a negative of desired tracks on the liquid photopolymer; curing t... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090196144 | Method and System for Command-Ordering and Command-Execution Within a Command Group for a Disk-to-Disk-to-Holographic Data Storage System A system, method and computer program product for managing command ordering and command execution for a host-Disk-to-intermediate-Disk-to-Holographic (D2D2H) data storage system. Specifically, a command ordering and execution (COE) utility selects the command group from... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090196143 | Method and System for Command-Ordering for a Disk-to-Disk-to-Holographic Data Storage System A system, method and computer program product for managing command ordering for a host-Disk-to-intermediate-Disk-to-Holographic (D2D2H) data storage system. Specifically, a command ordering detects a command from a host system. A hologram segment associated with the det... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090199026 | Saving energy based on storage classes with corresponding power saving policies An example of the invention classifies disks drives based on their purpose and associating power-saving policies in multiple classes. The system implements Power On Demand, where a reduced power mode is enabled for every individual component of a storage subsystem. In a... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090196139 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND FAST-SEARCHING UNITS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION IN VOLUME, OPTICAL-STORAGE DISKS An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to locate a group of units of digital information in a volume, optical-storage disk. The apparatus includes a first optical recording layer, a second optical recording layer, and an optical disk reading sled. The first opti... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090190674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO INJECT NOISE IN A NETWORK SYSTEM An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for injecting noise onto a link of a network. The apparatus, system, and method include, providing a noise injector card, connecting the noise injector card to the link, receiving a control signal to activate the noise inje... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090182777 | Automatically Managing a Storage Infrastructure and Appropriate Storage Infrastructure With the present invention means are provided for automatically managing a storage infrastructure with a plurality of storage components in compliance with consumer service level objectives (SLOs). Therefore, the claimed method comprises: automated identification of ava... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090077099 | Method and Infrastructure for Storing Application Data in a Grid Application and Storage System A grid application and storage system to enhance data access. The grid application and storage system comprises a plurality of grid application storage nodes with at least one storage system, said grid application storage nodes being remote to each other and connected v... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090070539 | Automated File Recovery Based on Subsystem Error Detection Results The present invention provides a method and system for performing file recovery in a computer system coupled to a storage subsystem, wherein a data scrubbing process analyzes said storage subsystem for potential or existing storage errors. The method includes: receiving... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090059757 | Monitoring and Analyzing the Storage Quality and the Drive Hardware Performance of a Media Library A method and infrastructure are provided for monitoring and analyzing the storage media quality and the drive hardware performance of a media library. The media library comprises a plurality of removable storage media, a plurality of drive units for said storage media a... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090063410 | Method for Performing Parallel Data Indexing Within a Data Storage System A method for performing parallel data indexing within a data storage system is disclosed. After the receipt of a group of data objects, the data objects are copied to an indexing module. Next, the copy of data objects within the indexing module are indexed by the indexi... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090048798 | Method for Performing Write Calibrations on Holographic Storage Media A method for performing write calibrations on holographic storage media is disclosed. Initially, five identical and known calibration holograms are written on a holographic storage medium, in which three of the five calibration holograms are written with different laser... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090043880 | CREDIT DEPLETION NOTIFICATION FOR TRANSMITTING FRAMES BETWEEN A PORT PAIR Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for credit depletion notification for transmitting frames between a port pair. Credits indicate a number of outstanding frames a first device may transmit to a second device. The credits are decremented in respon... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090041057 | PERFORMING A RECOVERY ACTION IN RESPONSE TO A CREDIT DEPLETION NOTIFICATION Provided are a method, system, and program for managing communication between a first device and a second device and performing a recovery action at the second device in response to a credit depletion notification from the first device. The second device assigns credits... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090010089 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO STORE INFORMATION IN A HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE MEDIUM A method is disclosed to store information in a holographic data storage medium. The method supplies a holographic data storage medium and provides information. The method defines an Active storage portion for the holographic data storage medium and establishes a thresh... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090002786 | DIRECTORY HOLOGRAM FORMING AN ANCHOR LOCATION OF A PATTERN OF STORED HOLOGRAMS A holographic storage drive and control of a holographic storage system are configured to write at least a group of holograms in a predetermined pattern in the holographic storage medium, and to write a directory hologram which relates to the holograms of the group to f... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090006891 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Hard Disk Drive Redundancy An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for hard disk drive redundancy. A demarcation module demarks a parity data block in each set of a specified number of data blocks on a hard disk drive. An association module associates a PBA of each un-demarked data block w... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090003179 | DIRECTORY HOLOGRAM FORMING AN ANCHOR LOCATION OF A PATTERN OF STORED HOLOGRAMS A method writes at least a group of holograms in a predetermined pattern in the holographic storage medium, and writes a directory hologram which relates to the holograms of the group to form an anchor location of the predetermined pattern. Further, a directory comprisi... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090002788 | VERIFICATION OF DATA STORAGE HOLOGRAMS A holographic storage drive of a holographic data storage system is configured to write and read holograms with respect to a plurality of locations of a holographic storage medium; and a control is configured to operate the holographic storage drive to write a known ima... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080259765 | ARRANGING AND DESTAGING DATA TO HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE Data for storage by holographic data storage is arranged in an intermediate data storage as data segments which are replicas of holographic storage segments. Files of data are aggregated into the data segments, and a destaging control determines the destaging of the dat... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080259418 | DELETE RECYCLING OF HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE Data hologram recycling systems, methods and computer program products are configured to arrange data for storage in the intermediate data storage as data segments which are replicas of holographic storage segments for destaging to the holographic data storage, and to d... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080259764 | ARRANGING AND DESTAGING DATA TO HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE Data for storage by holographic data storage is arranged in an intermediate data storage as data segments which are replicas of holographic storage segments. Files of data are aggregated into the data segments, and a destaging control determines the destaging of the dat... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080253273 | Computer Program Product for Controlling an Apparatus for Accessing Dual-Path Optical Recording Media A dual-path optical recording medium and an apparatus for accessing such are disclosed. The dual-path optical recording medium includes a substrate, an intermediate recording layer, a holographic recording layer and a dichronic mirror layer. The intermediate recording l... | 10/16/2008 |
