Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080307019 | Manipulating Electronic Backups - Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes initiating a backup operation of data including a plurality of items, interrupting the backup operation, where interrupting occurs after a portion of the data has been completed, receiving an input to resume the backup operation, identifying a previously completed portion of the backup data, and performing a backup of a remaining uncompleted portion of the backup data. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, computer program products, and computer readable media. | 12-11-2008 |
20090106758 | File system reliability using journaling on a storage medium - Improving file system reliability in storage mediums after a data corrupting event using file system journaling is described. In one embodiment, a method, which includes scanning beyond an active transactions region within the file system journal to locate additional valid transactions for replay to bring the storage medium into a consistent state; the scanning performed until an invalid transaction is reached. | 04-23-2009 |
20090183108 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 07-16-2009 |
20090216776 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In this manner, the volume will include a previously created index database, allowing a user to begin use of the index database without having to perform an indexing operation. | 08-27-2009 |
20090254591 | Manipulating Electronic Backups - Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes initiating a backup operation of data including a plurality of items, interrupting the backup operation, where interrupting occurs after a portion of the data has been completed, receiving an input to resume the backup operation, identifying a previously completed portion of the backup data, and performing a backup of a remaining uncompleted portion of the backup data. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, computer program products, and computer readable media. | 10-08-2009 |
20100145949 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or indexes of content of files. In one exemplary method, notifications to update a metadata database or an index database are combined into a combined notification. According to other aspects, an order among logical locations on a storage device is determined in order to specify a sequence for scanning for files to be indexed. According to another aspect, a method includes determining whether to index a file based on a path name of the file relative to a plurality of predetermined path names. | 06-10-2010 |
20100306187 | Methods And Systems For Managing Data - Methods and systems for processing data, including metadata and an index database. In one exemplary method, a first folder, representing a first search query, is stored, and a second folder, representing a second search query wherein the second folder has a predetermined hierarchical relationship to the first folder, is stored, and the search queries are used to search one or both of an index database and a metadata database. In the metadata database, the type of metadata for one file type differs from the type of metadata for another file type. | 12-02-2010 |
20110196903 | File Systems for Data Processing Systems - A method for dynamically optimizing file systems based on user access patterns or other parameters. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a list of files forming a cluster is first created based on various preset criteria by an application, the list is transmitted to a file system program, and then the file system optimizes allocation of files in a storage medium based on the list. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to rearrange files stored in a storage medium so that files which tend to be used together are stored closer to each other. This can substantially reduce a typical application launch time. | 08-11-2011 |
20110238830 | TRUSTED INDEX STRUCTURE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatuses of a trusted index structure in a network environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a master device and at least one slave device to communicate with each other through a network; and a master lock status of a shared storage device to determine the master device. | 09-29-2011 |
20120030213 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING COMPOSITE DATA FILES - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or non-metadata such as content. In one exemplary method, a composite document is received and it is determined whether the composite document contains at least one subdocument and if it does, the method captures metadata and/or content from the subdocument and stores the captured metadata and/or content for use in future searches (or an immediate search). The metadata and/or content from the composite document is typically combined together with information about the hierarchy of the subdocuments in the document. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 02-02-2012 |
20120173539 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In this manner, the volume will include a previously created index database, allowing a user to begin use of the index database without having to perform an indexing operation. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179701 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 07-12-2012 |
20120191664 | COORDINATING SYNC POINTS BETWEEN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY AND A FILE SYSTEM - Systems and methods for coordinating sync points between a non-volatile memory (“NVM”) and a file system are provided. In some embodiments, a file system can issue one or more commands to control circuitry of a NVM, which can indicate whether a transaction is journaled or non-journaled. This way, the control circuitry can maintain a list of journaled transactions and corresponding LBA(s). By keeping track of journaled transactions, the control circuitry can ensure that sync points are not prematurely erased during a garbage collection process. In addition, upon detecting device failure events, the control circuitry can roll back to sync points corresponding to one or more journaled transactions. | 07-26-2012 |
20120216206 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or index databases. In one exemplary method, a notification that an existing file has been modified or that a new file has been created is received by an indexing software component, which then, in response to the notification performs an indexing operation, where the notification is either not based solely on time or user input or the notification includes an identifier that identifies the file. Other methods in data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 08-23-2012 |
20120265786 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271796 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 10-25-2012 |
20120290600 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 11-15-2012 |
20130066836 | MANIPULATING ELECTRONIC BACKUPS - Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes initiating a backup operation of data including a plurality of items, interrupting the backup operation, where interrupting occurs after a portion of the data has been completed, receiving an input to resume the backup operation, identifying a previously completed portion of the backup data, and performing a backup of a remaining uncompleted portion of the backup data. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, computer program products, and computer readable media. | 03-14-2013 |
20130212599 | EVENT NOTIFICATION MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods are provided for event notification. In one implementation, a method is provided. A determination is made as to whether a threshold associated with pending event notifications has been exceeded by an incoming event notification. A plurality of pending event notifications that can be combined are identified. Two or more event notifications are combined. | 08-15-2013 |
20130232447 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 09-05-2013 |
20140344255 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 11-20-2014 |
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20090089628 | FILE SYSTEM ERROR DETECTION AND RECOVERY FRAMEWORK - Methods, systems and machine readable media for file system error detection and protection are described. In one aspect, an embodiment of a method includes collecting first data identifying at least one error in performing at least one of reading or writing data to a storage device and determining, through an association between the first data and file identifiers, a set of files which are effected by the at least one error. The collecting may be performed automatically as a background process. In another aspect, an embodiment of a method includes detecting at least one error in file system metadata for a storage device, the detecting being performed automatically as a background process, and storing state information automatically in response to the detecting; the state information indicates that upon next mounting of the storage device, the data processing system will automatically cause the running of a file system check of the file system metadata. | 04-02-2009 |
20120185434 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for data synchronization. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a knowledge vector from a first device of the pair of devices, the knowledge vector identifying data items and latest changes to the data items known to the peer device; comparing, at a second device of the pair of devices, the received knowledge vector with a local knowledge vector for changes unknown to the first device; and sending a list of changes to the first device. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185438 | LOCAL BACKUP - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a user input to present a visual representation of a first prior state of a file system; generating the first visual representation of a first prior state of the file system at a first time in the past according to a first virtual file system corresponding to that first time; presenting the first visual representation, where the first virtual file system is a reduced representation of the file system at that first time; receiving a user input to present a second visual representation of a second prior state of the file system at a second time in the past according to a second virtual file system corresponding to that second time; and presenting the second visual representation. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185518 | FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for file system management. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request at a kernel to perform a file operation on a particular file; identifying a flag bit associated with the file; invoking user space file handler to perform particular action when the flag bit is set; determining whether notification that action has been performed by file handler is received; and allowing the file operation on the file when notification is received. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185521 | LOCAL BACKUP - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing data. In one aspect, a method includes detecting at a kernel a plurality of operations, each of a particular type from a plurality of types, to be performed on a respective data item; and generating respective entries in a delta store in response to the detected plurality of operations wherein each entry for a data item includes a marker attribute corresponding to the operation type of the plurality of types. | 07-19-2012 |
20120198287 | FILE SYSTEM ERROR DETECTION AND RECOVERY FRAMEWORK - In one aspect, an embodiment of file system error detection and protection includes collecting first data identifying at least one error in performing at least one of reading or writing data to a storage device and determining, through an association between the first data and file identifiers, a set of files which are effected by the at least one error. The collecting may be performed automatically as a background process. In another aspect, an embodiment includes detecting at least one error in file system metadata for a storage device, the detecting being performed automatically as a background process, and storing state information automatically in response to the detecting; the state information indicates that upon next mounting of the storage device, the data processing system will automatically cause the running of a file system check of the file system metadata. | 08-02-2012 |
20120310880 | Cloud Storage - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for data storage. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of identifying a running query from an application; determining one or more data items of a plurality of data items that the application has permission to view according to one or more application specific access policies; and presenting the one or more data items to the application while not presenting other data items of the plurality of data items. | 12-06-2012 |
20130031298 | INCLUDING PERFORMANCE-RELATED HINTS IN REQUESTS TO COMPOSITE MEMORY - A composite memory device that includes different types of non-volatile memory devices, which have different performance characteristics, is described. This composite memory device may receive requests, a given one of which includes a command, a logical address for at least a block of data associated with the command, and a hint associated with the command. For the given request, the composite memory device executes the command on the block of data at the logical address in at least one of the types of non-volatile memory devices. Furthermore, the composite memory device conditionally executes the hint based on one or more criteria, such as: available memory in the types of non-volatile memory devices, traffic through an interface circuit in the composite memory device, operational states of the types of non-volatile memory devices, a target performance characteristic of the composite memory device, and an environmental condition of the composite memory device. | 01-31-2013 |
20130046734 | CONSISTENT BACKUP OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - Systems and methods are provided for performing backup operations while a user is using a device. In one implementation, a method is provided. A backup operation of data including a plurality of related items is initiated. Modifications to one or more items of the plurality of related items are monitored for during the backup operation. The backup operation is completed. If a modification occurred to one or more items, a second backup operation is performed for the modified items. | 02-21-2013 |
20130311597 | LOCALLY BACKED CLOUD-BASED STORAGE - A popular service offered by many cloud computing systems is cloud-based storage. To enhance this service, the cloud-based storage can be extended through the use of a local storage device. A local storage device, such as a network enabled external hard drive, can be made available via a user's Internet connection. The local storage device can then be used to transparently store the user's content. That is, the user can still back up their devices to the cloud, but in some cases instead of the content residing in the cloud-based storage, it can reside on the local storage device without additional action required by the user. When the user requests the content, the content can be retrieved from the local storage device and returned to the requesting client device without the client device knowing where the content was stored. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311598 | CLOUD-BASED DATA ITEM SHARING AND COLLABORATION AMONG GROUPS OF USERS - A cloud computing system can be used to facilitate data item sharing and collaboration among groups of users through the creation and management of collections. A group of users, each of which is associated with at least one client device, can subscribe to a collection. A subscribed user can create a data item locally on a client device and assign the data item to a collection. In response to the assignment, each user subscribed to the collection can receive and store a copy of the data item locally on a client device. Any modifications made to a local copy of the data item can automatically be distributed to each subscribed user's client device. The modifications, including conflicting modifications, can be merged into the local copy. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311986 | CLOUD-BASED APPLICATION RESOURCE FILES - A cloud computing system can be used to transparently reduce the storage space of an application on a client device. An application can be installed with a minimal set of application resource files. The remaining application resource files can be replaced with application resource file placeholders, which can have the appearance of application resource files but are in fact empty files. When an application requests an application resource file, an application resource file retrieval process installed on the client device can detect the difference between an application resource file and an application resource file placeholder. The application resource file retrieval process can trigger a fault in response to detecting an application resource file placeholder, which causes the client device to obtain the requested application resource file from a remote storage location, such as cloud-based storage. Additionally, installed application resource files can be replaced with application resource file placeholders. | 11-21-2013 |
20140280393 | CACHED DATA VALIDITY - Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for associating unique identifiers to files of a file system to indicate that the contents of the files have changed. In some implementations, a counter value associated with a file is incremented or decremented each time the file contents are changed. The unique identifier may be stored with the file contents and file metadata in the cache. When a process requests access to the cached file contents, the process requests the unique identifier from a system component and compares the unique identifier with the unique identifier returned by the system component. If the two unique identifiers are the same, the cached file contents are deemed valid and can be used by the process. If the two unique identifiers are different, the cached file contents are deemed invalid. | 09-18-2014 |