49th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110302284 | Automatic Detection of a Network Interface on a Host for Accessing Networked Storage - A host computer is coupled to data storage and has access to the data storage. The host computer has multiple network interfaces, which are associated with multiple logical networks. The host computer detects a network address of the data storage, and identifies one of the network interfaces that is associated with a best-performing logical network for accessing the data storage. The host computer then receives a routing configuration that routes traffic to the data storage via the identified network interface. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302285 | UPDATE SERVER TO UPDATE RENDERED CONTENT - A method includes maintaining a list of component dependencies for components of a plurality of webpages served from a web server. A change relating to a data item in a database is detected. A first set of components that are impacted by the change relating to the data item in the database are identified. Using the list of component dependencies, a second set of components that are dependent on the first set of components are identified. A set of webpages, served from the web server to at least one browser application, that include components from the first and second sets of components are identified. From an update server, an update operation is initiated with respect to the set of webpages. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302286 | MANAGING COOLING DEVICES AND COMPUTING NODES IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE - A system for managing computing nodes and cooling devices cooling the computing nodes in an infrastructure includes one or more managers. The one or more managers receive a service request for a workload to be run on one or more of the computing nodes. Candidate workload placements for placing the workload on the one or more computing nodes are determined. A first cost associated with each candidate workload placements using a computational network model. A second cost associated with the cooling devices for each candidate workload placement is determined using a thermal network model. A cost function is minimized. The cost function determines an economic cost of operating the infrastructure while running the requested workload and is based upon the first cost, the second cost. A candidate workload placement is selected from the candidate workload placements based on the minimized cost function. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302287 | QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTROL - Method(s) for providing Quality of Service (QoS) control in a plurality of sections of a network environment are described herein. Each of the plurality of sections includes at least one device to provide QoS control in the respective section. Further, in each of the plurality of sections of the network environment, one or more fields of a WIT are identified. An application command, generated at a section of the network environment, is provided quality of service in the plurality of sections, based on the one or more fields identified from the WIT. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302288 | Enhanced Browser Cookie Management - Systems and methods of managing cookie handling settings provide for retrieving a web page based on a browser request and detecting one or more cookie requests associated with the web page being viewed rather than the web page associated with the cookie. A real-time dialog containing data corresponding to each cookie request associated with the web page being viewed may be generated while the web page is displayed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302289 | SELECTION OF A POLICY AND CHARGING RULES FUNCTION DEVICE - A system includes a first device, in a first network; a second device, in a second network; and a policy rules and charging function (PCRF) database that associates Internet Protocol (IP) addresses assigned to user equipment (UE) devices with PCRF devices; where the first device is to identify a plurality of policy rules and charging function (PCRF) devices in the first network, select a PCRF device from the plurality of PCRF devices based on a selection rule, and provide information about the selected PCRF device to the second device; and where the second device is to receive a request to set up a communication session associated with a UE device; determine an IP address associated with the UE device; identify a PCRF device, based on the determined IP address, by accessing the PCRF database, and send session information associated with the communication session to the identified PCRF device. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CHANGES IN A NETWORK DATACENTER - The system and method described herein may include a configuration management database containing various configuration items describing every known resource in a datacenter. Upon receiving a request proposing changes to the datacenter, the proposed changes may be approved for automated execution (i.e., without human intervention) in response to analyzing relationships modeled in the configuration management database and determining that the proposed changes have no potential impacts on essential or critical resources. Otherwise, an impact workflow may be created to coordinate interaction between various human participants to resolve the potential impacts. Further, in contexts where multiple proposed changes have been approved, the multiple proposed changes may be analyzed to detect any potential conflicts. Thus, the multiple proposed changes may be approved for automated execution in response to detecting no potential conflicts, or a conflict workflow may be created to similarly coordinate human interaction to resolve the conflicts. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302291 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRIORITIZING NETWORK ASSETS - Methods and systems for restoring networks to normal behavior are disclosed. For example, in various embodiments an apparatus for addressing device abnormalities in a network may include node monitoring circuitry configured to monitor device abnormalities in the network, and ranking circuitry that may receive information from the node monitoring device and, upon receiving information from the monitoring circuitry that multiple devices in the network are compromised, may provide ranking information as to which of the multiple compromised devices in the network is to be attended to first. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302292 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE ASSURANCE USING VIRTUALIZED FEDERATED PRESENCE INFRASTRUCTURE - Systems, methods, apparatuses and program products configured to provide a topology-service tool are described. A presence-federation solution asset is leveraged to address topology-federation problems. A network topology tool takes as input network endpoints, for example caller and callee telephone numbers, determines a network service flow used to connect the network endpoints, and develops a network topology view of the service flow along with associated network device related information. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302293 | RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR SHARING INFORMATION - A system and method for sharing information between users based on recognition of the users and their associated processing devices in a scene. Interactions can be physical, verbal or a combination of physical and verbal gestures. Movements of the user and other users are tracked and interactions detected between them. User processing devices are connected by detecting users within view of a capture device, the capture device detecting motion tracking data for the user, such as a skeletal model. Information sharing may be controlled by the processing devices directly, by an intermediary server, or by a combination of the processing device and an intermediary server. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302294 | SERVICE QUALITY EVALUATOR HAVING ADAPTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA - An improved method is provided for evaluating service quality of a software application residing in a computing environment. The method includes: monitoring first and second metrics indicative of performance of the software application; evaluating the first metric in relation to a first evaluation criterion; evaluating the second metric in relation to a second evaluation criterion different than the first evaluation criterion; and determining the state of service for the software application based in part on the evaluation of the second metric. Over time, the second evaluation criterion is adapted based on the outcome of the evaluation of the first metric. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING INTERDEPENDENCIES IN A NETWORK DATACENTER - The system and method described herein may include a discovery engine that scans a network datacenter to inventory resources in the datacenter and populate a configuration management database with the resource inventory. One or more destination listeners created from the resource inventory may then selectively sample monitored flows in the datacenter to model interdependencies between the inventoried resources. For example, any monitored flows originating outside the datacenter or failing to correlate with the inventoried resources may be dropped, whereby the interdependencies may be modeled from a deliberately reduced sample of the monitored flows that have information relevant to modeling relationships between resources within the datacenter. Furthermore, directionalities for the monitored flows may be determined, wherein the directionalities provide further information relevant to modeling the relationships between the resources within the datacenter. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302296 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SECURE TRANSACTIONS VIA A BROADBAND GATEWAY - A broadband gateway may be used to authorize transactions associated with one or more accounts, which may be associated with a user of the broadband gateway. The transaction may be handled by the broadband gateway. The authorizations may be performed based on information associated with the accounts, whose storage may be controlled by the broadband gateway. The broadband gateway may block and/or terminate transactions failing authentication and/or validation, which may be performed based on the stored information. The transactions may be initiated within a network serviced by the broadband gateway. The transactions may also be initiated outside the serviced network. The stored information may comprise a user profile, which may comprise a plurality of settings for controlling and/or managing authorization performed by the broadband gateway. The user profiles may be configurable by users, wherein configuration may comprise initializing and/or modifying one or more of the transaction related settings. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302297 | Agent-less Follow-me Service for Cloud-based Applications - Technologies are generally described herein for providing an agent-less follow-me service. An example web browser may be configured to receive a first link to a reference table from a portable token. The web browser may be configured to retrieve a second link to an on-going web application from the reference table. The second link may reflect a first state of the on-going web application. The web browser may be configured to open the on-going web application corresponding to the second link. As a user interacts with the on-going web application, the on-going web application may be configured to transition from the first state to a second state. The web browser may be configured to update the second link in the reference table to reflect the second state of the on-going web application. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING MULTIPLE COMPONENTS OF A MULTI-TENANT, MULTI-DOMAIN, MULTI-TIERED WEBSITE - Embodiments are described for a system and method for testing a plurality of web resources, such as web sites and/or web servers in a distributed client-server computer network. Embodiments include a method of configuring a proxy server to forward incoming HTTP requests back to a fixed port on the IP address of the sender of the incoming HTTP request to effectively remove the requirement of domain name resolution from the test environment. A reflective proxy server reflects requests from a source IP address back to that same IP address on a specific port on the testing computer to permit the testing of arbitrary web site domain names without performing DNS resolution at any step in the process, thus removing the need to modify the testing computer's host's file. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302299 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A RATE AT WHICH AN ENTITY IS POLLED - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for determining a rate at which an entity is polled. These mechanisms and methods for determining a rate at which an entity is polled can enable decreased overall server load, improved efficiency, an increased perception of responsiveness, etc. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302300 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for formatting electronic content. In one implementation, an apparatus includes an identification unit configured to identify a plurality of devices associated via a network, and a receiving unit configured to receive information corresponding to the associated devices. The information includes a function provided by the associated devices and performance data corresponding to the associated devices. A generation unit is configured to generate a first value of an execution metric describing at least one of an execution of the function by the associated devices or the performance data corresponding to the associated devices, based on at least the received information, and an output unit is configured to output the first metric value. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302301 | CAPACITY CONTROL - There are described a system, apparatus and/or method according to which collected history data from monitorable and/or manageable entities within a server estate or data centre is used to tailor a model to the past behaviour and/or loading upon individual ones or parts of ones of the entities. The tailored model can then be used to predict a future value for one or more metrics included in the history data for an entity or part of an entity under consideration. The predicted value can then be used to determine whether some form of corrective action is required in respect of the entity, entity part or some other entity or entity part. Alternatively or in addition, predicted values for more than one entity or entity part can be aggregated to determine whether some form of corrective action is required in respect of the entity, entity part or some other entity or entity part. A corrective action can be applied on an automated or on a manual basis. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302302 | ADAPTIVE MOBILE CLOUD SYSTEM USING PRIVATE VIRTUAL INTANCE AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF - An adaptive mobile cloud system using a private virtual instance (PVI) includes: a PVI automatic provisioning for generating a PVI by providing a hardware resource, an operating system and an application which are requested by a user terminal; a PVI image manager for storing and managing an image of an execution state of the PVI by checking a state of the PVI; a mobile interface adaptor that is adaptively operated according to an input/output device and resources of the user terminal; and an adaptive application manager for executing an application by adaptive cooperation between the user terminal and the PVI according to the resource of the user terminal. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302303 | System & Method for Managing Transfers of Digital Assets Over a Network - Digital media assets are managed within an electronic network distribution system. A management computing system coupled to the network prepares a digital asset for transfer over the network in accordance with a set of distribution rules. A modified version of the digital asset includes a unique identification number associated with a first instantiation of the digital asset. The management computing system tracks transfers of the digital asset based on separate instantiations of the asset created for each transfer occurring over the network. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302304 | SERVICE PROVIDER OPTIMIZATION OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A system and method for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request for an original resource and any embedded resource. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine a set of service providers for alternatively hosting, processing, and/or transmitting at least a portion of the original resource and/or any embedded resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent resource requests for the original resource and any embedded resources using each of a variety of alternative set(s) of service providers. The processing device may also consider service provider selection criteria obtained from the original content provider. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations associated with monitoring the operation and performance of service providers with respect to specific resource requests are also provided. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302305 | ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR IT APPARATUSES FROM WHICH EVENT INFORMATION IS NOT OBTAINED - In the system management server, an information processing apparatus that is an event-information acquisition target is registered as a monitored apparatus in configuration information; event information that complies with a rule stored in advance is identified from among a plurality of pieces of event information stored in the system management server; a server apparatus for a network service related to the event information is identified; and a message is displayed which indicates that the cause of the event that occurred in a client information processing apparatus which has generated event information is an event related to the network service, which occurred in the server apparatus. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302306 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING WEB ACTIVITY - Systems and methods of tracking activity over networks and, in particular, tracking web activity over the Internet are described. Exemplary systems and methods may include a receiver for receiving a request from a visitor for a data object, a processor for providing a cookie to track the visitor's web activity, and a transmitter for transmitting the cookie to the visitor in response to the request. The cookie may comprise tracking information for a plurality of web sites visited by the visitor. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302307 | REPORTING PROCESSING METHOD, ORIGIN SERVER AND USER CLIENT FOR USER AGENT PROFILE INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a reporting processing method for User Agent Profile (UAP) information including: issuing, by an origin server, a reporting policy to a user client to instruct the user client to report UAP information according to the reporting policy; and reporting, by the user client, the UAP information according to the reporting policy issued by the origin server. The invention also discloses an origin server including a reporting policy issuing unit adapted to issue a reporting policy to a user client to instruct the user client to report UAP information according to the reporting policy; and a UAP user client including a UAP information reporting unit adapted to report UAP information of the user client according to a reporting policy issued by the origin server. The invention can enable the user client in a UAP system to report the UAP information with more flexibility and diversity. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302308 | Method and System for Providing User-Generated Content Via a Gateway - A method and system are provided in which a broadband gateway may be operable to handle at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. The broadband gateway may receive content and associated metadata through the at least one network access service provider. The broadband gateway may determine, based on the received metadata and on one or more rules associated with a user profile, whether to enable access to at least a portion of the received content by a device connected in a peer-to-peer configuration with the broadband gateway. The broadband gateway may communicate to such device an indication that at least a portion of the received content is available for sharing. The metadata may comprise rating information, copyright information, language information, and privacy rules. The rating information may be modified based on information received by the broadband gateway from other users. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302309 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A HOME NETWORK VIA A BROADBAND GATEWAY - A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, handles at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. Before allowing the devices to access content from the service provider, the broadband gateway may identify a device power profile for each of the devices, and a network power profile for the content to select a corresponding content delivery mechanism to optimize power consumption. The content may be communicated to the devices utilizing the corresponding selected content delivery mechanism. Depending on configuration, content transcoding may be performed at the broadband gateway and/or at the devices. The content may be burst downloaded and stored in a local storage to be consumed by the devices thereafter. Upon completion of download, the broadband gateway may shut down receiving components to save resources and power. The receiving components may be tuned on to receive additional content when needed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302310 | LAYERED ACCESS CONTROL FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A layered approach to access control is used where each access control layer implements a set of access control rules. The access control rules in each layer are applied in order beginning with the first access control layer. To gain access to the network, the access attempt must not be barred by any access control layer. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302311 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECIPIENT CONTROLLED COMMUNICATIONS - A communication system is provided in which users associate handling data identifying how messages are to be processed with contact data. Handling data for the identified contacts in the contact data is then dispatched to those contacts. Subsequently when messages are dispatched from the locations identified by the contact data a sender of a message selects handling data to be associated with a message being dispatched. Upon receipt of a message associated with handling data the message is then processed in the manner identified by the handling data. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302312 | CLOUD RESOURCE PROXY WITH ATTRIBUTE MIRRORING - In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or system described can provide one or more solutions for controlling and managing cloud-based computing resources by providing a bridge between traditional management approaches in an enterprise and cloud-based approaches. These approaches are moving into the enterprise environment and will require re-architecting of systems and software and training of personnel to be successful. By abstracting away the cloud resources and making the cloud resources appear as local resources, the complexity of management and control can be greatly reduced. In one or more embodiments, local enterprise system can interface with a reverse proxy that can provide a single or uniform application programming interface to one or multiple cloud-based computing resources. This approach, using the reverse proxy that can provide a single or uniform application programming interface, can reduce the complexity of management and control of the cloud-based computing resource(s). | 2011-12-08 |
20110302313 | Method and System for Utilizing a Gateway to Enable Peer-to-Peer Communications in Service Provider Networks - A broadband gateway may be operable to receive network topology information to enable peer-to-peer communications between a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device is communicatively coupled to the broadband gateway. The broadband gateway may be operable to handle at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. A communication link which may bypass core layer network components and/or resources for enabling the peer-to-peer communications between the first communication device and the second communication device may be established by the broadband gateway, based on the received network topology information, a location of the first communication device and a location of the second communication device. The broadband gateway may establish the communication link to enable the peer-to-peer communications by marking traffic such as by inserting QinQ tags into traffic between the first communication device and the second communication device. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302314 | EDGE TRAVERSAL SERVICE DORMANCY - A system maintains a dormant state in the host, in which no beacons (or “bubbles”) are transmitted from the host when no application or service (collectively, “processes”) of the host is accepting unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service. When at least one application or service begins to accept unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service, the host enters a qualified state and begins transmitting the beacons. As each additional application or service begins to accept such traffic, the number of accepting applications and services is maintained. As applications and services terminate acceptance of such traffic, the number of accepting applications and services is decremented. When the last application or service terminates acceptance of unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service, the host re-enters the dormant state and ceases transmission of its beacons. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302315 | DISTRIBUTED SERVICES AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing resource authorization to users of a distributed memory store (e.g., a distributed web-based cloud service). A session ID that identifies a location of an authorization document in a distributed memory store is used to access the authorization document, which comprises a global section with a principal ID related to a user. The user can be authorized to utilize a resource (e.g., in a distributed cloud service) if a resource section is present for the principal ID in the authorization document, and has appropriate resource data for the resource. If the resource section is not present, it can be created in the authorization document, and identified by a resource identifier. Authorization data can be loaded into the newly created resource section, and the authorization document, with the global and resource sections, is saved to a local cache for the distributed memory store. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND USING SESSIONS AS RESTful WEB SERVICES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing and using sessions as RESTful web services. A session is exposed as a resource having an associated Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), and the session is composed with other services. For example, a client sends an HTTP POST request to a web server to create a session, an HTTP GET request to retrieve a representation of the session, an HTTP PUT request to update the representation of the session, and an HTTP DELETE request to delete the session so that resources within the session are reclaimed. Since the sessions are resources, the resources can be shared among clients, and the web servers knows the client states while still being stateless, making them robust and scalable. Composing web services with the common RESTful session service reduces complexity and enhances interoperability. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302317 | MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM, MEDIA PLAYER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED STREAMING CONTENT - A multimedia system, a media player, and a method for generating a personalized streaming content are provided. The method includes following steps. A play habit of a user operation is recorded into a feature log in the media player. A download request is issued to at least one server through the Internet according to the feature log and a server list. A personalized streaming content corresponding to the play habit is downloaded from the server. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302318 | ANONYMOUS RE-STREAMING OF MEDIA ITEM OF CONTENT - Particular embodiments include a method of operating a processing system, an apparatus, logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method, and a tangible computer-readable storage medium configured with instructions that when executed cause carrying out the method. The method comprising: (a) as a result of a request for a stream of a first item of content, receiving the stream of the first item of content and providing an indication that a foreign stream is being received; (b) unless there is an indication that a foreign stream is being received, streaming a default item of content to a local media player; and (c) in the case there is an indication that a foreign stream is being received, re-streaming the received stream of the first item of content, such that local media player renders the requested stream of the first item of content. In some versions, the re-streamed first item of content mimics the default item of content. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING BASED ON PLURALITY OF ELEMENTS FOR DETERMINING QUALITY OF CONTENT - A method and apparatus are provided for performing adaptive streaming according to a streaming environment based on information about a plurality of elements for determining qualities of a plurality of media data with respect to the same content. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK CONTENT DELIVERY - A content delivery system including a subscriber controller and cache, a source controller configured to transmit content to the subscriber controller and cache via a multicast transmission; and a network content delivery controller (NCDC) in communication with the subscriber controller and cache and source controller. A control plane is used to communicate the delivery of control information using Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) between the subscriber controller and cache, source controller, and NCDC. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302321 | DATA REDIRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A data redirection system and method comprises a first and second redirector in one or more embodiments. The first redirector may receive and respond to requests for a network service by redirecting a client's request to the second redirector. The second redirector may receive and respond to the redirected request by sending a network address of a gateway. The gateway may provide an enhanced communication link with a network resource providing the network service. In this manner, communications used to provide the network service may be redirected to the enhanced communication link. The requests for a network service and responses to the requests will typically be communicated over a standard communication link. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302322 | DOMAIN NAME SERVICE RESOLVER - A content delivery network (CDN) for providing content objects and domain resolution. The CDN includes a connection with a terminal device, a second domain name service (DNS) system, an IP address store for holding authoritative Internet protocol (IP) addresses, and a content store holding at least one of the first or second content object. A first request to resolve a first domain name is received by the second DNS system at a second location. A second request to resolve a second domain name is received by the second DNS system at the second location. The first domain name is associated with a first content object, and the second domain name is associated with a second content object. The first and second requests are relayed with the terminal device, which receives Internet access from an access network. The access network comprises a first DNS system that functions in a recursing DNS mode. The content object is realized in a first location that is different from the second location of the terminal device. The second DNS system operates in a recursing DNS mode to retrieve a first IP address corresponding to the first domain name. The first IP address for the first domain name is returned from the second DNS system to the terminal device to fulfill the first request. The second DNS system operates in an authoritative DNS mode to retrieve a second IP address from the IP address store. The second IP address for the second domain name is returned from the second DNS system to the terminal device to fulfill the second request. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302323 | Central server, proxy server arrangement for use in the distribution of information on the internet - In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a proxy server comprising a computer program product is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the computer program product is disposed on a computer readable media, and the product includes computer executable process steps operable to control a computer to: implement a proxy server operable to receive a rule protocol for modification of information received via the Internet, according to instructions caused by an entity that generates content related to the information, and to modify content by the proxy server, of information received via the Internet, according to the rule protocol. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302324 | CUSTOMIZED DELIVERY OF CONTENT BY A BROADBAND GATEWAY - Aspects of a method and system for customized delivery of content by a broadband gateway are provided. A broadband gateway may be operable to determine one or more characteristics of acquired content. The gateway may be operable to determine, based on the determined characteristics and based attributes of one or more electronic devices that will be utilized for consuming the content, whether the acquired content may be compatible with the device(s). In instances that the acquired content is not compatible with the device(s), the gateway may transcode the acquired content to make it compatible with the device(s). The one or more characteristics may comprise an identity or a type of a provider associated with the acquired content, a quality of the acquired content, and/or power consumption associated with communicating the acquired content to a destination device, and/or power consumption associated with presenting or otherwise processing the acquired content on a destination device. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302325 | Intermediary Content Provider - Methods of providing published content are presented. Content providers, including advertisers, can have their network addresses become black listed through no fault of their own. Content providers can utilize one or more intermediary providers each having their own distinct network address, possibly a registered domain name. An advertiser or other content provider can engage members of a distribution channel to disseminate promotional information to consumers where the promotional information comprises a network address of the intermediary provider. Upon a request directed toward the network address, the intermediary transforms published content obtained from the primary provider to make the content appear as though it originated from the intermediary provider. Should a black listing event occur, only the intermediary provider would be affected. An updated or new intermediary provider having a new, distinct network address can be instantiated to replace the black listed provider. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302326 | PARTITIONING A DATA STREAM USING EMBEDDED ANCHORS - Selecting a segment boundary within block b is disclosed. A first anchor location j|j+1 is identified wherein a value of f(b[j−A+1 . . . j+B]) satisfies a constraint and wherein A and B are non-negative integers. A segment boundary location k|k+1 is determined wherein k is greater than minimum distance from j. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302327 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING A SYNCHRONIZATION OF DATA - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for performing a synchronization of data. These mechanisms and methods for performing a synchronization of data can enable a more efficient synchronization, time and resource savings, an enhanced user experience, etc. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302328 | COMMAND INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate within a memory to execute internal commands, to suspend the execution of commands during a transfer period, and to execute external commands following the transfer period. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302329 | Embedded Programmable Module for Host Controller Configurability - An apparatus comprises a programmable logic device coupled to an interconnect is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a non-volatile memory to store code for programming the programmable logic device. A controller will program the programmable logic device such that the interconnect is operable in a number of modes associated with a number of input/output devices. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302330 | SAFELY SHARING USB DEVICES - Described herein are systems and methods for preventing a user mode USB driver from performing IOCTL operations other than read-safe IOCTLs on a USB device that has been claimed by a kernel mode driver or is in use by another user mode USB driver. In one method, it is determined whether a kernel mode USB driver will claim a device or whether the device will be available to be claimed by user mode USB drivers. In the event the device is claimed by a kernel mode USB driver, user mode USB drivers will be prevented from claiming the device. In the event the device is available for use by user mode USB drivers, but has been opened for write by one user mode USB driver, all other user mode USB drivers will be prevented from claiming the device. All IOCTL operations other than read-safe IOCTLs will be prevented from being performed by a user mode USB driver unless that USB driver has claimed the device. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302331 | Dual Mode DP and HDMI Transmitter - A system and method for dual mode DP and HDMI transmission are provided. Briefly described, one embodiment of a dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter, among others, can be implemented as follows. The dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter comprises a driver circuit controlled by a data signal. The dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter also comprises a control circuit coupled to the driver circuit. The control circuit is configurable to transmit the data signal in a DP mode or a HDMI mode according to a mode signal. One embodiment of a method, among others, comprises: receiving a mode signal; determining whether to configure the dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter for transmitting in a DP mode or an HDMI mode based on the received mode signal; and configuring a dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter in accordance with the determination. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302332 | METHOD OF MONITORING DEVICE FORMING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A monitoring apparatus communicatively coupled to one or more devices forming an information processing system manages each of the devices by setting the device to be in any one of monitoring states including a monitoring target to be always monitored, a semi-monitoring target to be determined if there is a change in resources and a non-monitoring target being neither the monitoring target nor the semi-monitoring target. The monitoring apparatus newly acquires resource information on a device whose monitoring state is currently set to be the monitoring target or the semi-monitoring target, and determines if any of the resources of the device is changed on the basis of the newly acquired resource information, the resource information acquired last time, and a determination condition. When determining that any of the resources has been changed, the monitoring apparatus outputs a screen prompting a change of the monitoring state of the device. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302333 | Methods and Apparatus for Providing Bit-Reversal and Multicast Functions Utilizing DMA Controller - Techniques for providing improved data distribution to and collection from multiple memories are described. Such memories are often associated with and local to processing elements (PEs) within an array processor. Improved data transfer control within a data processing system provides support for radix 2, 4 and 8 fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms through data reordering or bit-reversed addressing across multiple PEs, carried out concurrently with FFT computation on a digital signal processor (DSP) array by a DMA unit. Parallel data distribution and collection through forms of multicast and packet-gather operations are also supported. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302334 | Flow Control in Real-Time Transmission of Non-Uniform Data Rate Encoded Video Over a Universal Serial Bus - A method is provided that includes coding pictures by a video encoder in a digital camera to form a compressed video bit stream for real-time transmission to a host digital system coupled to the digital camera by a universal serial bus (USB), wherein an output data rate of the video encoder is at least sometimes higher than an operating data rate of the host digital system, and applying flow control in the digital camera to maintain an output data rate over the USB to the host digital system of the compressed video bit stream below the operating data rate of the host digital system. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302335 | ON-VEHICLE DEVICE - An on-vehicle device with a storage unit that includes a transfer unit that transfers data stored in the storage unit to another on-vehicle device of equal capability that is also equipped with a storage unit. In the on-vehicle device, the transfer unit is configured by a data transfer jack provided to each of the on-vehicle device and the another on-vehicle device, and a data transfer cable for connecting the transfer jacks. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302336 | Resolving Contention Between Data Bursts - In an embedded system, there are a plurality of data requesting devices, a plurality of data sources and a bus fabric interconnecting the data requesting devices and the data sources, wherein the bus fabric comprises a plurality of bus components. Some or all of the data sources and arbitration devices associated with the bus components resolve contentions between data bursts by selecting a first one of the contending data bursts; determining a length of a critical section of the first selected data burst; and processing the critical section of the selected data burst. Then, a second one of the contending data bursts is selected, a length of a critical section of the second selected data burst is determined, and the critical section of the second selected data burst is processed before a non-critical section of the selected data burst. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302337 | PATH SELECTION FOR APPLICATION COMMANDS - Systems and methods for path selection for application commands are described. To this end, information associated with at least one application command that were processed at least one port of a target device is received. For a subsequent application command, a set of ports of the target device is determined. In one implementation, the set of ports is determined based on information associated with the subsequent application command. Once the set of ports is determined, the subsequent application command is directed to a port selected from the set of ports. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302338 | MICROCONTROLLER - A microcontroller is disclosed, which includes a memory, a first storage unit, a plurality of second storage units, a multiplexer and a micro-controller unit (MCU). The first storage unit is for being written into with a first code. The second storage units are for being written into with a plurality of second codes. The multiplexer writes the first code and one of the said second codes into the memory according to a control signal so that the memory generates a system code. The MCU reads out the system code come from the memory to perform operations. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302339 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A data transfer apparatus includes a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports and a switch unit between the plurality of input ports and the plurality of output ports. Each input port includes an input buffer configured to store input data including destination information indicating destinations of respective pieces of the input data, a first buffer monitoring unit configured to monitor a first usage rate of the input buffer, and a first frequency control unit configured to control a first operating frequency of the input buffer on the basis of the first usage rate. Each output port includes an output buffer configured to store output data, a second buffer monitoring unit configured to monitor a second usage rate of the output buffer, and a second frequency control unit configured to control a second operating frequency of the output buffer on the basis of the second usage rate. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD DETECTING CABLE PLUG STATUS IN DISPLAY DEVICE - A timing controller provides a cable plug status detection function by receiving a reference lock signal from a graphics system connected via a constituent cable and comparing the reference lock signal to one or more reference time periods to determine the cable plug status. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302341 | Data Flow Control and Bridging Architecture Enhancing Performance of Removable Data Storage Systems - A data flow control and bridging architecture that enhances the performance of removable data storage systems. In one implementation, the present invention provides a bypass bus implementation where the data transfer phase associated with select commands occurs directly between the host computing system and the target removable data storage unit. In one implementation, the present invention further provides a data flow and bridging architecture that emulates a removable media interface, such as the ATAPI interface, to the host computing system, and translates these commands for a target removable storage unit that implements a fixed media interface, such as the ATA interface. In yet another implementation, the present invention provides a data flow and bridging architecture that supports the serial ATA interface. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302342 | SMART CARD SET PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION - A method of facilitating communications between a computer device and a smart card reader having an associated smart card, the computer device including a smart card resource manager and a smart card reader service, the smart card reader service acting as a relay for commands between the smart card resource manager and the smart card reader, the method comprising: receiving from the smart card resource manager a first command for setting a protocol for communications with the smart card; and responding, prior to receiving a reply from the smart card to the first command, to the smart card resource manager with a message indicating that the smart card has successfully received the first command. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INSTANT-ON FUNCTIONALITY ON AN EMBEDDED CONTROLLER - Systems and methods for providing instant-on functionality on an embedded controller are disclosed. A method of providing instant-on functionality on a controller comprises an initial state, an intermediate state and a final state. The initial state comprises installing a first responder code, enabling the first responder code and enabling a timer interrupt service routine. The intermediate state comprises registering the first responder code as a timer interrupt service routine. The timer interrupt service routine initiates periodic processing. The final state comprises registering a steady-state interrupt service routine. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302344 | I2C ADDRESS TRANSLATION - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, devices and methods for translating I2C addresses. In accordance with an embodiment, a method for translating an I2C address includes receiving an original I2C address from a first I2C compatible device via an I2C-bus to which the first I2C compatible device is connected. The method also includes translating the original I2C address to a translated I2C address, and outputting the translated I2C address to a second I2C compatible device via a secondary side of the I2C-bus to which the slave device is connected. The original I2C address can be translated to the translated I2C address by subtracting an offset value from (or adding an offset value to) the original I2C address to produce the translated I2C address. Such an offset value can be specified using pin strapping, or by storing the offset value in a register or non-volatile memory that is programmable via the-I2C bus. Alternatively, a look-up-table, that is programmable via the I2C-bus, can be used to perform the I2C address translation. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302345 | NETWORK ON CHIP (NOC) WITH QOS FEATURES - Quality-of-Service (QoS) is an important system-level requirement in the design and implementation of on-chip networks. QoS requirements can be implemented in an on-chip-interconnect by providing for at least two signals indicating priority at a transaction-level interface where one signal transfers information in-band with the transaction and the other signal transfers information out-of-band with the transaction. The signals can be processed by the on-chip-interconnect to deliver the required QoS. In addition, the disclosed embodiments can be extended to a Network-on-Chip (NoC). | 2011-12-08 |
20110302346 | REDUCING CABLING COMPLEXITY IN LARGE-SCALE NETWORKS - High speed switching networks can be created with a minimum of cabling complexity using pod switches that are connected to a core switch array. Each pod switch can include line cards arranged in parallel connecting on one side of a midplane circuit board that is orthogonal to the line cards and uplink cards also arranged in parallel connecting on an opposite side of the midplane circuit board. The uplink cards are orthogonal to both the midplane circuit board and to the line cards. Each line card provides links to computing nodes. The up-link cards connect to the core switch array. A simplified novel Ethernet extension protocol can be used in conjunction with the described hardware. Systems, methods, techniques, and articles of manufacture are also described. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302347 | Class-Based Compatibility Testing and Notification - A mobile computing device (MCD) can determine, based on model-specific test result information, whether an accessory may be incompatible with specific MCD functions. In some embodiments, the accessory provides test result information separately indicating a test result for each of a number of MCD models. Multiple MCD models can be grouped into a device class, and the MCD can deem the accessory compatible if he received test result information indicates a pass result for at least one of the device models associated with a device class to which the MCD belongs. If the accessory is not deemed to be compatible with the mobile computing device, the MCD can generate a warning. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302348 | CLOUD COMPUTER - A cloud computer includes a base, a host, and a battery, in which the host includes a motherboard, a memory connected to the motherboard, and a base connector connected to the motherboard, and the base includes a host connector corresponding to the base connector of the host, and a plurality of input/output ports to connect to peripherals. The battery is mounted on the host and connects to the motherboard to provide electronic power to the motherboard, and the host is detachably connected with the base. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302349 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE OPERATIONS OF AN INTEGRATED NON-TRANSPARENT BRIDGE DEVICE - A method and system to improve the operations of an integrated non-transparent bridge device (NTB) that is coupled to another NTB device or Root Port device. The integrated NTB device has logic to maintain ordering of interrupts to be sent to the remote Root Port or NTB device. The integrated NTB device allocates a contiguous portion of the memory for both the primary Base Address Register 0 associated with the integrated NTB device and the secondary BAR0 associated with the remote NTB device. The integrated NTB device has logic to report the size of the primary BAR0 as the combined size of the primary BAR0 and the size of the secondary BAR0. The integrated NTB device facilitates the dynamic modification of a mapping of each bit of a doorbell register with a respective one of a plurality of interrupt vectors based on a mapping register. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302350 | Switching interface method for a multi-interface storage device - The present invention discloses a switching interface method for multi-interface storage device having a transmission interfaces and a predetermining list that stores different priority weights for the transmission interfaces. When the storage device connects to a computer, the switching interface method is executed and one of the transmission interfaces is selected to communicate with the computer according to the priority weight in sequence. In addition, a user's interface is also provided for the user, and the user can switch other transmission interface of the multi-interface storage device to link to the computer. Therefore, the multi-interface storage device may link to most of the computers and successfully communicate with the computer. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302351 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SENSOR POLLING - A device may include polling logic configured to store a table of received addresses, sequentially receive sensor data from each address in the table via a serial data bus, store the sensor data in a memory, receive an address from a processor via a high speed data bus, and provide stored sensor data from the memory to the processor via a parallel data bus. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302352 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device - A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302353 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH EXTENDED OPERATING TEMPERATURE RANGE - A method and apparatus are described for measuring a temperature within a non-volatile memory and refreshing at least a portion of the non-volatile memory when the temperature exceeds a threshold temperature for an amount of time. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302354 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELIABLE MULTI-LEVEL CELL FLASH STORAGE - Multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory has become widely used due to their capacity to store more information in the same area as a single-level cell (SLC) flash memory. This makes MLC flash memory very attractive for storing media. Flash has also traditionally been used in electronic devices for firmware, but MLC flash is less reliable than SLC flash. For critical memory operations, MLC flash memory can be made as reliable as SLC flash by mapping one binary value to an MLC state corresponding to the highest threshold voltage and the other binary value to the MLC state corresponding the lowest threshold voltage when writing to the MLC flash, and by mapping all MLC states with corresponding threshold voltages above a central cutoff threshold voltage to one binary value and by mapping all MLC states with corresponding threshold voltages below a central cutoff threshold voltage to the other binary value. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302355 | MAPPING AND WRITTING METHOD IN MEMORY DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE MEMORY CHIPS - The invention is directed to a mapping method in a memory device with a plurality of memory chips in a sequence of 0 to K, K≧1. Each of the memory chips has a plurality of data blocks. The mapping method includes setting a block sequence number “(K+1)*n” to the (n+1) | 2011-12-08 |
20110302356 | SCALABLE MEMORY INTERFACE SYSTEM - A memory interface system can include a memory controller configured to operate at a first operating frequency. A physical interface block can be coupled to the memory controller. The physical interface block can be configured to communicate with the memory controller at the first operating frequency and communicate with a memory device at a second operating frequency that is independent of the first operating frequency. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302357 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC MULTI-LINK COMPILATION PARTITIONING - Systems and methods for dynamic multi-link compilation partitioning. In particular, some implementations of the present invention relate to systems and methods for connecting a computer processing unit to a video display through the use of a wide variety of video display connectors. The present invention further relates to a dynamic interface incorporating USB, PCI-express, SATA, I | 2011-12-08 |
20110302358 | Flash-Memory Device with RAID-type Controller - A smart flash drive has one or more levels of smart storage switches and a lower level of single-chip flash devices (SCFD's). A SCFD contains flash memory and controllers that perform low-level bad-block mapping and wear-leveling and logical-to-physical block mapping. The SCFD report their capacity, arrangement, and maximum wear-level count (WLC) and bad block number (BBN) to the upstream smart storage switch, which stores this information in a structure register. The smart storage switch selects the SCFD with the maximum BBN as the target and the SCFD with the lowest maximum WLC as the source of a swap for wear leveling when a WLC exceeds a threshold that rises over time. A top-level smart storage switch receives consolidated capacity, arrangement, WLC, and BBN information from lower-level smart storage switch. Data is striped and optionally scrambled by Redundant Array of Individual Disks (RAID) controllers in all levels of smart storage switches. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302359 | METHOD FOR MANAGING FLASH MEMORIES HAVING MIXED MEMORY TYPES - A method manages a flash memory having a plurality of physical blocks. The blocks of the memory are addressed by logic block addresses which are converted into physical block addresses. In each block a deletion counter is run in which the number of deletions of the block is counted, and two regions having different types of flash chips are present. A first region contains single-level flash chips with a large maximum deletion frequency, and a second region contains multi-level flash chips with a lower maximum deletion frequency. When writing to the memory the address conversion of the logic addresses into physical addresses is carried out such that all blocks of the first region are written, when all blocks of the first region have been written and a further writing process is initiated, the block in the first region having the lowest deletion counter is copied into a blank block in the second region. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302360 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REALLOCATING ADDRESSABLE SPACES WITHIN MEMORY DEVICES - Integrated circuit systems include a non-volatile memory device (e.g, flash EEPROM device) and a memory processing circuit. The memory processing circuit is electrically coupled to the non-volatile memory device. The memory processing circuit is configured to reallocate addressable space within the non-volatile memory device. This reallocation is performed by increasing a number of physical addresses within the non-volatile memory device that are reserved as redundant memory addresses, in response to a capacity adjust command received by the memory processing circuit. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302361 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEMORY SYSTEM - A plurality of free-block management lists for respectively managing a logical block with a same bank number, a same chip number, and a same plane number as a free block, and a free block selecting unit that selects a required number of free-block management lists from the free-block management lists to obtain a free block from the selected free-block management lists are provided, thereby improving writing efficiency. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CACHING INFORMATION - A system and method is provided wherein, in one aspect, a currently-requested item of information is stored in a cache based on whether it has been previously requested and, if so, the time of the previous request. If the item has not been previously requested, it may not be stored in the cache. If the subject item has been previously requested, it may or may not be cached based on a comparison of durations, namely (1) the duration of time between the current request and the previous request for the subject item and (2) for each other item in the cache, the duration of time between the current request and the previous request for the other item. If the duration associated with the subject item is less than the duration of another item in the cache, the subject item may be stored in the cache. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302363 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES, CARDS, AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING SHALLOW TRENCH ISOLATION STRUCTURES WITH BURIED BIT LINES - A non-volatile memory device can include a buried bit line in a substrate of a non-volatile memory device and a self-aligned shallow trench isolation region in the substrate that is self-aligned to the buried bit line. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302364 | DATA WRITING METHOD FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY AND CONTROLLER USING THE SAME - A data writing method for a non-volatile memory is provided, wherein the non-volatile memory includes a data area and a spare area. In the data writing method, a plurality of blocks in a substitution area of the non-volatile memory is respectively used for substituting a plurality of blocks in the data area, wherein data to be written into the blocks in the data area is written into the blocks in the substitution area, and the blocks in the substitution area are selected from the spare area of the non-volatile memory. A plurality of temporary blocks of the non-volatile memory is used as a temporary area of the blocks in the substitution area, wherein the temporary area is used for temporarily storing the data to be written into the blocks in the substitution area. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302365 | STORAGE SYSTEM USING A RAPID STORAGE DEVICE AS A CACHE - Provided is a storage system using a high speed storage device as a cache. The storage system includes a large-volume of first storage device, a high speed second storage device, and a Random Access Memory (RAM). The large-volume of first storage device corresponds to a Hard Disk Drive (HDD), and the high speed second storage device corresponds to a Solid State Drive (SSD). Also, the high speed second drive is used as a cache. The first storage device manages content files super block by super block, and the second storage device manages cache files block by block. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302366 | Memory expansion using rank aggregation - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a memory controller, a request to access memory stored at memory modules, the request directed to one of a plurality of logical ranks, mapping at a rank aggregator, the logical rank to one of a plurality of physical ranks at the memory modules, and forwarding the request to one of the memory modules according to the mapping. Two or more of the memory modules are combined to represent the number of logical ranks at the memory controller such that there is a one-to-one mapping between the logical ranks and the physical ranks. An apparatus for rank aggregation is also disclosed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302367 | Write Buffer for Improved DRAM Write Access Patterns - The present invention relates to a method and respective system for operating a DRAM main memory. One buffer line is provided for multiple pages. When writing data to the buffer it is decided which to which buffer-line the data is written to based on its destination main memory address. A tuple consisting of lower memory address and data is stored. Data entered into the buffer-line will be sorted by page in case the line is flushed to the main memory. Sorting the buffer entries results in less page openings and closings, since the data is re-arranged by memory address and therefore in logical order. By using one line for multiple pages only a fraction of memory of a common set-associative cache is needed, thus decreasing the amount of overhead significantly. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302368 | STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING SAS AS ITS BACKEND COMMUNICATION STANDARD - Each communication path between controllers and a plurality of storage devices has a plurality of expanders coupled in series. In order to shorten the time during which the communication path is not used for I/O, either (A) the length of time for which I/O suppression is set for the communication path is shortened, or (B) the overall time it takes for processing other than I/O processing is shortened. In the (A), a determination as to whether or not the coupling between the expanders has been disconnected is made for the I/O-suppressed communication path, and in a case where the result of this determination is negative, a discover process is carried out after releasing the I/O suppression with respect to this communication path. In the (B), the number of command issue times of updating routing control information of the expander is reduced. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302369 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A storage apparatus includes a storage unit including plural storage media, and a controller for controlling the storage unit. After a new storage medium has been added to the storage unit, the controller causes the new storage medium to store error correction codes for data stored in the respective storage media pre-existing in the storage unit. When new data is stored in the storage unit after the addition of the new storage medium, the controller causes the pre-existing storage media and the new storage medium to dispersedly store the new data and error correction codes for the new data. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302370 | VIRTUALIZATION METHOD AND STORAGE APPARATUS FOR A STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING EXTERNAL CONNECTIVITY - A virtualization method for a storage system recognizes one or more logical devices located in a first and second storage apparatus and defined in a host apparatus as being connected to a channel, based on an inquiry command sent from the host apparatus when the channel comes on-line; detects one or more logical devices among the one or more logical devices defined in the host apparatus as being connected to the channel and located in the first and second storage apparatus, based on the recognition result; sets, based on the detection result, one or more virtual volumes in the first storage apparatus, respectively corresponding to the one or more logical devices in the second storage apparatus; and sets a first logical path between each of the set one or more virtual volumes and each of the corresponding one or more logical devices in the second storage apparatus. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302371 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COMPUTING DEVICE TO PERFORM MEMOIZATION - This invention relates to a method ( | 2011-12-08 |
20110302372 | SMT/ECO MODE BASED ON CACHE MISS RATE - A computer implemented method for managing an execution mode for a parallel processor is provided. A monitor identifies a first efficiency rate for a first contested resource of the parallel processor operating in a first operating mode. Responsive to identifying the first efficiency rate for the first contested resource, the monitor identifies whether the first efficiency rate for the contested resource of the parallel processor operating in the first operating mode exceeds a threshold. Responsive to identifying that the efficiency rate for the contested resource exceeds the threshold, an operation of the parallel processor is changed to a second operating mode. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302373 | OPERATION APPARATUS, CACHE APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus comprising first holding units each of which includes first nodes connected in series and shifts first data in each first node in a first direction, second holding units each of which includes second nodes connected in series and shifts second data in each second node in a second direction is provided. Each first node corresponds to at least one of the second nodes. The apparatus further comprises an operation unit which executes, for a node of interest which is a first node, an operation using first data in the node of interest, and second data in at least one of the second nodes to which the node of interest corresponds, and an input unit which inputs, in parallel, the first data to at least two out of the first holding units, and serially inputs the second data to at least two out of the second holding units. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302374 | LOCAL AND GLOBAL MEMORY REQUEST PREDICTOR - A method, circuit arrangement, and design structure utilize broadcast prediction data to determine whether to globally broadcast a memory request in a computing system of the type that includes a plurality of nodes, each node including a plurality of processing units. The method includes updating broadcast prediction data for a cache line associated with a first memory request within a hardware-based broadcast prediction data structure in turn associated with a first processing unit in response to the first memory request, the broadcast prediction data for the cache line including data associated with a history of ownership of the cache line. The method further comprises accessing the broadcast prediction data structure and determining whether to perform an early broadcast of a second memory request to a second node based on broadcast prediction data within the broadcast prediction data structure in response to that second memory request associated with the cache line. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302375 | Multi-Part Aggregated Variable in Structured External Storage - A mechanism is provided for multi-part aggregated variables in structured external storage. The shared external storage provides a serialized, aggregated structure update capability. The shared external storage identifies each local value for which a group value is needed by name. Each time a member writes out its value, the member specifies the name of the object, the member's current value, and the type of aggregate function to apply (e.g., minimum, maximum, etc.). The structured external storage in one atomic operation updates the member's value, recalculates the aggregate of all of the individual values, and returns the aggregate to the member. The advantage of this approach is that it requires only one write operation to the structured external storage. The update operation does not require locking, because the operation is atomic. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302376 | TWO-PORT MEMORY CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUS READ AND WRITE - Described embodiments provide a multi-port memory system that has a plurality of memory banks and an equal number of mapping memory banks, each one of the data memory banks corresponding to one of the mapping memory banks. The multi-port memory reads, from one of the mapping memory banks selected by a read logical bank number, a read physical bank number identifying which one of the data memory banks data is to be read. The memory system also calculates, from at least one physical bank number read from the mapping memory banks other than the mapping memory bank selected by the read logical bank number, a write physical bank number indicating which one of the data memory banks is to be written. The calculation uses a hash of the physical bank numbers, such as by using an Exclusive-OR. This arrangement allows for simultaneous read/write access of the memory with fixed latency. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302377 | Automatic Reallocation of Structured External Storage Structures - A mechanism for automatic reallocation of shared external storage structures is provided. The shared external storage divides the dynamically allocable storage into fixed sized blocks referred to as allocation units. To create an object of a specific type, the shared external storage uses some number of allocation units. If the object will fit in one allocation unit, then it is placed in one allocation unit. If the object is larger than one allocation unit, then the appropriate number of allocation units is obtained and chained together to contain all of the information of the required object. When an object so allocated is no longer needed, the shared external storage breaks the object down to a set of one or more fixed sized allocation units. The shared external storage then returns the allocation units to the pool of available objects. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302378 | Method for implementation of memory management - A method for implementation of memory management on a read/write memory of a data processing device, in which a multiplicity of tasks (T | 2011-12-08 |
20110302379 | MEMORY DEVICE - There is provided a memory device capable of stably storing recorded data over a long term of several decades or longer and capable of reliably reading stored data. A first circuit | 2011-12-08 |
20110302380 | METHOD OF STORING LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS AND SYSTEM THEREOF - Various embodiments for storing a logical object are provided. In one such embodiment, by way of example only, incoming data is divided corresponding to a logical data object into a plurality of independent streams, associating each data chunk of a plurality of obtained data chunks with a corresponding stream among the plurality of independent streams. At least one of the obtained data chunks and derivatives thereof is sequentially accommodated in accordance with an order the obtained chunks are received, while keeping the association with the corresponding streams. A global index is generated as a single meta-data stream accommodated in the logical data object and comprising information common to the plurality of independent streams and related to mapping between data in the logical data object and the obtained data chunks. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302381 | DATA REPLICATION FROM ONE-TO-ONE OR ONE-TO-MANY HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES - Embodiments of the system described herein can be implemented in a software application that runs on a host device or is embedded in a logic or memory device such as a gate array, EEPROM, a control, or dynamical system. The system embodiment allows a set of similar or dissimilar intelligent devices or sensors, which may be interconnected with any type of network or bus, to replicate data between themselves for the purpose of remote backup, redundancy, content distribution, or measurements. The attributes of the data, which may be changed or created on one device or passed through the device, are tracked and journaled in volatile or non-volatile storage in a first phase. This occurs in real-time as the data changes or passes through the device. In a second phase, the attributes that match patterns pre-specified in a configuration are used to decide what changes or the content to replicate to one or more devices. In a third phase, the data is replicated. In practice, the techniques described herein are independent of hardware, operating systems, and applications. The example embodiment is designed to be transparent for system redundancy and error recovery processes such as error correction, retransmission on links, and raid reconfiguration. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302382 | STORAGE SYSTEM, REMOTE COPY AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR - A copy source storage controller received write data added with a time and issued from a host computer transfers the write data with the time to a copy destination storage controller. If there are a plurality of copy destination storage controllers, a representative copy destination storage controller compares times of write data copied to the plurality of copy destination storage controllers, and writes the write data in copy destination logical volumes in the sequential order of time. The representative copy destination storage controller judges that integrity of the write data is established, if a communication procedure is established with the copy destination storage controller and if the statuses of the copy source/destination logical volumes are coincident. In remote copy which guarantees integrity of write data and traverses a plurality of storage controllers, it is possible to judge at an optional time point whether integrity of write data can be guaranteed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110302383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING DATA IN A BLOCK-LEVEL STORAGE OPERATION - The invention provides a system and method for storing a copy of data stored in an information store. In one embodiment, a data agent reads one or more blocks containing the data from the information store. The data agent maps the one or more blocks to provide a mapping of the blocks, and transmits the one or more blocks and mapping to a media agent for a storage device. The media agent stores the one or more blocks in the storage device according to the mapping. | 2011-12-08 |