| 7043738 |
Method and apparatus for managing a data imaging system using CIM providers in a distributed computer system |
| May-9-2006 |
A data imaging system is managed by a three-tiered system. The lowest, or agent, tier comprises Common Information Model (CIM) provider objects that reside in the host providing the data imaging service... |
| 7043508 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for creating stable disk images |
| May-9-2006 |
A system and method of identifying methods of quiescing a storage object. Data is received identifying the storage object and a freeze list is generated. The freeze list includes one or more freeze methods... |
| 7043507 |
System and method for validated indirect data backup using operating system I/O Operations |
| May-9-2006 |
Methods and systems to backup data are provided. A first computing device identifies data to backup and stabilizes a frozen image of that data. Next, the frozen image is decomposed into physical storage... |
| 7043506 |
Utility-based archiving |
| May-9-2006 |
A system and associated methodology is provided that is adapted to infer what to do with an item, and more particularly whether to archive and/or keep active an item in a more active, easy-to-access store... |
| 7043504 |
System and method for parallel primary and secondary backup reading in recovery of multiple shared database data sets |
| May-9-2006 |
A recovery utility apparatus for expediting recovery time during failure of one or more database data sets is provided. A backup copy restore utility is configured to read and restore a backup copy of... |
| 7039915 |
Method and apparatus for software-based allocation and scheduling of hardware resources in an electronic device |
| May-2-2006 |
An architecture and method for dynamic resource allocation and scheduling in a communication device is disclosed herein. The method of controlling hardware resources in a communication device having a... |
| 7039864 |
Method and apparatuses for management of unconsciously captured documents |
| May-2-2006 |
Methods and apparatuses for management of unconsciously captured documents are described. Various documents generated by networked devices are unconsciously captured and stored according to a non-semantic... |
| 7039778 |
Data backup method in a network storage system |
| May-2-2006 |
In a data backup method in a network storage system in which mirroring is conducted between two disk units, the mirroring is delayed by accumulating update data in a cache for a predetermined period of... |
| 7039707 |
Disk subsystem, computer system, storage managing method and program |
| May-2-2006 |
When collecting information about management of a storage of a disk subsystem, loads imposed on a host computer and a network are alleviated to improve the throughput of a computer system having the storage.... |
| 7039662 |
Method and apparatus of media management on disk-subsystem |
| May-2-2006 |
A method for migrating a block of data within a storage system includes migrating first data stored in a first storage volume of a first storage subsystem to a second storage volume in a second storage... |
| 7039661 |
Coordinated dirty block tracking |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, system, computer system, and computer-readable medium to maintain consistent, up-to-date copies of primary data that enable quick resumption of operations upon failure of the primary node, the... |
| 7039660 |
Disaster recovery processing method and apparatus and storage unit for the same |
| May-2-2006 |
Judgement is made to determine whether or not an access request from a host computer is a write request and whether or not the contents of the write request are log information indicating contents of database... |
| 7036041 |
Method, program and system for managing operation |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system, and a method, for reorganizing an execution schedule. According to the invention, the recovery time of a storage device where a failure occurs is determined. Then, according to the recovery time,... |
| 7035881 |
Organization of read-write snapshot copies in a data storage system |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A file server maintains a series of read-only snapshot copies of a production file system. A read-write snapshot copy is created based on a selected read-only snapshot copy by maintaining a set of save... |
| 7035880 |
Modular backup and retrieval system used in conjunction with a storage area network |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A modular computer storage system and method is provided for managing and directing data archiving functions. A client component is associated with one or more client devices for generating archival request.... |
| 7035880 |
Modular backup and retrieval system used in conjunction with a storage area network |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A modular computer storage system and method is provided for managing and directing data archiving functions. A client component is associated with one or more client devices for generating archival request.... |
| 7035870 |
Object locking in a shared VM environment |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system is provided which comprises multiple Java virtual machines (VMs). Each VM is capable of running a plurality of threads. The system includes at least one object which is shared between the VMs... |
| 7032091 |
Storage device and storage device control method |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A storage device includes plural storage volumes for storing data, a unit for receiving a request for update of the data at a prescribed point in time to be stored in a first of the storage volumes after... |
| 7032090 |
Method, system, and apparatus for releasing storage in a fast replication environment |
| Apr-18-2006 |
Regions of data storage involved with fast replication relationships are managed and tracked in order to maintain the integrity of the data on the source and target volumes. In response to a delete operation... |
| 7032089 |
Replica synchronization using copy-on-read technique |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method, system, and computer program product are provided to synchronize data maintained in separate storage areas using a copy-on-read technique. The separate storage areas may be distributed across... |
| 7032003 |
Hybrid replication scheme with data and actions for wireless devices |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method is provided to synchronize a local data storage on a wireless computing device with a remote data storage located on a server based upon user defined business logic stored on the server and corresponding... |
| 7031987 |
Integrating tablespaces with different block sizes |
| Apr-18-2006 |
Provided herein is a mechanism that allows a given database system to access data blocks from another database system, where data blocks from the given database system and data blocks from the other database... |
| 7031986 |
Database system with backup and recovery mechanisms |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A database system which quickly creates a snapshot copy of the backup files. The system has a plurality of database storage subsystems which are normally operating as a mirrored storage system under the... |
| 7031966 |
Method and apparatus for making independent data copies in a data processing system |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method for copying a data file from a source device to a destination device. In response to a copy command from a requesting host application identifying the source file and the storage locations in... |
| 7024529 |
Data back up method and its programs |
| Apr-4-2006 |
User data backup functions are realized through a computer, which is located on the management service provider corporation side and interfaces between a user side computer environment and a storage service... |
| 7024528 |
Storage automated replication processing |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Described are techniques used in performing data replication processing. Data is replicated on a recovery site from a production site. When a disaster occurs, the state of the replication processing is... |
| 7024526 |
Apparatus and method of null data skip remote copy |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing the performance of storage systems is described. In the making of an initial copy to a secondary subsystem, or in the initial storage of data onto a primary... |
| 7024525 |
Distributed background track processing |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Setting a plurality of table entries in a storage device includes subdividing the table entries into a N tasks, placing each of the N tasks in a memory location disposed within the storage device and accessible... |
| 7024467 |
Method and data processing system providing file I/O across multiple heterogeneous computer systems |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Bulk data is read or written by an application on a first computer system to a file on a second heterogeneous computer system. Alternatively it is read or written as bulk data directly between applications... |
| 7024435 |
Data recording device, data recording method, data reproducing device and data reproducing method |
| Apr-4-2006 |
When the size of a file which has been read out from a magnetic disc unit less than a predetermined value, a CPU the file onto a magnetic tape of a magnetic tape unit as an archive file of a standard form... |
| 7024429 |
Data replication based upon a non-destructive data model |
| Apr-4-2006 |
In a data-replication system, multi-way synchronization of copies of the data at different devices is achieved by employing a non-destructive data model. In this model, each replicated data object is represented... |
| 7024411 |
Method, system and computer program product for providing backup data for use in studying claims |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method for providing backup data utilizing a remote maintenance system acquires claim information and generates a necessary backup data item from the claim information. Further, it accesses a product... |
| 7020756 |
Data saving method and external storage device |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A data backup method, apparatus and computer program in a storage system including a first external storage device, a second external storage device, a service processor for inputting configuration information... |
| 7020669 |
Apparatus, method and system for writing data to network accessible file system while minimizing risk of cache data loss/ data corruption |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Featured are methods for writing file systems write data operations to storage medium as well as system and program embodying such a methodology. According to one aspect, the method includes storing a... |
| 7020668 |
Device for retaining important data on a preferential basis |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Data files in a storage device are ranked in the ascending order of importance. When the storage capacity of the storage device is insufficient for the addition of a new file, the files are deleted automatically... |
| 7020667 |
System and method for data retrieval and collection in a structured format |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A data collection and retrieval system and associated method allow the capture and replication of data presented at various Web pages into a database application through text parsing of the HTML source... |
| 7020665 |
File availability in distributed file storage systems |
| Mar-28-2006 |
File availability in distributed file storage systems is improved by initially placing replicas of a file or other object on different ones of multiple devices using a first process. Subsequently, the... |
| 7017076 |
Apparatus and storage system for controlling acquisition of snapshot |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A DBMS performs a checkpoint process for maintaining consistency of data. A snapshot acquisition control program detects the checkpoint process externally to the DBMS and creates a snapshot in an external... |
| 7017007 |
Disk array device and remote copying control method for disk array device |
| Mar-21-2006 |
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 interference... |
| 7016908 |
File processing method, data processing apparatus and storage medium |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A file processing method, a data processing apparatus and a storage medium divides a file into a plurality of sections and compresses each section of the file using a plurality of compression parameters,... |
| 7016897 |
Authentication referral search for LDAP |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A method, program and system for authenticating LDAP referral searches are provided. The invention comprises receiving a bind request from a LDAP referred search request and then searching the local directory... |
| 7013317 |
Method for backup and storage system |
| Mar-14-2006 |
In a structure where first and second storage devices structure a mirrored pair, at a first time, an updating process to the second storage device is stopped, and management using first and second update-management... |
| 7013316 |
System and method for synchronizing multiple database files |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system and method for efficiently synchronizing multiple databases stored on multiple computing devices. The method and system provides a duplicated database configuration where a database can either... |
| 7010693 |
Software vault |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A computer-implemented vault centrally archives an application from a client. Each application may be formed from one or more files, and each application has a unique meta description for reconstructing... |
| 7010528 |
Mechanism for running parallel application programs on metadata controller nodes |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The present invention is directed to a method for controlling file access in a multinode, shared storage, data processing system in which a one set of nodes is capable of acting as metadata controllers... |
| 7007048 |
System for information life cycle management model for data migration and replication |
| Feb-28-2006 |
The invention provides a system for information lifecycle management of storage data on a storage network architecture. The system provides for bi-directional data transfer between an information lifecycle... |
| 7007047 |
Internally consistent file system image in distributed object-based data storage |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system and method to perform a system-wide file system image without time smear in a distributed object-based data storage system. A realm manager is elected as an image master using the Distributed... |
| 7007046 |
Format for transmission file system information between a source and a destination |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system and method for updating a replicated destination file system snapshot with changes in a source file system snapshot, provides an extensible, file system-independent format to transmit a data stream... |
| 7007043 |
Storage backup system that creates mountable representations of past contents of storage volumes |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A method, computer program product, and data management appliance for scheduling mountable point-in-time views of a storage volume is disclosed. A device external to the data processing system requests... |
| 7003721 |
Safe save method of HTML files using recovery files including a list with temporary and final names for replacement files |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A computer-implemented process for replacing old files having old names on a permanent storage medium with new files in volatile memory. Some of these files may be opaque files, which are old files that... |
