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7360047 Storage system, redundancy control method, and program  
In a storage system allowing redundant writing, a technology is provided capable of achieving control including efficient return to redundancy while reducing load on a host and trouble for a user....
7356624 Interface between different clock rate components  
A circuit for interfacing between a first component 11 operating at a first clock rate and a second component 12 operating at a second clock rate, wherein the second clock rate is higher than...
7356641 Data management in flash memory  
A method is disclosed for emulating a disk drive on flash memory, thus enabling one or more file-systems to be resident on flash memory. A list of data structures is maintained corresponding to...
7356622 Method and apparatus for managing and formatting metadata in an autonomous operation conducted by a third party  
An apparatus, system, and method for managing and formatting data in an autonomous data transfer operation are provided. An initialization module is configured to prepare metadata corresponding to...
7356640 Storage apparatus and storage system  
The present invention manages the information of storage apparatuses inside a single storage apparatus in an integrated fashion, under a heterogeneous storage environment in which a variety of...
7353316 System and method for re-routing signals between memory system components  
A plurality of memory modules used in a computer system each include a memory hub that is connected to a plurality of memory devices. The memory modules are connected to each other in series so...
7353306 Storage controller redundancy using bi-directional reflective memory channel  
A bi-directional reflective memory channel between a pair of storage controllers is used to maintain a mirrored copy of each storage controller's native buffer contents within the buffer of the...
7353344 Storage device  
The present invention relates to a storage device which receives input of data of arbitrary data length, stores the data, and outputs the stored data in order of input. It provides a storage device...
7353299 Method and apparatus for managing autonomous third party data transfers  
An apparatus, system, and method for managing and formatting data in an autonomous data transfer operation are provided. An initialization module is configured to prepare metadata corresponding to...
7353358 System and methods for reporting storage utilization  
Storage arrays are subdivided into a plurality of physical and logical entities to provide a framework of the available storage. In a large SAN, the network of storage arrays may define a complex...
7353318 Apparatus and method to assign addresses to plurality of information storage devices  
A method is disclosed to assign addresses to a plurality of data storage devices. The method provides a switch and (N) data storage devices, where each of those (N) data storage devices is...
7350048 Memory system topology  
A memory system comprising router nodes. A plurality of router nodes are configured to route data between a memory controller and memory modules. The topology of the system comprises a hierarchy of...
7350030 High performance chipset prefetcher for interleaved channels  
The invention comprises an apparatus and method of prefetching from a memory device having interleaved channels. The chipset prefetcher comprises a stride detector to detect a stride in a stream, a...
7350029 Data stream prefetching in a microprocessor  
A method of prefetching data in a microprocessor includes identifying a data stream associated with a process and determining a depth associated with the data stream based upon prefetch factors...
7350039 Processing controller, data processor, processing controlling method, program thereof and recording medium storing the program  
A CPU 290 of a recording/reproducing device 200 acquires automatic video recording request information, and generates, based on EPG data previously acquired, new automatic reservation...
7348799 System and method for generating a trigger signal  
One disclosed embodiment may comprise an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC includes memory that stores condition data defining conditions for enabling transitions among a...
7350044 Data move method and apparatus  
An improved Flash memory device, control circuit, or data handling methods is described that facilitate the moving and consolidating data in split and non-split user/overhead data sector...
7350038 Disk system and medium with contents play-back restriction mechanism  
A disk system has contents play-back restriction mechanism. A contents storage section, which contents received from a regular server are stored in. A capacitor charged with power supplied from the...
7349958 Method for improving performance in a computer storage system by regulating resource requests from clients  
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and program storage device for providing non-blocking, minimum threaded two-way messaging. A Performance Monitor Daemon provides one non-blocked...
7346730 Mobile electronic device  
In a memory, first and second data areas are set as an area which stores one data item and a management area which stores determination information used to determine which one of the first and...
7343502 Method and apparatus for dynamic DLL powerdown and memory self-refresh  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for conserving power in an electronic device. In particular, embodiments of the present invention dynamically place the memory in...
7343460 Data storage system and process  
Computer systems may loose data when a failure occurs within a system. To counteract such loss of data a backup system may be employed. Common backup systems make a copy of either of the data on a...
7343464 Storage controller and storage system  
Provided is a storage controller having at least one or more first logical devices to be accessed by the host system, and at least one or more virtual devices for connecting the first logical...
7343461 Storage system for multi-site remote copy  
Information about remote copy target volumes of other storage systems 2 each having one and the same original volume V 1 is registered for each remote copy target volume in advance. When there...
7343470 Techniques for sequentially transferring data from a memory device through a parallel interface  
Techniques are provided for synchronously transmitting data in parallel from an external memory device to a destination circuit using a sequential read mode. The memory device includes an address...
7343445 Non-volatile memory card and transfer interruption means  
A memory card is provided with a transfer control circuit, a write control circuit and a judging circuit. The transfer control circuit outputs a transfer flag signal during the data transfer. The...
7343451 Disk array device and remote copying control method for disk array device  
Various types of resources of the disk array device are divided for respective users and communications resources used in remote copying are appropriately assigned to the users so that functional...
7340571 Storage system and data management device for storage system  
In the present invention, archive volumes are created in accordance with the size of data that is to be archived, and hence the storage regions are used in an efficient manner. The archive server...
7340563 Data transmission device having the shape of a standard 3.5″ disk  
A data transmission device includes a memory cache table ( 4 ) composed of a DRAM memory, a standard 2.5″ hard disk ( 5 ), a control CPU ( 7 ), a FPGA ( 6 ) (or ASIC), a disk interface ( 3 ) and...
7339837 Configurable embedded processor  
A configurable processor architecture uses a common simulation database for multiple processor configurations to reduce the cost of producing customized processor configurations. An unchanging core...
7340565 Source request arbitration  
Multiprocessor systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment may comprise a plurality of processor cores. A given processor core may be operative to generate a request for desired data in...
7340537 Memory channel with redundant presence detect  
A memory agent may include a link interface having bit lanes and may utilize more than one bit lane to determine if another memory agent is also connected to the same link interface.
7340621 Power conservation techniques for a digital computer  
A computer capable of playing real time applications includes a processing circuit configured to operate in a first power state, a second power state, and a third power state where the processing...
7340582 Fault processing for direct memory access address translation  
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process faults in a direct memory access address translation. A register set stores global control or status information for fault...
7337262 Adaptive read ahead method of data recorded on a sequential media readable via a variable data block size storage device  
A read request of a sequential media from a host is executed with a read request data block size equal to a maximum recorded data block size parameter of the variable data block size storage...
7337291 Software memory access control  
Software memory access control is provided by associating instruction areas with memory areas such that instruction areas are not permitted to access memory areas with which they are not...
7337279 Methods and apparatus for sending targeted probes  
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for increasing the efficiency of data access in a multiple processor, multiple cluster system. Mechanisms for reducing the...
7337246 Apparatus, system, and method for quick access grid bus connection of storage cells in automated storage libraries  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for quick access of stored removable storage media. The apparatus includes an automated data storage library, a communications processor, and a media...
7333232 Image processing apparatus having a function to receive control programs transferred from external device  
An image processing apparatus avoids abnormal control on loads including an optional device and enables only program transfer when transfer of a control program from an external device is not...
7334078 Method and system for handling streaming information  
One aspect of the present invention leads to a method of handling streaming information. The method includes receiving the streaming information and analyzing the streaming information to locate...
7334079 Worm providing storage system  
A method for operating a storage system configured to provide a Write Once and Read Many (WORM) function includes receiving a first command at a storage subsystem from a host. At least a portion of...
7334077 Method and apparatus for smart memory pass-through communication  
Enhanced functionality is provided in memory devices by enhancing the control logic to recognize predetermined data sequences. Standard (legacy) device operations are used to communicate the...
7328285 Apparatus and method for writing information to a designated information storage medium with an allocated data storage device using a specified information recording format  
A method to write information to a designated information storage medium using an allocated data storage device using a specified information recording format, whereby a previously-determined media...
7328287 System and method for managing I/O access policies in a storage environment employing asymmetric distributed block virtualization  
A system employing asymmetric distributed block virtualization includes a volume server, a plurality of volume clients, and one or more physical block devices. The volume server aggregates storage...
7328438 Deallocation of computer data in a multithreaded computer  
An apparatus, program product and method support the deallocation of a data structure in a multithreaded computer without requiring the use of computationally expensive semaphores or spin locks....
7325110 Method for acquiring snapshot  
In a storage switch to control a snapshot operation in the file unit, the delay in the writing operation of a host due to a data saving operation is prevented. In a snapshot acquiring method, the...
7325088 Management of indexed registers in a system on a chip  
An electronic system comprises a control unit for ordering the storage of an index value for indexed registers, in an additional index register linked to a defined initiator module, in response to...
7325091 Disabling defective blocks in a partitioned CAM device  
A CAM device having a plurality of CAM blocks includes circuitry to disable one or more defective CAM blocks, and to selectively translate address space in the disabled CAM blocks to the remaining...
7325095 Data storage organization for distributed computing in an intelligent disk drive  
An intelligent disk drive is described which includes means for executing distributed computing tasks including a CPU and associated memory. The communication interface with the host computer is...
7321961 Method and apparatus to avoid collisions between row activate and column read or column write commands  
A method and apparatus to avoid collisions between row activate and column read or column write commands is presented. A memory controller includes control logic, activate allowed logic, and last...