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7401249 |
Method for backing up and recovering data in a hard disk
A method for backing up and recovering data in a hard disk, used to back up data in the hard disk, including the following steps: partitioning a segment in the hard disk as a data backup area;...
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7401251 |
Architecture for managing failover and recovery after failover in a data storage environment
This invention is a computer architecture for managing failover and recovery following failover in a data storage environment.
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7398331 |
Peripheral apparatus, firmware updating method thereof for determining whether an error has occurred during the installation of a rewrite operation
A peripheral apparatus reserves and stores, on a nonvolatile storage medium, a first storage area which stores a control program for implementing a function of the peripheral apparatus, and a...
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7398420 |
Method for keeping snapshot image in a storage system
A technique for realizing a snapshot function is provided, which can reduce data transfer between a server system and a storage subsystem which is necessary during data copy operations between...
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7398416 |
Proactive driver response to an operating system if a drive is removed from a RAID configuration
A method for responding to a particular drive being removed from a drive array, comprising the steps of (A) determining a maximum drive response time of the particular drive being removed from the...
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7398415 |
Method and apparatus for relating device name to physical location of device on a network
A method and apparatus for relating a device name to a physical location of a device ( 202 ) on a network is provided. The network may be a serial loop network, for example a Fibre Channel...
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7395466 |
Method and apparatus to adjust voltage for storage location reliability
According to embodiments of the present invention, an integrated circuit such as a processor includes a counter to count an actual number of unreliable storage locations in the processor cache, at...
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7395451 |
Apparatus, method and program for the control of storage
A storage control apparatus is provided that comprises a failure monitoring unit arranged to add points in proportion to detected abnormality to find statistically added points for each of N disk...
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7392362 |
System and method for volume management
A volume management system includes a management server which includes a memory and a processor, the memory stores an area level indicative of released or unreleased, a priority level indicative of...
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7389396 |
Bounding I/O service time
A storage system with an array of redundant storage devices places bounds on access request servicing. If a storage device is unable to service the access request within the bounds, the storage...
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7389379 |
Selective disk offlining
A storage system with redundant mass storage device arrays determines that a mass storage device is non-responsive, and individually offlines the specific mass storage device for a temporary...
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7386614 |
Method allowing persistent links to web-pages
A system that enables creation of URL addresses in which the path information is partially or entirely symbolic. The symbolic path information is maintained even after the physical path information...
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7386754 |
Method and apparatus to improve magnetic disc drive reliability using excess un-utilized capacity
A method of storing data on a storage device is disclosed. The method includes receiving data at a storage device containing the storage media, adding error correction code to the received data,...
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7386768 |
Memory channel with bit lane fail-over
Memory apparatus and methods utilizing multiple bit lanes may redirect one or more signals on the bit lanes. A memory agent may include a redrive circuit having a plurality of bit lanes, a memory...
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7383452 |
Electronic device and method for initiating powering-up of a processor in the electronic device
A device and method for making a peripheral device compliant with a power management standard, such as the USB standard, are described. The device includes a power management unit (PMU) and a...
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7380156 |
System and method for managing time-limited long-running operations in a data storage system
A system and method for managing a time-limited long-running process that acts upon disks of a disk array is based upon a general rule of acting upon each disk in an order based upon the length of...
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7376860 |
Checkpoint/resume/restart safe methods in a data processing system to establish, to restore and to release shared memory regions
A method is provided in which checkpointing operations are carried out in data processing systems running multiple processes which employ shared memory in a manner which preserves data coherence...
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7373546 |
Cluster network with redundant communication paths
A cluster network is provided in which the storage enclosures of the network are grouped into storage sets or columns of storage enclosures. Each server node of the cluster network is coupled to an...
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7370243 |
Precise error handling in a fine grain multithreaded multicore processor
A method and mechanism for error recovery in a processor. A multithreaded processor is configured to utilize software for hardware detected machine errors. Rather than correcting and clearing the...
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7370151 |
Method and system for absorbing defects in high performance microprocessor with a large n-way set associative cache
A method and architecture for improving the usability and manufacturing yield of a microprocessor having a large on-chip n-way set associative cache. The architecture provides a method for working...
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7370227 |
Desktop computer blade fault identification system and method
A method and system for remotely isolating faults in computer network devices coupled to a computer network. A plurality of first computer units are coupled to the computer network. The plurality...
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7370239 |
Input/output device with configuration, fault isolation and redundant fault assist functionality
A process control system includes a plurality of input/output (I/O) devices and a controller in communication using a bus. Each I/O device has an interface for communicatively linking the I/O...
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7363530 |
Data recording method and data recording apparatus
The latest management data recorded in a recording medium is read. Then, it is judged whether the fault is in this latest management data or not. When it is judged the fault is not in this latest...
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7363556 |
Testing apparatus and testing method
A testing apparatus for testing a memory-under-test includes a writing section for writing preset test data into each page of said memory-under-test to test said memory-under-test and a fail memory...
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7360113 |
Protocol for communicating data block copies in an error recovery environment
The present invention provides an exemplary system and method for storing information for later recovery. One or more first memory addresses within a recovery storage are assigned to one or more...
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7360112 |
Detection and recovery of dropped writes in storage devices
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a request to write data to a storage medium is received. The data requested to be written to the storage medium is stored in a...
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7360118 |
Method and system for verifying data in a shadow memory
A system for verifying data in a shadow memory is provided that includes a main memory, a shadow memory, a shadow memory initializer, and a shadow memory verifier. The main memory is operable to...
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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....
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7356734 |
Method and apparatus for creating a backup of data of from multiple sources
A method and apparatus for data backup is disclosed in which prior to actually performing a backup operation from a subscriber computer, the backup server device checks a specified server to...
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7356728 |
Redundant cluster network
A cluster network is disclosed in which of the storage drives of the network are distributed across the nodes of the network. Data is stored to the drives of the network according to a RAID storage...
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7356730 |
Dynamic redistribution of parity groups
A system and method for dynamic redistribution of parity groups is described. The system and method for dynamic redistribution of parity groups operates on a computer storage system that includes a...
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7356732 |
System and method for allocating spare disks in networked storage
A system and method for a file server to allocate spare disks in a network storage system. The method determines the available spare disks and first selects those disks that satisfy one or more...
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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...
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7353434 |
Method for controlling storage system
A storage system including: channel control portions each including a circuit board on which a file access processing portion for receiving file-by-file data input/output requests sent from...
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7350050 |
Disk controller with logically partitioning function
To provide a storage system partitioned into logical partitions. A storage system includes: a plurality of disk drives; and a disk controller that is connected to the disk drives and reads/writes...
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7350097 |
Method for recovering control of a continually resetting control module
A method for recovering control of a continually resetting control module is provided. The method recovers control by monitoring a vehicle's communication links for a very short period each time...
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7350102 |
Cost reduction schema for advanced raid algorithms
A signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a processor to perform operations to read information stored in a storage system. The storage...
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7346804 |
Hard disk drive data scrub methodology
Method, system and computer program product for reporting and recovering from uncorrectable data errors in a data processing system using the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) or the Serial ATA...
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7346831 |
Parity assignment technique for parity declustering in a parity array of a storage system
A parity assignment technique enables parity declustering in a large, balanced parity (“super-stripe”) array of a storage system. The balanced array may be constructed by combining a plurality...
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7343513 |
Systems and methods for recovering memory
A system includes a group of devices and a shared memory that is partitioned into blocks that are capable of being allocated to the group of devices using linked lists. The system also includes...
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7343517 |
Systems for managing of system metadata and methods for recovery from an inconsistent copy set
The present invention relates to a method of updating SMD in an array of storage devices. In an embodiment, the method employs an array controller to change the start tag values of a copy set X,...
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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...
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7340642 |
Method and an apparatus to maintain storage devices in a storage system
A method and an apparatus to maintain storage devices in a storage system have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes logically migrating a storage device out of a set of storage...
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7340653 |
Method for testing a memory device
Disclosed is a method for testing a memory device with a long-term clock signal by automatically performing precharge only after activation. In this method, a signal for precharging the banks of...
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7340639 |
System and method for proxying data access commands in a clustered storage system
A system and method proxies data access commands across a cluster interconnect between storage appliances in a cluster. Each storage appliance activates two ports for data access, a local port for...
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7337374 |
Program, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage apparatus
The present invention controls storage apparatuses, and saves setting information of the storage apparatuses, transmits the saved setting information to the storage apparatuses, receives from the...
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7337350 |
Clustered storage system with external storage systems
A data storage system comprises a first platform storage system including a first network interface to communicate with a host computer, a first storage unit to provide storage volumes, a first...
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7337247 |
Buffer and method of diagnosing buffer failure
A buffer includes an input unit that inputs data; an output unit that outputs the data; a plurality of registers that stores the data while sequentially shifting the data from the input unit to the...
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7337283 |
Method and system for managing storage reservation
A user operates an input device to set information necessary for reserving a volume and a port while looking at a screen for reservation management displayed on a display device Next, a storage...
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7334155 |
Remote copy system and remote copy method
A storage control apparatus and a storage control method are provided wherein in a system having a plurality of disk systems and secondary disk systems at remote sites, the data transfer amount...
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