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7631207 Reducing power consumption for processing of common values in microprocessor registers and execution units  
Reducing power consumption in microprocessors for the processing of common values. Common values provided in at least one received operation are encoded into encoded common values having a lower...
7610454 Address decoding method and related apparatus by comparing mutually exclusive bit-patterns of addresses  
A memory address decoding method for determining if a given address is located in one of a plurality of sections. Each section has a plurality of memory units and each memory unit has a unique...
7607579 Information processing apparatus  
The invention provides an information processing apparatus that includes: a card slot in which a card-type medium is inserted; and a data communication unit that performs data exchange with the...
7600073 Cache disk storage upgrade  
Upgrades are made to the available capacity of cache disk storage without adding drawer(s) or blade(s) when the upgrade is requested. A cache control is configured to respond to a requested...
7594023 Data carousel receiving and caching  
Data objects are sent using a data carousel and forward error correction. This involves segregating a file into groups, wherein each group represents k data blocks. From the k data blocks of each...
7584333 Data processing device in vehicle control system  
A data storage device executes a program including the steps of: determining whether or not a storage instruction to include data to be stored, along with a class generated as a label common among...
7584324 Statistical based admission control technique using three random variable admission control  
Admission of a new disk stream is based on the probability of overcommitting disk bandwidth based on parameters related to the disk. These fixed parameters are determined either by retrieval from...
7577813 System and method for enumerating multi-level processor-memory affinities for non-uniform memory access systems  
A system and method is disclosed for enumerating multi-level processor-memory affinities for non-uniform memory access systems. A processor-memory affinity hierarchy for each possible pairing of a...
7577783 Portable data storage device and method of dynamic memory management therefor  
A portable data storage device includes a first storage unit having a data storing zone and a reserved zone for bad blocks in the first storage unit, and a second storage unit having a look-up...
7552106 Variable length file entry navigation  
Provided are a method, system, deployment and article of manufacture, for variable length file entry navigation. In one embodiment, a first file entry size portion of a first entry marker at a...
7539838 Methods and apparatus for increasing the storage capacity of a storage system  
One embodiment is directed to an object addressable storage (OAS) system that has a plurality of storage devices to store a plurality of content units. The OAS system provides an OAS interface so...
7539835 Data storage analysis mechanism  
System and method for data storage management. Embodiments may be used to perform analysis of disk-based data storage. Embodiments may provide a storage analysis mechanism for estimating storage...
7533238 Method for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor  
A method for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor is provided. A facility is provided in association with a processor for setting a local storage size limit. This facility is a...
7533235 Reserve stacking  
The reserves of a flexible volume and the aggregate which contains the flexible volume are “stacked”. When the flexible volume is created, a portion of the flexible volume having a capacity...
7523284 Method and apparatus for providing memory management within a system management mode  
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for managing memory within a system management mode (“SMM”). According to the method, a memory management program is executed within...
7523230 Device and method for maximizing performance on a memory interface with a variable number of channels  
The present invention includes a method and device for controlling the data length of read and write operations performed on a memory device. The method includes determining a first number of...
7516253 Apparatus for storing data having minimum guaranteed amounts of storage  
An apparatus for storing data includes a memory having minimum guaranteed amounts of storage corresponding to connections. The apparatus includes a mechanism for changing dynamically the minimum...
7509392 Creating and removing application server partitions in a server cluster based on client request contexts  
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine an application server partition based on the context of a request from a client, and send the request to the...
7502891 Storage management based on worklist  
Systems and methods of storage management which are based on a worklist are described. The storage typically although not necessarily includes a faster access part and a slower access part. One of...
7500077 Use of region-oriented memory profiling to detect heap fragmentation and sparse memory utilization  
A method of detecting inefficient use of virtual memory by an application that is programmed using memory pointers. The method can include selecting a first heap from a list of tracked heaps and...
7496719 Universal nonvolatile memory boot mode  
In accordance with a universal nonvolatile memory boot mode, one or more portions of boot code are obtained from a nonvolatile memory component. These one or more portions are obtained without...
7490212 System and method for writing data to dedicated bands of a hard disk drive  
Data is written to a hard disk drive using shingled writing principles, i.e., each data track is partially overwritten when an immediately contiguous data track is written. Two or more contiguous...
7490203 Method for dumping data in processing systems to a shared storage  
Provided are a method, system and program for dumping data in processing systems to a shared storage. A plurality of processing systems receive a signal indicating an event. Each of the processing...
7487319 Resource allocation unit queue  
Provided is a method, system, deployment and program for resource allocation unit queuing in which an allocation unit associated with a task is classified. An allocation unit freed as the task ends...
7484065 Selective memory allocation  
Methodology, systems and media associated with selectively allocating memory are described. One exemplary method embodiment comprises receiving a quality data that identifies the quality of one or...
7479992 Image recording apparatus  
An image recording apparatus includes an image sensor. Image data of an object imaged by the image sensor is recorded on a recording medium to which an FAT system is adopted. A recording area of...
7478218 Adaptive cache sizing based on monitoring of regenerated and replaced cache entries  
A runtime code manipulation system is provided that supports code transformations on a program while it executes. The runtime code manipulation system uses code caching technology to provide...
7477578 Disk recording device and disk recording method for recording and erasing titles on a disk  
Recording sections configured to record titles on a disk based on a management method in which additional recording and erasing of each title is possible, and each of the titles are recorded...
7469329 Methods for dynamically resizing memory pools  
There are disclosed methods for dynamically resizing memory pools used by database management systems. In one aspect, if a decrease in allocation to the memory pool is required, at least one page...
7467282 Migrating a traditional volume to a virtual volume in a storage system  
A file system migrates a traditional volume to a virtual volume without data copying. In an embodiment, a traditional volume index node is selected for migration. The traditional volume index node...
7454588 Multi-component processor  
A processor having a limited amount of local memory for storing code and/or data utilizes a program stored in external memory. The program stored in external memory is configured into blocks which...
7447838 Program, method and apparatus for virtual storage management that assigns physical volumes managed in a pool to virtual volumes  
A capacity designating unit designates a capacity, which a user desires, of virtual disks provided to a disk pool. A first selecting unit selects one (1) or a plurality of physical disks that...
7444491 Automatic resource sharing between FIFOs  
Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for allocating memory resources. In one embodiment, a control component coupled with a memory device determines that a data buffer...
7426625 Data processing system and computer program product for support of system memory addresses with holes  
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for supporting memory addresses with holes is provided. A first physical address range allocated for system memory for an operating...
7409498 Scaled coercion of disk drive capacity  
The present invention provides disk coercion by generating coercion percentages or values that can be used to coerce various disks according to each disk's particular labeled size or capacity. In...
7406579 Selectively changeable line width memory  
The invention provides for selectively changing a line width for a memory, i.e., selecting one of a plurality of line widths for a memory. The selected line width is used in communicating with one...
7406562 Information read/write device  
An information read/write device has a first processor for instructing a second processor to write information onto or read information from a recording medium. The recording medium has a random...
7403203 Stacking series of non-power-of-two frame buffers in a memory array  
Storing frames of data in frame buffers sized to match the frame size when the frame size is not a power-of-two number of bytes is disclosed. The buffer size is chosen to be the largest...
7395403 Simulating partition resource allocation  
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, simulate allocation of a simulated resource to simulated partitions in a simulated logically-partitioned computer and...
7394466 Method for memory allocation for images  
In a method for memory allocation for images, when storing data describing an image ( 10 ) in operating memory ( 1 ), the image ( 10 ) is divided into lines, and each line is described by a...
7392343 Memory card having a storage cell and method of controlling the same  
A controller comprises a host interface section and a processing circuit. The host interface section receives a command sequence outputted from a host apparatus to a first nonvolatile semiconductor...
7383412 On-demand memory synchronization for peripheral systems with multiple parallel processors  
On-demand memory synchronization is provided for peripheral subsystems, including graphics systems, that include multiple co-processors operating in parallel. A region of master memory (memory...
7380093 Storage system including a device, data management unit, control unit and/or primary computer, and method, for allocating storage area  
The present invention relates to a method for allocating volumes having a suitable physical location relationship based on a method of use of files by applications. When an application management...
7353350 Data store management system and method for wireless devices  
In accordance with the teaching described herein, systems and methods are provided for managing memory space in a mobile device. A plurality of data storage locations may be included. A plurality...
7350045 Dynamic memory heap tagging  
A data structure within a block of allocable memory of a memory structure such as a heap is used to identify the function that is responsible for causing memory problems such as random overwrites,...
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...
7337273 Strategies for reading information from a mass storage medium using a cache memory  
Cache management strategies are described for retrieving information from a storage medium, such as an optical disc, using a cache memory including multiple cache segments. A first group of cache...
7330957 User-based allocation and deallocation of storage in a storage system  
A management server includes the user management segment information having stored therein a volume managed by a user, a receiving unit for receiving a volume allocation request from a management...
7330938 Hybrid-cache having static and dynamic portions  
System and method for a hybrid-cache. Data received from a data source is cached within a static cache as stable data. The static cache is a cache having a fixed size. Portions of the stable data...
7310648 System for compression of physiological signals  
A method of optimizing retention of signal information from a physiologically generated digital signal is provided. The method can comprise steps of generating a digital signal from a physiological...
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