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7624318 Method and apparatus for automatically identifying multiple combinations of operational and non-operational components on integrated circuit chips with a single part number  
A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer usable program code for automatically identifying multiple combinations of operational and non-operational components with a...
7624299 Write-once optical disc, and method and apparatus for recording management information on write-once optical disc  
A writable-once optical recording medium such as a BD-WO, and a method and apparatus for managing the writable-once optical recording medium, are provided. According to an embodiment, the method...
7620786 Storage recovery using a delta log  
A system and method for removing one volume of a redundant data storage system, keeping a delta log of subsequent changes to the remaining volumes of the redundant data storage system, replacing...
7607039 Data storage device with re-allocation processing which determines an order in which re-allocation processing is executed for defective sectors  
Embodiments of the invention improve the security of data written on a magnetic disk by performing re-allocation processing starting from a sector whose defect is large in automatic re-allocation...
7606986 System and method for resolving SAN fabric partitions  
Systems, methods, apparatus and software can combine information about host access to virtualization functionality and virtualization functionality access to storage, use this information in...
7603584 Method and apparatus of recording data in the optical recording medium  
A recording medium and apparatus and method for managing defective areas are discussed. According to an embodiment a controller determining whether or not to replace a defective block with a...
7603580 Redundant manager for a storage system  
A method for managing activity of a data storage system, including at least partly managing and performing an operator interaction with the storage system using a first processing system, and...
7600151 RAID capacity expansion interruption recovery handling method and system  
A RAID capacity expansion interruption recovery handling method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) unit for providing a...
7596714 Methods and apparatus to manage throttling in computing environments  
Methods and apparatus to manage throttling in computing environments are described herein. One example method may include receiving an indication that a first memory module has reached a...
7594145 Improving performance of a processor having a defective cache  
In one embodiment, a method for improving performance of a processor having a defective cache includes accessing first object code and generating second object code from the first object code. The...
7590899 Processor memory array having memory macros for relocatable store protect keys  
A DDR SDRAM DIMM for a mainframe main storage subsystem has a plurality of DDR SDRAMs on a rectangular printed circuit board having a first side and a second side, a length (152 MM=6 inch) between...
7590884 Storage system, storage control device, and storage control method detecting read error response and performing retry read access to determine whether response includes an error or is valid  
In a storage system, a disk device performs recovery and transfers read data to a control device, and the control device judges the validity of the recovery to prevent a transfer of erroneous data....
7583461 Defect registration method of magnetic disk, and magnetic disk drive  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a defect registration method for performing defect registration of sectors on a magnetic disk. In one embodiment, a rectangular detection window is...
7581135 System and method for storing and restoring a data file using several storage media  
A system and method for storing and restoring a data file using several storage media. The method begins with the step of generating several identical copies of the data file. The identical copies...
7581134 Optical disk recorder  
In an optical disk recorder which records data in a recordable form in compliance with UDF, when writing of a data block constituting a user data file and a control data file is failed (NO in # 2...
7577885 Semiconductor integrated circuit, design support software system and automatic test pattern generation system  
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a memory circuit having memory cells, a first register, a second register, a register selection circuit having an input to which an output of the first...
7577868 No data loss IT disaster recovery over extended distances  
Systems and methods operating over extended distances provide for recovery of data and operational continuity of computer applications accessing data within an information technology system if an...
7577810 Device and method for recording information  
A device for recording records a series of blocks ( 42 ) having continuous logical addresses, e.g. digitally encoded video, on a record carrier at a corresponding physical address range. Some...
7546495 Method and device for managing defective storage units on a record carrier  
The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding device for managing defective storage units on a record carrier, in particular on a rewritable optical record carrier. To avoid...
7546491 Semiconductor memory device with standby current failure judging function and method for judging standby current failure  
A semiconductor memory device which a pad for receiving a power voltage, a first power line connected to the pad, and a plurality of second power lines respectively connected to memory cells of a...
7543179 Error management topologies  
A method may include partitioning a plurality of processor cores into a main partition comprising at least one processor core capable of executing an operating system and an embedded partition...
7543096 Safe message transfers on PCI-Express link from RAID controller to receiver-programmable window of partner RAID controller CPU memory  
A fault-tolerant mass storage system includes two RAID controllers that communicate via a PCI-Express link. Each controller has a bus bridge coupled to the link, a cache memory that caches user...
7539986 Method for guest operating system integrity validation  
A method includes performing a file system integrity validation on a host machine having a hypervisor architecture when a file system of a second process is mounted on a file system of a first...
7539896 Repairable block redundancy scheme  
A scheme for block substitution within a flash memory device is disclosed which uses a programmable look-up table to store new addresses for block selection when certain input block addresses are...
7539894 Method for accessing data of defected optical disk  
A method for accessing data in an optical disk with a drive. The drive has a memory. The optical disk has data blocks for recording data, and spare blocks for replacing defect data blocks. The...
7533310 Semiconductor memory test device and method thereof  
A semiconductor memory test device and method thereof are provided. The example semiconductor memory test device may include a fail memory configured to store at least one test result of a memory...
7533293 Systems and methods for CPU repair  
In one embodiment, a CPU cache management system is provided. The CPU management system includes, for example, a CPU chip and cache management logic. The CPU chip include cache elements that are...
7519875 Method and apparatus for enabling a user to determine whether a defective location in a memory device has been remapped to a redundant memory portion  
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for enabling a user to determine whether a defective location in a memory device of an integrated circuit (IC) has been remapped to a location in a...
7516357 Stored memory recovery system  
Various embodiments of systems and methods for preserving saved memory states to which a computer system can be restored are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods intercept...
7516352 Isolating a drive from disk array for diagnostic operations  
A storage system includes a RAID adapter, disk array switches, sub-processors, and hard disk drives (HDDs). The system permits the isolation of a suspected faulty HDD to allow diagnostics to be...
7516037 Method evaluating threshold level of a data cell in a memory device  
A method evaluating threshold of a data cell in a memory device including a programming locus coupled with the data cell for receiving a programming signal setting a stored signal level in the data...
7512846 Method and apparatus of defect areas management  
A method and the apparatus of defect areas management includes the steps as following: reading a defect area table in a random access memory; if the area is readable, then read the area. If the...
7509526 Method of correcting NAND memory blocks and to a printing device employing the method  
A printing device comprises memory storing data in blocks and a processing unit communicating with the memory and being responsive to print jobs. In response to a print job, the processing unit...
7509524 Systems and methods for a distributed file system with data recovery  
The intelligent distributed file system enables the storing of file data among a plurality of smart storage units which are accessed as a single file system. The intelligent distributed file system...
7509523 Storage system with cascaded copy targeting and enhanced integrity  
A storage controller includes an interface to host computer apparatus and an interface to a plurality of controlled storage apparatus. The storage controller comprises a host write component...
7502954 High availability data storage system  
A data storage system includes a disk drive array including a plurality of disk drives; a first storage processor for controlling the operation of the data storage system; a second storage...
7500137 Recording medium, and method and apparatus of recording and reproducing data on the same  
An apparatus of recording data on a recording medium includes a pickup unit and a microcomputer. The pickup unit records data in a plurality of data frames included in a cluster. The microcomputer...
7495456 System and method of determining pulse properties of semiconductor device  
Provided are a system and method of determining pulse properties of a semiconductor device. An embodiment of the system includes at least one pair of first and second probes electrically contacting...
7490270 Method, system, and software for rebuilding a storage drive  
When a storage drive used as part of a redundant storage system is rebuilt, a drive controller obtains information for the rebuild process from an operating system (OS) specific agent. The...
7490263 Apparatus, system, and method for a storage device's enforcing write recovery of erroneous data  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a storage device's enforcing write recovery of erroneous data. The storage device enforces write recovery leading to a reassignment and re-write...
7490262 Method of determining defects in information storage medium, recording/reproducing apparatus using the same, and information storage medium  
A method of determining whether a defect exists on an information storage medium is provided along with a recording/reproducing apparatus using the same. Such a method comprises: seeking a defect...
7490261 Background media scan for recovery of data errors  
The present invention is a method of recovering data in a system that stores data in identifiable storage segments. The method includes scanning at least one storage segment for a read error. The...
7487388 Method of recovering reallocation sectors in data storage system and disc drive using the same  
A reallocation sector recovering system and method reducing a number of reallocation sectors by selectively recovering reallocation sectors, and a disc drive implementing the same. The reallocation...
7487387 Recording medium defect management  
A recording medium (D) comprises a file system area (FSA), a data area (DAA) and an initial defect management area (DMA). A system comprises a drive (DR) for writing data (DA) to or reading data...
7487306 Device and method for recording information  
A device for recording information records blocks, having continuous logical addresses on a record carrier at corresponding physical addresses, translates logical addresses into physical addresses...
7484117 Method and apparatus for detecting and remedying excessive loop initialization  
A drive shelf includes an embedded switching hub (ESH) that monitors Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) traffic, including loop initialization requests (LIRs), coming from drives attached to the...
7480774 Method for performing a command cancel function in a DRAM  
A method for performing a common cancel (CC) function on a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) semiconductor device to improve reliability and speed of a memory system. The CC function rakes...
7478285 Generation and use of system level defect tables for main memory  
Methods and apparatus for maintaining and utilizing system memory defect tables that store information identifying defective memory locations in memory modules. For some embodiments, the defect...
7478271 Method for recycling flash memory  
A method for recycling a flash memory includes rearranging the capacity of cells, centralizing bad sectors at a cell, labeling the cell as a useless cell, examining the bad sectors in each cell of...
7472223 Surface level sparing in disk drives  
A technique involves accessing a hard disk platter surface using surface virtualization. The technique includes receiving a command to access a hard disk platter surface. The command specifies an...
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