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7159071 Storage system and disk load balance control method thereof  
A storage system prevents a time out error of the host I/O caused by a stagnation of command processing in the storage system for accessing a disk device according to the host I/O request and...
7159089 Outputting apparatus, outputting method, recording apparatus, recording method, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method and recording medium  
Recording control with additional information superposed on data and recording control in response to a type of a recording medium on which data are recorded are disclosed. A recording apparatus...
7159124 Non-volatile semiconductor memory that prevents unauthorized reading  
A non-volatile includes a memory cell array for storing data, a decryption circuit for decrypting data read from the memory cell array using a prescribed computing process, and a decryption control...
7159090 Reproducing method, reproducing apparatus, and data accessing method  
A data accessing method includes the steps of obtaining a track information entry about a predetermined track from a play order table, which points to a track descriptor in a track information...
7154380 Power distribution and timing device  
A power distribution and timing device (PDTD) for controlling power supply to controlled device(s). This invention includes: an outlet; an alarm clock; a backup battery; a keyboard; a tamper...
7155588 Memory fence with background lock release  
A technique releases locks associated with particular memory locations. The technique uses a “background” approach to determining when the locks should be released in that memory operations...
7155589 Permanent memory block protection in a flash memory device  
A secure command is entered into a Flash memory device. A control data word is written to the memory device to specify which blocks of memory are to be permanently secured against write and erase...
7155477 Method and system for continuous interactive communication in an electronic network  
A method and system are disclosed for providing continuous, interactive communication among devices on an electronic network ( 110 ). A permanent, dedicated symmetric connection is provided between...
7155615 Method and apparatus for providing a secure-private partition on a hard disk drive of a computer system via IDE controller  
A system and method are described for providing a secure-private partition on a storage device of a computer system. The secure-private partition is normally invisible to an operating system unless...
7155481 Email attachment management in a computer system  
An e-mail management system that includes an e-mail browser having a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of e-mail messages that have been received over time. The...
7152149 Disk array apparatus and control method for disk array apparatus  
A disk array apparatus that is capable of effecting saving and operation of data with a simple construction. When a host computer sets “write inhibit” or “read/write inhibit” for an LDEV...
7152144 Centralized storage management method  
A storage system includes plural storage apparatuses storing data, and a storage controller which transmits and receives data between an external computer and the plural storage apparatuses, and...
7149854 External locking mechanism for personal computer memory locations  
A method and system for providing an external locking mechanism for memory locations. The memory includes a first plurality of storage locations configured with BIOS data and a second plurality of...
7149858 Synchronous replication for system and data security  
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for maintaining up-to-date, consistent backup copies of primary data that are immune to corruption even when security of the primary data is breached....
7149862 Access control in a data processing apparatus  
A data processing apparatus and method are provided for controlling access to a slave device, the slave device having an address range associated therewith. The apparatus comprises control storage...
7149860 Remote copy with WORM guarantee  
In the case in which data in a storage system A is remotely copied to a storage system B, it is not taken into account whether the data of the remote copy is WORM data. In the case in which a...
7149861 Disk array device capable of backing up and limiting access to a system logical unit  
The present invention provides a storage unit system that can be connected to a plurality of different kinds of networks and a controlling method for a system LU of a storage device control unit...
7149901 Cryptographically protected paging system  
A method and system for maintaining integrity and confidentiality of pages paged to an external storage unit from a physically secure environment. An outgoing page is selected to be exported from a...
7146474 System, method and computer program product to automatically select target volumes for a fast copy to optimize performance and availability  
A computer-implemented method includes, in response to detecting that a fast copy function has been invoked, automatically selecting at least one target volume for writing fast copy-related data,...
7146477 Mechanism for selectively blocking peripheral device accesses to system memory  
A system is configured to selectively block peripheral accesses to system memory. The system includes a secure execution mode (SEM)-capable processor configured to operate in a trusted execution...
7145481 Method and apparatus for trusted keyboard scanning  
A keyboard scan engine integrated on a chipset to initiate a keyscan process. The keyboard scan engine detects a key depression. When in a trusted mode, the keyboard scan engine transmits a key...
7143255 Chip protection register lock circuit in a flash memory device  
A chip protection register lock circuit uses a plurality of lock bits in a lock bit register. If the register contains N bits, N/2 bits of the register are coupled to an erase circuit and the...
7139890 Methods and arrangements to interface memory  
Methods and arrangements to interface memory are described. Many embodiments comprise comparing a transaction or access from a source to memory addresses associated with the source to determine...
7139891 Method and system for timestamped virtual worm in a SAN  
In a storage area network (SAN) including a storage device accessible by a remote client, a method is provided. The SAN is configured to allow input/output (I/O) data transport over the SAN between...
7140018 Method of using a distinct flow of computational control as a reusable abstract data object  
A method of parallel processing in which there is first provided a first thread which represents an independent flow of control managed by a program structure, the first thread having two states, a...
7139892 Implementation of memory access control using optimizations  
Mechanisms are disclosed that may allow certain memory access control algorithms to be implemented efficiently. When memory access control is based on controlling changes to an address translation...
7137031 Logical unit security for clustered storage area networks  
A system is described in which a plurality of host computers are coupled to a storage system for storing and retrieving data in the storage system. The storage system includes individually...
7137124 Storage area network methods and apparatus for storage device masking  
The invention provides improvements on storage area network (SAN) of the type having one or more host digital data processors in communication with one or more storage devices, where a host has an...
7134048 Logical unit security for clustered storage area networks  
A system is described in which a plurality of host computers are coupled to a storage system for storing and retrieving data in the storage system. The storage system includes individually...
7133961 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...
7133990 System and method for controlling access to protected data stored in a storage unit  
A system is provided for controlling access to protected data. The system includes storage means, protection means, an internal key, and means for receiving an input key from the outside. The...
7134025 Methods and circuits for preventing the overwriting of memory frames in programmable logic devices  
Described are various methods and systems for protecting proprietary configuration data for programmable logic devices. In one example, frames of configuration memory include overwrite-protect...
7133980 Anti-hacking method  
A system which discourages corruption of data within a network of computers. A refresh computer monitors the information within a hosting computer and periodically refreshes the information. The...
7133970 Least mean square dynamic cache-locking  
A dynamic cache-locking algorithm may determine the most frequently used function(s) and the number of cache lines that should be locked into the instruction cache embedded into a processor. By...
7134139 System and method for authenticating block level cache access on network  
A data cache for an iSCSI network caches block-level data from WAN servers for use by clients (e.g., LANs). The cache authenticates itself to the WAN servers, and authenticates clients requesting...
7130936 System, methods, and computer program product for shared memory queue  
In summary, one aspect of the present invention is directed to a method for a shared memory queue to support communicating between computer processes, such as an enqueuing process and a dequeuing...
7130977 Controlling access to a control register of a microprocessor  
Controlling access to a control register of a microprocessor. A method of controlling access to a control register such as CR 3, for example, of a processor having a normal execution mode and a...
7130829 Digital rights management  
A method, program, and system for augmenting digital rights management are provided. The invention comprises associating two fields with an electronic document. The first field identifies the...
7130967 Method and system for supplier-based memory speculation in a memory subsystem of a data processing system  
A data processing system includes one or more processing cores, a system memory having multiple rows of data storage, and a memory controller that controls access to the system memory and performs...
7130978 Method and apparatus for controlling access to storage device  
The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by...
7127579 Hardened extended firmware interface framework  
A method of system for hardening a firmware environment. A trusted core framework of firmware components are segregated from initially non-trustworthy extended firmware components such that the...
7127587 Intent seizes in a multi-processor environment  
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment use a requested address for an intent seize and a processor associated with the intent seize to determine a hash table...
7127565 Method and system for safely arbitrating disk drive ownership using a timestamp voting algorithm  
In data storage system including multiple servers and multiple disks, and wherein each server is in communication with each disk, each disk has a reserved disk block for each of the servers. The...
7127498 Software application domain and storage domain constraining process and method  
A method for constraining access to a storage system includes assigning a permanent bus identification to a storage device included in the storage system, creating a zone including a switch and the...
7127580 Apparatus and method for controlling data access using encrypted link position information  
An access restriction apparatus, an access restriction method, a computer readable program storage medium having a recorded access restriction program, and the access restriction program, all...
7124265 Storage system which controls access to logical devices by permitting attribute modes for logical devices to be set  
There is provided a storage system suitable for an open system which has advanced security functions for logical devices. In a storage system such as a RAID system, 6 types of access attributes...
7124266 Locking and memory allocation in file system cache  
A method may involve assigning each of a plurality of freelists and a plurality of hashlists used to implement a cache to one of a plurality of lock groups and acquiring one of a plurality of...
7124274 Virtual to physical memory address mapping within a system having a secure domain and a non-secure domain  
An apparatus for processing data, the apparatus comprising: a processor operable in a plurality of modes and either a secure domain or a non-secure domain including at least one secure mode being a...
7120763 Method, array and set of several arrays for protecting several programs and/or files from unauthorized access by a process  
An area and a process file are assigned to each program to be protected. The process or processes that may run in the corresponding area is or are stored in a process file. When the program is...
7120254 Cryptographic system and method for geolocking and securing digital information  
A method and apparatus for controlling access to digital information utilizes a location identity attribute that defines a specific geographic location. The location identity attribute is...