| 6438457 |
Storage medium, robot, information processing device and electronic pet system |
| Aug-20-2002 |
An electronic pet having reality by various machines is implemented. An IC card stores a matter to be renewed in accordance with an action when an electronic pet takes the action on the basis of an internal... |
| 6434577 |
Scalable-remembered-set garbage collection |
| Aug-13-2002 |
A computer system's garbage collector employs remembered sets to keep track of references into car sections of a memory-space generation that it manages in accordance with the train algorithm. As it adds... |
| 6434576 |
Popular-object handling in a train-algorithm-based garbage collector |
| Aug-13-2002 |
A garbage collector that employs the train algorithm identifies popular objects by a count of references to them and places such objects into special, single-object car sections that are normally smaller... |
| 6434559 |
Critical resource management |
| Aug-13-2002 |
Critical resource management is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided. First, the method detects whether maximum utilization of a critical resource has been reached. For example,... |
| 6430455 |
Managing how current files of a product are at the time of release |
| Aug-6-2002 |
A system and method for managing the currentness of files of a product at the time of release to manufacturing. A data extractor and populator extracts attributes of features in a master model and populates... |
| 6421687 |
Data partitioning and duplication in a distributed data processing system |
| Jul-16-2002 |
A database server with a "shared nothing" system architecture has multiple nodes, each having its own central processing unit, primary and secondary memory for storing database tables and other data structures,... |
| 6421684 |
Persistent volume mount points |
| Jul-16-2002 |
Information regarding volume mount points hosted by a logical volume are stored on the physical device underlying the logical volume so that the relationships between the host logical volume and target... |
| 6415373 |
Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner |
| Jul-2-2002 |
Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent... |
| 6415301 |
Integrated retrieval system, integrated retrieval method and media recorded with integrated retrieval program in distributed file system |
| Jul-2-2002 |
An integrated retrieval system, an integrated retrieval method and a medium recorded with integrated retrieval programin a distributed file system, wherein data retrieval efficiency is improved by integrating... |
| 6411970 |
Methods and apparatus for an automatic file indexer |
| Jun-25-2002 |
The present invention provides exemplary software and related hardware for monitoring and managing documents and document properties. One embodiment provides a computer system (40) including a processor... |
| 6411969 |
Enhanced system and method for management of system database utilities |
| Jun-25-2002 |
An enhanced method for developing back-up copies of a source database by providing incremental and accumulate dump commands from various multiple-Users which enable a selection of certain files which are... |
| 6411964 |
Methods for in-place online reorganization of a database |
| Jun-25-2002 |
An in-place reorganization of a database achieves reasonably accurate results for users during high-throughput concurrent usage of the database. The reorganization's movement of records across a user transaction's... |
| 6411770 |
Data recording method and apparatus |
| Jun-25-2002 |
The endless recording which enables partial saving of recording contents and facilitates editing or management is to be achieved. To this end, if recording has been made for a pre-set time, such as one... |
| 6408314 |
Method of performing a high-performance sort which gains efficiency by reading input file blocks sequentially |
| Jun-18-2002 |
An improved method of performing a sort-merge operation on a digital computer is disclosed, which gains efficiency by reading input file blocks sequentially. The method takes into consideration the fact... |
| 6408313 |
Dynamic memory allocation based on free memory size |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A dynamic cache management mechanism determines the amount of memory available from a system on which a memory intensive application is running and dynamically manages the amount of cache for which real... |
| 6408305 |
Access frontier for demand loading pages in object-oriented databases |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A method, system and article of manufacture for providing access frontier page(s) around all accessible memory pages loaded from an object-oriented database to prevent simultaneous access by multiple threads... |
| 6401181 |
Dynamic allocation of physical memory space |
| Jun-4-2002 |
In a computer system, a system and methodology for dynamically allocating available physical memory to addressable memory space on an as needed basis, and to recover unused physical memory space when it... |
| 6397223 |
File management method using transposed file |
| May-28-2002 |
A file management system performs flexible and efficient file management with a transposed file. First, variable-length logical fields constituting the records in an original file are converted to variable-length... |
| 6393435 |
Method and means for evaluating the performance of a database system referencing files external to the database system |
| May-21-2002 |
A system and method for testing a database system which includes external file references to files stored on a remote file system. A control table within the database management system which enables controlled... |
| 6389433 |
Method and system for automatically merging files into a single instance store |
| May-14-2002 |
A method and system that operates as a background process automatically identify and merge duplicate files into a single instance files, wherein the duplicate files become independent links to the single... |
| 6389432 |
Intelligent virtual volume access |
| May-14-2002 |
A system and a method manages storage space in one or more data storage devices. This is done by receiving a request for storage space from a requester, the request specifying one or more criteria associated... |
| 6385711 |
1394 hard disk sector format selection |
| May-7-2002 |
A method, computer system and apparatus describe how a data transmission rate of incoming and outgoing data are correlated to the size of a data storage area of a medium by formatting the medium with the... |
| 6385690 |
Recording method, managing method, and recording apparatus |
| May-7-2002 |
A recording method and apparatus for recording data that is continuously input in a nonvolatile memory records the data discretely in a plurality of blocks under control of file management data, is capable... |
| 6385613 |
Resource management using resource domains |
| May-7-2002 |
A method and apparatus for managing access to resources is provided. When a process requires access to a resource, the process requests a lock on the resource from a lock manager unit that resides on the... |
| 6381631 |
Method and apparatus for controlling client computer systems |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A method and apparatus connects a user to a remote network, and enforces operation of management software before the user is allowed to perform other tasks on the remote network. The method and apparatus... |
| 6381619 |
Computer data storage system with migration plan generator |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A data storage system is provided in which a migration plan generates migration plans for reaching a goal configuration from an initial configuration in a predetermined period of time. The migration plan... |
| 6381615 |
Method and apparatus for translating virtual path file access operations to physical file path access |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A method and apparatus virtualizes file access operations and other I/O operations in operating systems by performing string substitutions upon a file paths or other resource identifiers to convert the... |
| 6378031 |
Data processing apparatus and file management method therefor |
| Apr-23-2002 |
In the data processing apparatus and file management method therefor of the present invention, when each piece of data in one of plural blocks is recorded as a data portion on a disk medium, continuous... |
| 6374340 |
Method of managing memory for a PCI bus |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A method of managing memory includes providing a memory (190) partitioned into a memory tree having N memory levels and different numbers of memory nodes (100, 110, 111, 120, 121, 122, 123, 130, 131, 132,... |
| 6374336 |
Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner |
| Apr-16-2002 |
Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent... |
| 6374269 |
Storage sub-system having expanded data read |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A storage sub-system employs a staging control information table by which staging of data to be read and redundant data thereof can be executed together to reduce response time in the event of a data read... |
| 6374268 |
Methods and systems for an incremental file system |
| Apr-16-2002 |
An incremental files system stores only changed files relative to a base set of read-only files such the each session can manipulate shared files as though dealing with a complete local snapshot copy.... |
| 6374267 |
Database backup system and method utilizing numerically identified files for incremental dumping |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A method for copying source database files for backup to a destination medium via incremental dump commands based on selecting files from a numerical identification system for spotting updated source files... |
| 6374265 |
Method for backup and recovery of the long filename in computer system |
| Apr-16-2002 |
This invention discloses a method for backup and recovery of the long filename in the computer system (e.g., DOS) that not support the long filename. The technique of the backup operation of this invention... |
| 6370549 |
Apparatus and method for searching for a file |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A method and apparatus for locating and for maintaining the locations of files within a directory tree structure. A file location request is received from a program module and a response is generated containing... |
| 6366931 |
Apparatus for and method of non-linear constraint optimization in storage system configuration |
| Apr-2-2002 |
An apparatus for and a method of non-linear constraint optimization in a storage system configuration. In accordance with the primary aspect of the present invention, the objective function for a storage... |
| 6360330 |
System and method for backing up data stored in multiple mirrors on a mass storage subsystem under control of a backup server |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A backup server controls the backing up of data stored on a mass storage subsystem in response to a backup request from a host identifying data to be backed up during a backup operation, the mass storage... |
| 6353838 |
Incremental garbage collection |
| Mar-5-2002 |
An incremental garbage collector is disclosed. Upon termination of a function or program, the incremental garbage collector scans the object heap for objects allocated by the function or program that are... |
| 6353837 |
Method and apparatus providing mass storage access from systems using different meta-data formats |
| Mar-5-2002 |
A method and apparatus for accessing storage from at least two different host computers features creating a first file having a first meta-data format and user data blocks in a mass storage medium using... |
| 6353834 |
Log based data architecture for a transactional message queuing system |
| Mar-5-2002 |
A message queuing system is provided that saves and stores messages and their state in an efficient single file on a single disk to enable rapid recovery from server failures. The single disk, single file... |
| 6349313 |
Identifying the owner responsible for processing I/O requests |
| Feb-19-2002 |
A processing system processes an I/O request and, upon interruption of the I/O request, identifies an owner of an active mount point or another entity, and then resumes processing the I/O request under... |
| 6349312 |
Method and apparatus for performing pre-allocation of memory to avoid triggering garbage collection operations |
| Feb-19-2002 |
The present invention provides a mechanism for enabling memory allocation operations to be deterministic. According to the invention, determinism is achieved by first pre-allocating a contiguous memory... |
| 6349306 |
Method and apparatus for configuration management in communications networks |
| Feb-19-2002 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring parameters that govern the operational characteristics of a network device, including the use of templates for generating configuration records of network devices of... |
| 6345283 |
Method and apparatus for forensic analysis of information stored in computer-readable media |
| Feb-5-2002 |
Ambient data is data created or retained as an artifact of a computer system, rather than by the intention of the user. Ambient data typically includes both textual and binary, i.e., non-textual, data.... |
| 6343316 |
Cooperative work support system |
| Jan-29-2002 |
The cooperative work support system of the present invention has at least a first terminal and a second terminal in a communication network, wherein each terminal comprises: a file system for storing a... |
| 6343300 |
File updating method capable of updating an operation file without interrupting online processing |
| Jan-29-2002 |
An input/output control device (11) comprises a dual processor system. Supplied with a file update request, first and second processors (12, 14) perform individual processing independently of each other.... |
| 6343298 |
Seamless multimedia branching |
| Jan-29-2002 |
Described above are methods of authoring multimedia titles and of storing and delivering multimedia content that implements guaranteed seamless branching on digital media with high seek latency and a fixed... |
| 6339786 |
Terminal device |
| Jan-15-2002 |
A data broadcasting station transmits a multiplexed signal in which multimedia data encoded in a prescribed coding system are at least multiplexed in a broadcasting form. A file manager stores the multimedia... |
| 6338072 |
Device and process for dynamically controlling the allocation of resources in a data processing system |
| Jan-8-2002 |
A system and process for dynamically controlling the allocation of resources in a "UNIX" open data processing system that includes a local resource manager, wherein the system is configured to sort jobs... |
| 6338054 |
Channel interface re-connection controlling method and file controlling apparatus |
| Jan-8-2002 |
A method and an apparatus being able to perform a re-connecting process in the order in which re-connecting factors have generated irrespective of a type of each re-connecting factor. The apparatus includes... |
