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US-7,536,527 Data-migration method
A method of migrating data from an old storage subsystem to a new storage subsystem in a data processing system which comprises host computers and storage...
US-7,536,526 Hierarchical state based migration of structured data
The present invention provides a method for hierarchical state based migration of data. The method includes determining one or more constraints and/or global...
US-7,536,525 Virtual machine hot cloning including freezing and unfreezing memory in a distributed network
A system and method for hot cloning in a distributed network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for cloning a virtual machine from a source system to a...
US-7,536,524 Method and system for providing restricted access to a storage medium
A method of restricting file access is disclosed wherein a set of file write access commands are determined from data stored within a storage medium. The set of...
US-7,536,523 Point in time remote copy for multiple sites
A method for copying data to multiple remote sites includes transmitting data from a first volume in a primary storage system to a back-up volume provided in a...
US-7,536,522 Computer system for copying data between virtual storage areas
It has been impossible in prior art to copy every piece of data that is stored in a virtual volume. A management computer of this invention receives a copy...
US-7,536,521 Computer storage device providing implicit detection of block liveness
A disk drive or similar storage medium uses a semantic understanding of its associated file system to monitor file metadata and derive block liveness normally...
US-7,536,520 Method and apparatus for native method invocation and changing memory bank
A method and apparatus for native method invocation and changing memory bank. A method return frame of a smart card stores the status of a native method...
US-7,536,519 Memory access control apparatus and method for accomodating effects of signal delays caused by load
A memory controller determines a load level based on the number of connected memory devices informed by a switch or the like. If it is determined that the load...
US-7,536,518 Scalable disc array unit, and management method and management program for a scalable disc array unit
A disc array unit manages a shared memory as a plurality of shared memory blocks, each including a group of cache pages, performs cache control on these cache...
US-7,536,517 Direct-update software transactional memory
A transactional memory programming interface allows a thread to directly and safely access one or more shared memory locations within a transaction while...
US-7,536,516 Shared memory device
A shared memory device capable of simplifying wiring to a memory, preventing a decline of performance due to an increase of the area and long wiring, and...
US-7,536,515 Repeated conflict acknowledgements in a cache coherency protocol
In a cache coherency protocol multiple conflict phases may be utilized to resolve a data request conflict condition. The multiple conflict phases may avoid...
US-7,536,514 Early return indication for read exclusive requests in shared memory architecture
An early return indication is used to notify a first communications interface, prior to a response being received from any of a plurality of sources coupled to a...
US-7,536,513 Data processing system, cache system and method for issuing a request on an interconnect fabric without...
In response to a master receiving a memory access request indicating a target address, the master accesses a first cache directory of an upper level cache of a...
US-7,536,512 Method and apparatus for space efficient identification of candidate objects for eviction from a large cache
The eviction candidate sorting tool (ECST) is used with existing eviction algorithms that utilize a database for tracking objects stored in a cache. Rather than...
US-7,536,511 CPU mode-based cache allocation for image data
An apparatus includes a central processing unit having an output to provide a status indicator, a graphics controller having an output coupleable to a display...
US-7,536,510 Hierarchical MRU policy for data cache
A cache read request is received at a cache comprising a plurality of data arrays, each of the data arrays comprising a plurality of ways. Cache line data from...
US-7,536,509 Method for fetching data from a non-volatile memory in an integrated circuit and corresponding integrated circuit
The method uses an integrated circuit comprising a processor (603), a non-volatile memory (602), especially a flash memory, a system clock and an interface...
US-7,536,508 System and method for sharing SATA drives in active-active RAID controller system
An active-active RAID system includes first and second active-active RAID controllers which efficiently share access to SATA drives. SAS expanders connect the...
US-7,536,507 Methods, systems, and computer program products for preserving atomic writes using leaves and bitmaps
Methods, systems, and computer program products for preserving atomic writes to disk arrays are disclosed. According to one method, portions of a file are stored...
US-7,536,506 RAID controller using capacitor energy source to flush volatile cache data to non-volatile memory during main...
A write-caching RAID controller is disclosed. The controller includes a CPU that manages transfers of posted-write data from host computers to a volatile memory...
US-7,536,505 Storage system and method for controlling block rearrangement
A fragmentation information collecting section in a file system control section collects fragmentation information on a target volume for which a fragmentation...
US-7,536,504 Online storage medium transfer rate characteristics determination
A method for determining storage medium transfer rate characteristics. A host computer system issues a sequence of read commands to a storage medium to determine...
US-7,536,503 Methods and systems for preserving disk geometry when migrating existing data volumes
Methods and systems for preserving a disk geometry when relabeling a storage device containing data migrated from a previous data storage device having different...
US-7,536,502 Controller device to be connected to IEEE 1394 serial bus
When the user instructs deletion of all program files using a remote control, a microprocessor of a set-top box repeats transmission of a deletion command with...
US-7,536,501 Apparatus and method to manage one or more reserved volume serial numbers in a virtual library grid
An apparatus and method are disclosed to manage one or more reserved volume serial numbers in a virtual library grid. The method supplies a virtual library grid...
US-7,536,500 Header blocks for flash memory writes
Embodiments of header management for a file system of flash memory are presented herein. In one or more implementations, a data write is performed using a header...
US-7,536,499 Memory access control device and processing system having same
A memory access control device enabling freer access from a plurality of ports to a plurality of memories and a processing system having the same are provided....
US-7,536,498 Method and apparatus for address mapping
A method and apparatus for address mapping are provided, wherein the method sets a first address region that is accessible by a processor when a system is booted...
US-7,536,497 Device and method for performing multi-function using unique port in wireless terminal
Disclosed is a device and method for performing a multi-function using a unique port in a wireless terminal capable of performing a multimedia function using the...
US-7,536,496 Method and apparatus for transmitting data in an integrated circuit
A method and apparatus for transmitting data between cores residing in an integrated circuit. Data is transmitted by using hubs located between the cores and an...
US-7,536,495 Certified memory-to-memory data transfer between active-active raid controllers
A system for performing an efficient mirrored posted-write operation having first and second RAID controllers in communication via a PCI-Express link is...
US-7,536,494 Expandable slave device system with buffered subsystems
A system includes a first bus, a master device coupled to the first bus, and one or more subsystems coupled to the first bus. A respective subsystem includes a...
US-7,536,493 Method and apparatus for identifying a service processor with current setting information
The aspects of the present invention provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer usable program code for identifying a service processor...
US-7,536,492 Apparatus, system, and method for automatically resetting an inter-integrated circuit bus
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for resetting an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus slave. A data line resistor in series is provided with a data...
US-7,536,491 System, method and apparatus for multiple-protocol-accessible OSD storage subsystem
An apparatus, system, and method enable access to a storage system by distinguishing SCSI Object-Based Storage Device Commands (OSD) commands from block-based...
US-7,536,490 Method for link bandwidth management
A method for link bandwidth management between two devices in communication through a bandwidth-adjustable bus in a computer system determines which of a speed...
US-7,536,489 Information processing system for determining payload size based on packet-to-payload size ratio
An information processing system includes a high-speed serial bus that transmits and receives data independently over communication channels via a...
US-7,536,488 Buffer controller and management method thereof
The invention provides a new linked structure for a buffer controller and management method thereof. The allocation and release actions of buffer memory can be...
US-7,536,487 Low power memory hierarchy for high performance video processor
An apparatus generally having an internal memory and an external transfer circuit is disclosed. The internal memory may be disposed on a chip and may contain at...
US-7,536,486 Automatic protocol determination for portable devices supporting multiple protocols
In accordance with certain aspects of the automatic protocol determination for portable devices supporting multiple protocols, a portable device detects which...
US-7,536,485 Processor having inactive state of operation and method thereof
Embodiments of the present invention provide a processor having an inactive state of operation and methods thereof. The processor, according to some...
US-7,536,484 System for setting the operating voltage of disk array enclosures in a data storage device
A data storage system includes a host, diplex logic receiving a first, low frequency signal and a second, high frequency signal from the host and injecting the...
US-7,536,483 Computer system having analog and digital video signal output functionality, and computer device and video...
A video signal transmitting device having analog and digital video signal output functionality is adapted to transmit a video signal, and has a cable unit, a...
US-7,536,482 Methods and devices for enabling a mobile network device to select a foreign agent
Method and devices are provided for enabling a mobile network device to select a foreign agent from among a plurality of foreign agents that are transmitting...
US-7,536,481 Method and system for re-synchronizing end points when an intermediary detects that the end points may be...
A synchronization system establishes a session between a client end point and a server end point via an intermediary server of a server pool. When messages sent...
US-7,536,480 System and method for transferring a compressed data file to a peripheral device
An image passthrough extension structure and method facilitating the transfer of compressed data image files from a software application to a device via the...
US-7,536,479 Local and remote network based management of an operating system-independent processor
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving one or more packets that are addressed to an alternate IP (Internet...
US-7,536,478 Method and apparatus for opening and launching a web browser in response to an audible signal
The present invention disclosed and claimed herein comprises a system and method for launching a web browser on a network comprising a computer having an all new...
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