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US20080059750 Computer system and performance tuning method  
A computer system includes a host computer; a first storage system that processes an I/O request issued by the host computer; and a second storage system that receives host I/O information and...
US20080059749 Dynamic Fragment Mapping  
A data structure and methods for dynamic fragment mapping are disclosed. A dataset may be divided into pieces and stored at multiple locations and the system may dynamically increase or decrease...
US20080059748 Method, mobile device, system and software for a write method with burst stop and data masks  
A method, mobile device, system, and software are devised in order to implement a write method that includes two different types of write commands, depending upon the length of a data burst to...
US20080059747 LOAD MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE COMMUNICATION SIGNALING LATENCY IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENT  
A computer implemented method, a computer program product and a data processing system for reducing communication signaling protocol latency is provided. Automatic memory management activities,...
US20080059746 Distributed storage network  
A distributed storage network of computers is disclosed in which a determination as to whether to migrate a data item from a computer connected to said network to another computer is made in...
US20080059745 Storage system and data migration method for the same  
A method and system are provided that can realize data migration between volumes accessed by a host computer without stopping the host computer accessing the volumes. A host computer 10 is...
US20080059744 Storage system, and data management and migration method  
A storage system or data management and migration method enabling migration of an access destination for a host system without having to stop the transmission of data between the host system and...
US20080059743 Portable Storage Device With Updatable Access Permission  
A portable storage device controllable by a remote service center is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the portable storage device includes a register for storing permission indicia and a...
US20080059742 Authenticating hardware for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users  
Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing...
US20080059741 Detecting radiation-based attacks  
In a device having a plurality of circuits that can store at least a first value and a second value, a method can include configuring at least one circuit to persistently store the first value;...
US20080059740 Hardware for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users  
Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing...
US20080059739 System and method for block diagram simulation context restoration  
A method of saving portions of a simulation or execution engine image at various points in a simulation or execution is disclosed. The saving of the simulation or execution context in addition to...
US20080059738 MAINTAINING CONSISTENCY IN A REMOTE COPY DATA STORAGE SYSTEM  
An apparatus configured to operate as a primary for a remote copy pair is provided. The apparatus comprises a journal component at said primary for generating journal entries for one or more...
US20080059737 Video Recording Apparatus  
Disclosed is a video recording apparatus, including: a storage section which stores a program data set and the program data set is copied onto a storage medium; a copy-complete information grant...
US20080059736 Storage system and backup method  
Differential management information that is information representing the difference between a logical volume and a sequential device group after a full backup is updated in response to an update of...
US20080059735 Method of improving efficiency of replication monitoring  
Provided is a copy pair monitoring method which is for a storage system having at least one host computer, at least one storage subsystem, and a management computer, the storage subsystem including...
US20080059734 Storage subsystem and back-up/recovery method  
One or more random access-type storage devices comprise a volume group and a journal volume. The volume group contains a volume pair configured from a primary volume and a secondary volume....
US20080059733 Storage apparatus and method of managing data using the storage apparatus  
Provided is a storage apparatus operable to prevent incomplete backup and perform efficient backup even in systems characterized by a relatively small backup window and high degrees of utilization...
US20080059732 COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH DATA RECOVERING, METHOD OF MANAGING DATA WITH DATA RECOVERING AND MANAGING COMPUTER FOR DATA RECOVERING  
A computer system including: at least one host computer, a storage system for storing data used in the host computer, and a managing computer for managing storing the data in the storage system...
US20080059731 BACKUP OF HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED STORAGE POOLS  
Provided are a system, method, and article of manufacture wherein at least two primary storage pools are configured, wherein a first primary storage pool is configured to indicate a second primary...
US20080059730 Firmware component modification  
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with firmware modification are described. One system embodiment includes modification utility configured to modify a less-than whole portion of...
US20080059729 REMOVING ALIAS ADDRESSES FROM AN ALIAS ADDRESS POOL  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for removing alias addresses from an alias address pool. A plurality of alias addresses are assigned to an alias address pool, wherein the...
US20080059728 Systems and methods for masking latency of memory reorganization work in a compressed memory system  
Computer memory management systems and methods are provided in which data block buffering and priority scheduling protocols are utilized in compressed memory systems to mask the latency associated...
US20080059727 Turbo code interleaver with near optimal performance  
A method of interleaving blocks of indexed data of varying length is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a set of basic Interleavers comprising a family of one or more...
US20080059726 Dynamic measurement of an operating system in a virtualized system  
Systems, methods, and media for dynamic measurement of operating systems in a virtualized system are disclosed. Some embodiments may include accessing a dirty bitmap associated with an operating...
US20080059725 Information Processing Terminal and Received Voltage Controlling Method  
Disclosed herein is an information processing terminal including: a resonance circuit unit configured to have a resonance frequency varying linearly in accordance with a control signal so as to...
US20080059724 Content distribution and switching amongst data streams  
In lieu of merely forwarding different selected content including originally received decoder information (e.g., timing information) to a respective user for a newly selected data stream, a server...
US20080059723 Detecting and resolving locks in a memory unit  
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a first counter to count dispatches of a senior request in a memory unit, a second counter to count cycles of a processor...
US20080059722 Handling data processing requests  
A data processing apparatus and method which handle data processing requests is disclosed. The data processing apparatus comprises: reception logic operable to receive, for subsequent issue, a...
US20080059721 Predictive Popular Content Replication  
Predictive popular content replication is described. In an embodiment service node(s) can provide media content when requested by client devices. Previous requests for the media content can be...
US20080059720 System and method to enable prioritized sharing of devices in partitioned environments  
A system and method for enabling prioritized sharing of devices in partitioned environments. The method includes enabling I/O (Input/Output) requests from the partitions to be routed to a resource...
US20080059719 Determining Whether A Non-Running Processor Has Access To An Address Space  
A method is provided for determining whether a logical processor of an information processing system has access to an address space of the information processing system. An instruction is issued by...
US20080059718 STORAGE SYSTEM, DATA RELOCATION METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THAT RECORDS DATA RELOCATION PROGRAM  
There is a need to improve access speed for a file in a storage system that is provided with multiple storage units having different access speeds. The storage system ( 10 ) includes an access...
US20080059717 HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR A SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY SYSTEM  
A method and apparatus for accelerating transactional execution. Barriers associated with shared memory lines referenced by memory accesses within a transaction are only invoked/executed the first...
US20080059716 Moving-picture processing apparatus and pre-fetch control method  
A moving-picture processing apparatus has a pre-fetch memory pre-fetching a portion of a decoded picture stored in an external memory, and a miss/hit determination unit determining a manner in...
US20080059715 Computer system and control method for controlling processor  
A processor reads a program including a prefetch command and a load command and data from a main memory, and executes the program. The processor includes: a processor core that executes the...
US20080059714 SYSTEM, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PREFETCHING VIA MEMORY BLOCK TAGS  
A system for memory management including a tag cache in communication with one or more cache devices in a storage hierarchy is provided. The tag cache includes tags of recently accessed memory...
US20080059713 Cache eviction  
The present invention provides a method and data processing apparatus comprising: a cache having a plurality of data entries; an eviction buffer comprising an information portion and a data...
US20080059712 Method and apparatus for achieving fair cache sharing on multi-threaded chip multiprocessors  
In a computer system with a multi-core processor having a shared cache memory level, an operating system scheduler adjusts the CPU latency of a thread running on one of the cores to be equal to the...
US20080059711 Method and apparatus for preventing software side channel attacks  
A method for managing a cache is disclosed. A context switch is identified. It is determined whether an application running after the context switch requires protection. Upon determining that the...
US20080059710 Directory caches, and methods for operation thereof  
A directory cache is provided with a plurality of directory entries configured to store information regarding copies of memory lines stored in a plurality of caches. The entries are divided into...
US20080059709 COMMAND DECODING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DECODING A COMMAND  
A command decoding system includes a main processor, an instruction memory, a memory controller, and a device controller. The main processor provides a command, and the instruction memory stores an...
US20080059708 Command queue ordering by positionally pushing access commands  
A data storage system is provided with command queue controller circuitry for positionally pushing pending access commands from a command queue to a selected target zone of a storage space. A...
US20080059707 Selective storage of data in levels of a cache memory  
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for incrementing a counter value associated with a cache line if the cache line is inserted into a first level cache, and storing the...
US20080059706 Storage apparatus, storage system and control method for storage apparatus  
A storage apparatus includes a host controller that receives a write request accompanied by write data, a cache unit that checks if space is available in any one of itself and a cache unit of an...
US20080059705 Line fill techniques  
A line fill method, line fill unit and data processing apparatus are disclosed. The line fill method, comprises the steps of: a) associating a line fill buffer with a unique identifier; b)...
US20080059704 System and method for allocation of organizational resources  
System and methods for storing electronic data is provided, where the system comprises a storage manager component and a management module associated with the storage manager component. The...
US20080059703 Semiconductor device and IC card  
A semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises a first non-volatile memory, a second non-volatile memory in which initial data is stored, and an initialization controller for...
US20080059702 Portable storage device with operating status display  
A portable storage device with operating status display is applied for a processor-based system. The portable storage device includes a storage medium, a control unit, an operating-status-analysis...
US20080059701 Data Transmission In An Arrangement Comprising A Tachograph  
An arrangement has a tachograph, an external mobile data memory device with an external second interface, the interface corresponding with the first interface, for providing data transmission. For...