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7620710 System and method for performing multi-path storage operations  
Systems and methods for allocating transmission resources within a computer network are provided. In some embodiments of the invention, communication links may be assigned based on predefined...
7620671 Delegation of metadata management in a storage system by leasing of free file system blocks from a file system owner  
Metadata management in a file server or storage network is delegated from a primary data processor to a secondary data processor in order to reduce data traffic between the primary data processor...
7620670 Storage system  
At least two devices having different characteristics are provided as one file system, and the file system stores a file in a device according to the file purpose. In file system operation, a...
7617264 Parallel remembered-set processing respecting popular-object detection  
A garbage collector that operates in multiple threads divides a generation of a garbage-collected heap into heap sections, with which it associates respective remembered sets of locations where...
7617263 Method and computer-readable medium for providing an official file repository  
A method and computer-readable medium are provided for storing files in an official file repository. According to the method, a generic interface is exposed that includes a first method for...
7617260 Data set version counting in a mixed local storage and remote storage environment  
Provided are techniques for storing local versions of a data set. A first number that indicates how many local versions of the data set are to be stored in local storage given an amount of...
7617249 Method and system of handling document operation requests on documents having large collections with constrained memory  
A method and system of handling document operation requests on documents with large collections and constrained memory is disclosed. In some embodiments, when one or more collection elements of a...
7617222 Transferring data and storing metadata across a network  
Data is now able to be transferred back and forth between computer systems which have disparate file systems, e.g., between a computer having a hierarchical file system and a computer having a...
7613727 Method and apparatus for supporting advanced coding formats in media files  
Switch sample metadata defining switch sample sets associated with multimedia data is created. Each switch sample set includes samples that have identical decoding values. Further, a file...
7613689 Methods and systems for managing data  
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is...
7613682 Statistics collection using path-identifiers for relational databases  
Disclosed are a method for collecting statistics associated with data in a database. The method comprises determining an amount of memory needed to collect statistics for data associated with a...
7610579 Critical finalizers  
A finalizer may include a notification that no tolerance for failure or corruption is expected. Any potential failure point, which may be induced by a runtime execution environment routine or...
7610302 Modifying table definitions within a database application  
Methods, systems, and computer program products modify a table definition of a database table within a database application. A method involves providing a user interface for creating a new field in...
7610147 Map data processing unit  
A map data processing unit includes a batch update section and dynamic update section. A type of update data fed from an update data input section is decided using header information. If the update...
7606871 System and method for virtualizing network storages into a single file system view  
A virtualizing file system view method for virtualizing one or more network storage devices into a virtualized file system view network storage system wherein destination network storage...
7606846 Managing large OLAP in an analytical context  
A large report management system manages a large Online Analytic Processing (OLAP) report. The system segments a set of members of interest for an OLAP report to define one or more segments, and...
7606838 Distributed conflict resolution for replicated databases  
One or more resolution processes run concurrently with the synchronization process of each replica, in response to detection of one or more synchronization conflicts. Each resolution process works...
7606836 Methods for efficient data version verification  
Methods for efficiently determining and managing version information associated with sets of data objects, persistently storing the version information, and utilizing the stored version information...
7603389 Optimized statement caching for transaction replay  
Transactions are replicated from a source database to a target database in a data replication system. The system includes a first memory location that persistently stores statement text associated...
7603387 Techniques to manage media files  
Techniques to manage media files may be described. An apparatus may comprise a media processing sub-system having a processor, a memory, and a communications interface. The memory may store a media...
7603386 Systems and methods for managing location of media in a storage system  
A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a...
7603359 Method and apparatus for maintaining federated name context bindings in a name space  
A method, system and computer program product for maintaining federated name context bindings in a name space is disclosed. A reference within a first name space of a first system is bound with a...
7603310 Parallelization command driven data handling  
A data processing system and method is provided for managing futures contracts that are based on baskets of credit default swaps as underlyings. A data storage stores data identifying each credit...
7603026 Information processing method and information processing apparatus  
This invention provides an information processing method and apparatus, which can set all extent sizes of data divisionally recorded on a disk to be equal to or larger than the minimum recording...
7599972 File system having variable logical storage block size  
A system is set forth that includes a processor, a data storage device that accessible by the processor, and filesystem software that executable by the processor to organize files on the data...
7599949 Database management system and method for maintaining a database in a range sensitive manner  
A system and method is provided for inserting an ascending or descending sequence of data records into a database table represented by a tree structure. A search is performed to locate a node of...
7596588 Managing files to be offloaded by multiple users into a common storage repository  
A method, system and program product manage files to be offloaded by multiple users into a common storage repository. A request is received from a user to offload a file from a computer. A...
7596569 Method and program for space-efficient representation of objects in a garbage-collected system  
A system includes a processor for executing a collector program to perform a method (e.g., a method of collection). The method includes using an object model during a collection phase that is...
7593975 File system defragmentation technique to reallocate data blocks if such reallocation results in improved layout  
A defragmentation technique determines the extent to which data blocks of a file are fragmented on disks of a computer and, in response, efficiently relocates those blocks if such relocation...
7593922 Method and system for providing delivery of segmented data files  
A method for providing delivery of segmented data files including a method for providing distributed delivery of segmented data files. The method includes receiving a request to send a data file to...
7590672 Identification of fixed content objects in a distributed fixed content storage system  
This disclosure describes identification of fixed content objects in a distributed fixed content storage system. Unique object identifiers are assigned in a distributed object storage system which...
7590666 Predicting capacity consumption in a memory component  
Techniques and technologies are provided for predicting when remaining storage capacity of a memory component will be fully consumed. For example, the remaining storage capacity of the memory...
7587573 System and computer program product for shrinking a file system  
Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for shrinking a file system in a data processing system. A computer implemented method for shrinking a file system in a data...
7587436 Method and system for executing directory-basis migration in a global name space  
There has never been disclosed a method of executing migration on a fine-grained basis than a file system basis in a manner that is transparent to clients in a storage system with a plurality of...
7584230 Method, systems and computer program products for monitoring files  
A method for monitoring files including receiving a folder including at least one file path specifying a server machine and a directory. For one or more of the file paths in the folder, a query is...
7584229 Method and system for priority-based allocation in a storage pool  
A method for priority-based allocation in a storage pool involves receiving a request to write a data item in the storage pool, where the storage pool includes multiple metaslabs, and where each of...
7584226 System and method for peer-to-peer grid based autonomic and probabilistic on-demand backup and restore  
A system and method for peer-to-peer grid based autonomic and probabilistic on-demand trackless backup and restore are disclosed. The on-demand trackless backup-restore system includes a plurality...
7584220 System and method for determining target failback and target priority for a distributed file system  
A system and method for organizing and sorting targets received in a referral response and for realizing a target fail-back and a target priority policy in a distributed file system is provided. In...
7584219 Incremental non-chronological synchronization of namespaces  
Described are mechanisms and techniques for enabling incremental non-chronological synchronization of namespaces. In an environment, entities must have unique names within a namespace and entities...
7584209 Flexible file format for updating an address book  
Mechanisms for updating an address book. A first computing system generates an address book update file format and provides the file to a second computing system. The file format contains several...
7584198 Data storage  
A method of storing a data set on a storage device carrying a file of random data comprising the steps of: selecting, in dependence on a user input passphrase, a first location within the file of...
7584190 Data files systems with hierarchical ranking for different activity groups  
A data processing unit including a data network, a file server integrated into the data network and having a separate data memory for the server and wherein at least one primary data file system,...
7581250 System, computer program product and method of selecting sectors of a hard disk on which to perform a virus scan  
A system, computer program product and method of selecting sectors of a disk on which to perform a virus scan are provided. Initially, all data in all sectors of a disk is scanned for viruses....
7580952 Automatic digital image grouping using criteria based on image metadata and spatial information  
An automatic digital image grouping system and method for automatically generating groupings of related images based on criteria that includes image metadata and spatial information. The system and...
7580951 User-localizable hierarchical lists  
The present invention provides a method and system for user-localizable hierarchical lists. Users can create different representations for values displayed within the hierarchical list. For...
7577694 Database management system with rebalance architectures  
A database system for storing table data as divided in a plurality of storages has a processing request acceptance section and an execution section which, at the time of rebalancing already stored...
7577693 Performing multiple actions on a spool file by assigning a particular action to be performed on each segment of the spool file  
A method, computer program product and system for performing multiple actions on a single spool file. A Portable Document Format (PDF) server (PDF server is a component of a print server)...
7577692 System and method for reserving space to guarantee file writability in a file system supporting persistent consistency point images  
The present invention provides a system and method for reserving space to guarantee file writability in a file system supporting PCPIs. An administrator of a storage system implants a set of space...
7577690 Managing checkpoint queues in a multiple node system  
Techniques are provided for managing caches in a system with multiple caches that may contain different copies of the same data item. Specifically, techniques are provided for coordinating the...
7577688 Systems and methods for transparent movement of file services in a clustered environment  
Systems and methods transparently move a file service in a clustered environment of storage filers. A first storage filer generates file service data for the file service. The first storage filer...