| 6721749 |
Populating a data warehouse using a pipeline approach |
| Apr-13-2004 |
Described herein is a data collection and warehousing system that collects log files from a plurality of servers, and that transforms the entries of the log files prior to using them to populate a database.... |
| 6718446 |
Storage media with benchmark representative of data originally stored thereon |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Data on a master is read into a master image file, and the master image file is manipulated to include a benchmark comprising tracking and verification information tied to at least a portion of the master... |
| 6718361 |
Method and apparatus for reliable and scalable distribution of data files in distributed networks |
| Apr-6-2004 |
The present invention provides a system and apparatus for efficient and reliable, control and distribution of data files or portions of files, applications, or other data objects in large-scale distributed... |
| 6718348 |
Non-time dependent synchronization of databases |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A first database is synchronized with a second database, wherein the first database is located in a mobile terminal. To avoid erroneous synchronization results that can occur if a timer associated with... |
| 6718347 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining coherence among copies of a database shared by multiple computers |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method for use in a computer system including first and second computers and first and second storage systems, wherein the first storage system is coupled to the first computer to store data transferred... |
| 6718346 |
Generating summary data for a requested time period having a requested start time and end time a plurality of data records |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Apparatus and method for use in a network of, for example, computers, for generating summary data, such as traffic summary information, from a plurality of data records, the data records having a different... |
| 6718332 |
Seamless importation of data |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A data transfer interface for importing data from a source system to a target system, including a source data adapter having an attribute definition transcriber for generating transcribed data, and a target... |
| 6715070 |
System and method for selectively enabling and disabling plug-ins features in a logical volume management enviornment |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A method and an apparatus for enabling and disabling features in a logical volume management environment is presented. This operation can be performed at boot time or at run time. The user is shown a list... |
| 6714951 |
Continuous journaling of objects within a hierarchical directory tree |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A system and method for automatic journaling of objects in a computer file system. A journal directory operation is caused when a new or existing object to be linked into a directory if the directory has... |
| 6711621 |
System and method of implementing netware core protocol within a sockets model |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A system and method of implementing a NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) module within a sockets model, such as a Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD) Sockets model, is disclosed wherein the NCP module has a NCP... |
| 6711591 |
Top-down control of multiple layer aggregation logical volume management data and boot record |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A system and method for control of data and boot records associated with multi-layer logical volumes allows the logical volume data area containing the fake EBR to be deterministically and efficiently... |
| 6708189 |
Computer file transfer system |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for converting a data file received by an automated publishing system from a source for use within one of a plurality of presentation spaces of the automated publishing... |
| 6708188 |
Extensible method for obtaining an historical record of data backup activity (and errors) and converting same into a canonical format |
| Mar-16-2004 |
An extensible method and system for obtaining an historical record of data backup activity (and errors) from a plurality of data backup software devices, and converting the same into a canonical format,... |
| 6704905 |
Text classifying parameter generator and a text classifier using the generated parameter |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system for generating a set of parameters for use in determining whether a given document belongs to a specified one of a plurality of predetermined categories. An evaluation sample selection... |
| 6704886 |
Data backup system having independent data restore execution |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A backup and restore system forms a persistent submit object from objects marked for restoration by a user. The submit object encapsulates the information needed to restore the work items contained in... |
| 6704755 |
Systems and methods for backing up data files |
| Mar-9-2004 |
The invention provides systems and methods for continuous back up of data stored on a computer network. To this end the systems of the invention include a synchronization process that replicates selected... |
| 6704753 |
Method of storage management in document databases |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method of storage management in document databases wherein residence times are assigned to individual documents on entry to the database. Two different residence times are preferably assigned to the... |
| 6704752 |
Method and system for executing, tracking and restoring temporary router configuration change using a centralized database |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system for transacting routing device configurations using a centralized information provider or database system. The invention receives configuration commands from a user of the router. The... |
| 6704737 |
Accessing and updating a configuration database from distributed physical locations within a process control system |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A configuration database includes multiple databases distributed at a plurality of physical locations within a process control system. The configuration database may include a master configuration database... |
| 6701455 |
Remote copy system with data integrity |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A storage system is provided which preserves data integrity, even when communications line, or similar, errors arise between the local disk system and the remote disk system. When there is no communication... |
| 6701330 |
Protecting duplicate/lost updates against host failures |
| Mar-2-2004 |
Method and apparatus for tracking messages and transactions communicated between a number of users and a number of hosts, where the hosts are executing concurrent applications. During a first user session,... |
| 6701328 |
Database management system |
| Mar-2-2004 |
This embodiment of the invention has a container 26c within which multiple groups of data, each optionally including one or more attributes (or attribution items), are stored without destroying their relational... |
| 6697822 |
Method of maintaining database records |
| Feb-24-2004 |
The present invention provides a way of managing databases when updating records in a local database where individual records in a source database are changed on a regular basis, but each record maintains... |
| 6694447 |
Apparatus and method for increasing application availability during a disaster fail-back |
| Feb-17-2004 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing availability of an application during fail-back from a secondary site to a primary site following a failure at the primary site. The... |
| 6694340 |
Technique for determining the age of the oldest reading transaction with a database object |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for identifying read claims in a database. In accordance with the present invention, the database is stored on at least one data storage device connected... |
| 6691209 |
Topological data categorization and formatting for a mass storage system |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method and apparatus for storing data in a mass storage system implementing striped RAID technology by topological categorization and ordering of the data according to the topology of the storage areas.... |
| 6691115 |
System and method for purging database update image files after completion of associated transactions for a database replication system with multiple audit logs |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method and system for purging database update image files after completion of associated transactions for a database replication system with multiple audit logs. Audit update records and audit backout... |
| 6687698 |
Accessing and updating a configuration database from distributed physical locations within a process control system |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A configuration database includes multiple databases distributed at a plurality of physical locations within a process control system. Each of the databases may be accessed by users at any of the sites... |
| 6684229 |
Method of generating a database for use in an intelligent backup and restoring system |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A method for generating a database of data resident on a primary storage device of a computer system for use in a backup system associated with the computer system includes generating a database having... |
| 6684225 |
Dropped database table recovery |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A database management system having a dropped table recovery flag. If the dropped table recovery flag is on at the time that a table is dropped, an entry will be made in a dropped table history file. The... |
| 6684223 |
Performing 2-phase commit with presumed prepare |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A mechanism for performing a two-phase commit is provided. The mechanisms perform a two-phase commit in a manner that reduces the number of messages transmitted between a coordinating database system and... |
| 6678794 |
Smoothing bursts of disk load in a file system |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A technique for asynchronous computer disk cache management reduces the burstiness of disk I/O. It provides a periodic sync process to flush modified buffers, wherein only buffers exceeding a threshold... |
| 6678788 |
Data type and topological data categorization and ordering for a mass storage system |
| Jan-13-2004 |
The storage space of a RAID striped mass storage system is topologically organized as a plurality of basic units of storage space for storing data items in data blocks. A topological data formatter includes... |
| 6678787 |
DASD-free non-volatile updates |
| Jan-13-2004 |
System for the storage and maintenance of data sets updates in a storage subsystem, that comprises direct access storage device(s) that serves as the main storage of the storage subsystem and on which... |
| 6678704 |
Method and system for controlling recovery downtime by maintaining a checkpoint value |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A method and system for reducing overhead associated with recovering after a failure. According to the method, a checkpoint value is maintained that indicates which records of a plurality of records have... |
| 6678684 |
Worldwide early warning network and method of use |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A method for determining appropriate measures for catastrophic events comprises the steps of programming a computer to continuously scan electronic news media reports for at least one of a selected group... |
| 6671705 |
Remote mirroring system, device, and method |
| Dec-30-2003 |
In a remote mirroring system, device, and method, a master storage unit stores information in a log and uses the information from the log to quickly resynchronize slave images following a failure in the... |
| 6671704 |
Method and apparatus for handling failures of resource managers in a clustered environment |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A transaction processing system manages an information collection by employing a two-phase transaction commit protocol. Transaction participants are provided a unique identifier for use in communicating... |
| 6671703 |
System and method for file transmission using file differentiation |
| Dec-30-2003 |
The present invention provides a system and method for efficiently transferring files using file differentiation. In architecture, the system includes a client device with a device file, a server device... |
| 6671700 |
Method and apparatus for parallel execution of conduits during simultaneous synchronization of databases |
| Dec-30-2003 |
Sharing information between a host computer system and a peripheral computer system. Conduit programs running simultaneously on the host computer system synchronize information between the two computer... |
| 6662196 |
Collision avoidance in bidirectional database replication |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A bidirectional database replication system includes a plurality of nodes. Each transaction at an originating node is paused prior to a commit operation. Ready to commit tokens are sent to the other nodes... |
| 6662171 |
Automated diagnostic metric loop |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A computer system that collects diagnostic information from diagnostic software as well as knowledgepath information about the path a user uses in searching a knowledgebase and provides this information... |
| 6658589 |
System and method for backup a parallel server data storage system |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A system and method for safe and effective backup and restore of parallel server databases stored in data storage systems. Parallel server databases allow multiple nodes in MPP (Massively Parallel Processor)... |
| 6658435 |
Disk image backup/restore with data preparation phase |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A method for backing up data stored using a filing system on a computer non-volatile storage device is described. First pre-defined signature data is written, using the filing system, to substantially... |
| 6658434 |
Method of and a system for recovering data in an information processing system |
| Dec-2-2003 |
In an information processing system including a central processor for generating commands to process storage data stored and for executing a sequence processing and a storage subsystem including a plurality... |
| 6654771 |
Method and system for network data replication |
| Nov-25-2003 |
Techniques are provided for replicating database changes among servers of a database system that effectively removes the inconsistency problems encountered after restoration from backup and due to removal... |
| 6654288 |
Method and device for backing up data in a memory module and memory module |
| Nov-25-2003 |
Method and device for backing up data in a non-volatile memory module and a memory module, the data being stored multiple times in the memory module, the data being backed up using at least one check identifier... |
| 6651077 |
Backup and restoration of data in an electronic database |
| Nov-18-2003 |
To avoid possible data corruption resulting from restoring data to a database from a backup set that is not valid for the database, attempted restore operations are intercepted before they are performed.... |
| 6651075 |
Support for multiple temporal snapshots of same volume |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system and method for more efficiently maintaining multiple temporal snapshots of a common base volume. When the base volume is modified, such as when existing data is overwritten with new data, that... |
| 6651074 |
Method and apparatus for storage and retrieval of very large databases using a direct pipe |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for directly connecting very large data streams from an archive command into a backup data system using an "intelligent process." An output stream-is piped into an intelligent pipe-reading... |
