Hitachi, Ltd. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142298 | TRANSPORT CONTROL SERVER, TRANSPORT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND TRANSPORT CONTROL METHOD - A passage channel is calculated by taking into account a plurality of requirements having different importance degrees. A channel calculation unit ( | 05-19-2016 |
20160142276 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGMENT SERVER, AND MONITORING APPARATUS - It is provided a communication system comprising: a first monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a control signal related to a connection request between a network and a terminal, and generate a reception log; a second monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a packet inputted/outputted to/from a gateway apparatus configured to transfer user data, sort the packet for each session, identify a type of an application which generates the session, and generate a session log including the type of an application; and a traffic management server configured to acquire the reception log generated by the first monitoring apparatus and the session log generated by the second monitoring apparatus, correlate the reception log with the session log by using an occurrence time of the reception log, an occurrence time of the session log, and an identifier of the terminal, and identify an application related to a session which generated the control signal. | 05-19-2016 |
20160141371 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - In order to provide a high-performance and reliable silicon carbide semiconductor device, in a silicon carbide semiconductor device including an n-type SiC epitaxial substrate, a p-type body layer, a p-type body layer potential fixing region and a nitrogen-introduced n-type first source region formed in the p-type body layer, an n-type second source region to which phosphorus which has a solid-solubility limit higher than that of nitrogen and is easily diffused is introduced is formed inside the nitrogen-introduced n-type first source region so as to be separated from both of the p-type body layer and the p-type body layer potential fixing region. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140667 | DATA LINKAGE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND DATA LINKAGE SUPPORT METHOD - A data linkage support system is disclosed that includes a storage device storing a process object table and a specification table, and an arithmetic device that displays a screen including display of a data item prescribed by specification information of the specification table and an item selection interface accepting selection of a corresponding data item in the process object table to be correlated with the data item and that correlates the corresponding data item selected in the item selection interface with the data item prescribed by the specification information to generate and store a conversion parameter of accounting data between the consolidated subsidiary company and the parent company into the storage device. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139841 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM, AND DATA-ACCESS METHOD THEREFOR - Each of a plurality of storage systems in a distributed storage system is provided with: a strong-consistency-control processor which controls data synchronization that ensures consistency of duplicated data; a weak-consistency-control processor which controls data synchronization that does not necessarily ensure consistency of the duplicated data; an access-switching processor which determines a redundancy number corresponding to the number of storage systems having duplicated data stored thereon, selects in accordance with the characteristics of the duplicated data and the position of a terminal issuing the I/O request, storage systems of a number corresponding to the redundancy number, and selectively determines, as the control for the data synchronization, one from among the strong-consistency-control processor, the weak-consistency-control processor, and consistency control unnecessary; and an I/O processor which executes, on the basis of the determined control for the data synchronization, the I/O request for the duplicated data in the selected storage systems. | 05-19-2016 |
20160137091 | RADIO BATTERY SYSTEM, AND CELL CONTROLLER AND BATTERY CONTROLLER THAT HAVE RADIO BATTERY SYSTEM - A radio battery system according to the present invention includes a battery controller and a plurality of cell controllers. The battery controller and the plurality of cell controllers communicate at a plurality of communication slots of a time division communication. The battery controller transmits data at a beginning of each of the plurality of communication slots. Each of the cell controllers measures a state of a cell at one or plurality of predetermined communication slots and transmits data at a predetermined communication slot. Each of the cell controllers is capable of switching between a normal transmission/reception mode and a sleep mode with a low power consumption. | 05-19-2016 |
20160136543 | SEPARATION DEVICE AND SEPARATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to separate a material to be separated at a low cost and constant accuracy when the material to be separated is separated from a mobile phase containing the material to be separated through the passing of the mobile phase through a stationary phase, even if the mobile phase has a large volume. A separation device characterized in that a separation column provided with a stationary phase having a volume capable of processing the entire volume of a mobile phase containing a material to be separated is provided, the separation column is replaceable, and the usage count of the stationary phase reaches a lifetime count through the processing of one batch. | 05-19-2016 |
20160134747 | QUALITY DEGRADATION ANALYSIS METHOD, QUALITY DEGRADATION ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A trial number and a failure number of a procedure extending to the plurality of devices configuring the mobile core network are acquired, a process trial number and a failure number of a received message in the single device are acquired, and the possibility of quality degradation of the devices configuring the mobile core network is calculated on the basis of the trial number and the failure numbers. | 05-12-2016 |
20160130155 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM - Provided is a water treatment system with which it is possible for injection water suitable for drilling to be prepared from seawater and produced water, without decreasing drilling efficiency, and with consideration to environmental protection. To achieve this, the system is equipped with: a fresh water flow passage for conducting fresh water from a desalination apparatus which desalinates seawater to obtain fresh water; a treated water flow passage for conducting treated water from a water/oil separation apparatus which removes the oil component contained in the produced water from an oilfield, to obtain treated water; and an injection water preparation flow passage in which the flows of treated water conducted through the treated water flow passage and the fresh water conducted through the fresh water flow passage converge, and injection water for injection into the oilfield is prepared. | 05-12-2016 |
20160127204 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - In performance estimation when the configuration of a computer system is changed, the influence, on performance, of a temporary increase in load to a computer system due to reallocation of a process request allocated to a degenerated server to another server as a result of server degeneration is taken into consideration. In an embodiment, an information processing device which evaluates the performance of the computer system estimates the performance of the computer system when operation of a server included in the computer system is stopped based on the throughput required for the server at the time of operation stop and outputs the estimated performance of the computer system. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125486 | SETTLEMENT OPERATIONS SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SETTLEMENT OPERATIONS SUPPORT METHOD - To enable improvement of efficiency in various settlement operations and cost reduction by linking business-to-business transactions with bank transactions. A computer | 05-05-2016 |
20160124841 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The information processing apparatus includes a preprocessing unit that allocates the identifier to one or more collected groups, the main storage unit including a buffer having a size of the predetermined unit installed for each group, the storage unit that stores the data written in the buffer for each predetermined unit and each group, a write processing unit that acquires the data allocated to the group for each group and writes the acquired data in the buffer, determines whether or not the data of the predetermined unit has been written in the buffer, and causes the storage unit to store the data written in the buffer when the data of the predetermined unit is determined to have been written in the buffer, and a read processing unit that reads the stored data out to the main storage unit for each group, extracts the read data, and executes the process. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124666 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system, having: a storage apparatus having: a storage volume constructed by a physical resource; a host computer having a storage volume assigned from the storage apparatus; management computers having: a first management computer configured to manage the storage apparatus; and a second management computer configured to manage the host computer, the second management computer including: first template information for identifying a change that occurs in the host configuration information; and management subject resource relationship information, the first management computer being configured to notify, before the management operation accompanying the configuration change is carried out for the storage apparatus, the second management computer of a change that occurs in the storage configuration information, the second management computer being configured to identify the change that occurs in the host configuration information based on the change that occurs in the storage configuration information notified by the first management computer. | 05-05-2016 |
20160123951 | Software and Method of Calculation of Carbon Concentration Distribution - A method of calculation of carbon concentration distribution in a member as a result of carburizing includes calculating n-dimensional carbon diffusion of the member, determining calculation region for which (n+1)-dimensional carbon diffusion of the member is calculated, determining a boundary condition of the (n+1)-dimensional calculation region, and calculating the (n+1)-dimensional carbon diffusion by applying the n-dimensional calculation result to the boundary condition of the (n+1)-dimensional calculation region. Further, software for calculating carbon concentration distribution in a member as a result of carburizing includes outputting a calculation result by calculating n-dimensional carbon diffusion of the member, and outputting a calculation result by calculating (n+1)-dimensional carbon diffusion of the member by applying the n-dimensional calculation result to a boundary condition of a calculation region for which the (n+1)-dimensional carbon diffusion of the member is calculated. | 05-05-2016 |
20160121395 | REACTIVE POWDER, BONDING MATERIAL USING REACTIVE POWDER, BONDED BODY BONDED WITH BONDING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED BODY - There is provided a reactive powder enabling a satisfactory and stable self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS) reaction. Also, there is provided a bonding material enabling reliable bonding, by using the reactive powder, while inhibiting thermal degradation of a joint member without depending on a surface shape to be bonded of the joint member. The reactive powder is a reactive powder enabling self-propagating high temperature synthesis including a first material and a second material that chemically react with each other, in which each grain constituting the reactive powder is in a state that first sub-grains made of the first material and second sub-grains made of the second material are disorderly mixed within the grain. | 05-05-2016 |
20160120516 | Ultrasound System and Method, and Ultrasound Probe - An objective of the present invention is to provide an ultrasound system which can correct a positive-negative asymmetry in pulse inversion (PI) and obtain a high-image quality ultrasound image. To carryout an asymmetry correction of a transmission assembly circuit comprising an oscillation adjustment amplifier ( | 05-05-2016 |
20160119832 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS MOBILE STATION - Once an MS's destination area has been determined, the MS receives a frequency list of BSs belonging to the destination area from a broadcasting BS before disconnecting the current network connection, and creates and stores several Search Configurations. When performing a cell search upon arrival at the destination area, the MS connects to a broadcasting BS in the destination and receives a frequency list of the BSs belonging to the destination area. The MS compares the frequency list that it maintains with the frequency list broadcasted from the BS in the destination and performs a cell search according to the result of the comparison. This leads to achieving reliable network connection and reducing time to establish connection. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119345 | STORAGE COUNT VERIFICATION SYSTEM - A storage count verification system is provided in which a client can verify the number of identical data items stored by a server without the server being notified of the results. A storage count verification system verifies whether a user device and a server device have identical data where search data requested by a user device is used to search data to be searched on a server device. The server device generates a public parameter for searching the data to be searched and transmits the generated public parameter to the user device. The user device is provided with a user generation unit for generating, on the basis of the public parameter received from the server device, a secret parameter that is for the search data and corresponds to the public parameter and a user encryption unit for encrypting the search data on the basis of the generated secret parameter. | 04-28-2016 |
20160118106 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a device which can be easily manufactured and obtain a ground state of an arbitrary Ising model. A semiconductor device includes a first memory cell and a second memory cell that interacts with the first memory cell, in which storage content of the first memory cell and the second memory cell is stochastically inverted. The storage content is stochastically inverted by dropping threshold voltages of the first memory cell and the second memory cell. The threshold voltages of the first and second memory cells are dropping by controlling substrate biases, power voltages, or trip points of the first and second memory cells. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117263 | STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STORAGE DEVICE - Key information that is currently in use is archived in a management server to prevent the key information from being lost. A storage device | 04-28-2016 |
20160117127 | COMPOUND STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD TO CONFIGURE CHANGE ASSOCIATED WITH AN OWNER RIGHT TO SET THE CONFIGURATION CHANGE - One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117122 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - The management computer includes a memory and a processor. The processor recognizes a state of a storage system that provides a first volume as a logical volume that stores a first image of an object. The processor generates a second volume as a virtual logical volume that stores a second image of the object. The processor selects, based on the state, one generation processing from a plurality of generation processing including: first generation processing of associating the second volume with the first image and differential data from the first image to provide the second volume; and second generation processing of generating the second volume as a logical volume and copying the first image to the second volume to provide the second volume. The processor transmits an instruction to execute the selected generation processing to the storage system. | 04-28-2016 |
20160111010 | INFORMATION SEARCH/PRESENTATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION SEARCH/PRESENTATION METHOD - Provided is a technology capable of appropriately presenting an answer in accordance with an attribute of a user such as an operating environment. An information search/presentation device includes: an operation information acquisition unit configured to acquire a question transmitted from a terminal; a storage unit configured to store an answer candidate to the question and user attribute information on a user of the terminal to which the answer candidate is expected to be transmitted; an answer extraction unit configured to calculate a similarity for each answer candidate associated in the storage unit with the question acquired by the operation information acquisition unit, and extract an answer from the answer candidate by using the similarity; and an output unit configured to output the extracted answer to the terminal. The answer extraction unit identifies the user attribute information on the user who has transmitted the question, and calculates the similarity between the identified user attribute information and the user attribute information associated with the answer candidate in the storage unit. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110274 | MICROCONTROLLER FAULT INJECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Temporary fault injection to existing hardware is performed using only software without changing an implementation of the hardware. A fault injection interrupt process starts on an operation of a CPU using an interrupt that is not used by software, and an internal state of hardware is updated to the same value as a result obtained when a fault has occurred during the interrupt process. A clock of the CPU during the interrupt process is accelerated so that a period of time of the interrupt process is smaller than a period of time until a fault becomes effective. | 04-21-2016 |
20160103727 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMPUTER SYSTEM COMPRISING MULTIPLE MONITORING-TARGET DEVICES - A management system manages a computer system including multiple monitoring-target devices. A storage device of the management system stores a general rule, general plan information, unresolved information, and configuration information. A control device of the management system creates multiple expanded rules based on the general rule and the configuration information, and if an event related to any of the multiple monitoring-target devices has occurred, identifies, based on the multiple expanded rules, a first conclusion event constituting a candidate for the cause of the occurred event, creates, based on the general plan information, one or more expanded plans, which are recovery plans that can be implemented if the first conclusion event is a cause, identifies an unresolved event based on the unresolved information, identifies a risk site based on the identified unresolved event, and displays data showing the first conclusion event, expanded plan, and risk site. | 04-14-2016 |
20160101785 | DRIVING CHARACTERISTICS DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, DRIVING CHARACTERISTICS DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, DRIVING CHARACTERISTICS DIAGNOSIS METHOD, INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD - A driving characteristics diagnosis device, includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information relating to the operational state of a vehicle; a dangerous driving detection processing unit that detects dangerous driving by a user of the vehicle on the basis of information acquired by the information acquisition unit; a cause estimation processing unit that estimates a cause of the dangerous driving; a driving characteristics diagnosis processing unit that performs diagnosis of driving characteristics for the user on the basis of a result of detection of the dangerous driving by the dangerous driving detection processing unit and the cause of the dangerous driving estimated by the cause estimation processing unit; and a diagnosis result output unit that outputs the result of the diagnosis of driving characteristics diagnosed by the driving characteristics diagnosis processing unit. | 04-14-2016 |
20160097731 | SEMICONDUCTOR GAS SENSOR - A semiconductor gas sensor includes a CMOS inverter which is configured by an n-channel field effect transistor having a catalytic gate and a p-channel field effect transistor having the catalytic gate. An input setting gate potential Vin(D) of the CMOS inverter is set to satisfy “Vin(D)=Vtc−ΔVgth” by using the sensor response threshold intensity ΔVgth determined by a concentration of a gas to be detected and a threshold input potential Vtc of the CMOS inverter. Therefore, only by setting the input setting gate potential Vin(D), a warning or an alarm can be issued for the concentration of the gas to be detected. In addition, a temperature compensation of the threshold voltage caused by a MOS structure is reduced regardless of the detection gas by setting a characteristic coefficient β | 04-07-2016 |
20160094348 | BIOMETRIC SIGNATURE SYSTEM, SIGNATURE VERIFICATION METHOD, REGISTRATION TERMINAL, SIGNATURE GENERATION TERMINAL, AND SIGNATURE VERIFICATION DEVICE - A biometric signature system generates a digital signature for electronic documents using biometric information as a secret key. Registration commitment information is generated by performing expansion conversion on a predetermined secret key and embedding the resulting secret key in feature data of biometric information of a user, and a set with a corresponding public key. A pair of one-time secret and public keys is generated for digital signature feature data of the biometric information of the user, and a digital signature for a message is generated using the one-time secret key. A digital signature commitment is generated and a set of the one-time public key and the digital signature is output as the biometric digital signature. The digital signature is verified using the one-time public key. A differential secret key is calculated and a correspondence of the differential secret key, the one-time public key and the public key is verified. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092819 | ALLIANCE PARTNER DETERMINATION METHOD AND ALLIANCE PARTNER DETERMINATION APPARATUS - An alliance partner determination apparatus allows a certain one of organizations, supporting each other in the occurrence of a given situation, to determine an alliance partner as a support requestee in order to cope with the situation. The apparatus includes: a situation analysis result acquisition unit acquiring information including a type and scale of the situation; and a supporter capacity calculation unit performing, based on the information including the type and scale of the situation, processing of: acquiring a response capacity available in the certain organization, and a support capacity of a partner organization already having built a support provision cooperation relationship with the certain organization, and estimating a reduction in the support capacity of the partner organization due to the situation to calculate an actually available support capacity of the partner organization. The partner organization and the available support capacity are outputted together from an output-input unit. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092804 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING OPERATIONS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides an apparatus for improving operations that improves operations management and enhances usability of an information processing system. The operations improvement apparatus improves the operations of an information processing system that includes a management-target device ( | 03-31-2016 |
20160091525 | ACCELERATION SENSOR - An acceleration sensor that achieves a simultaneous operation method of a signal detection and a servo control is provided as an alternative to a time-division processing method. The acceleration sensor is a MEMS capacitive acceleration sensor. The acceleration sensor includes signal detection capacitor pairs | 03-31-2016 |
20160091524 | INERTIAL SENSOR - A low-noise and high-sensitivity inertial sensor is provided. | 03-31-2016 |
20160087926 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND MAIL RELAY METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM IN MAIL SYSTEM - In a mail system, the present invention implements a mail gateway that prevents data from being lost when a server fails and provides high delivery capability. In a mail system, the mail delivery performance of the mail gateway is increased by the communication method and data storage method used between the mail gateway and storage systems. More specifically, the mail gateway and storage system maintain a mail, which should be maintained by the mail gateway, in the volatile memory of the mail gateway and storage system. The mail that may be lost by a failure and important data such as accounting information are written in the nonvolatile memory of the storage system. In addition, the storage system processes multiple accesses to the nonvolatile memory at a time to speedily write data into the nonvolatile memory. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087879 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE DEVICE, NODE PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - A communication system constituted by a plurality of nodes connected to each other via a network includes: a first node that receives a publish message for requesting for transmission of an object, from a publisher terminal; and a second node. Each of the nodes from the first node to the second node: has a storage unit in which first routing information is recorded; performs a first routing; and records, in the storage unit, an object ID of the publish message and second routing information. The communication system also includes a third node that receives a subscribe message for requesting for receipt of the object, from a subscriber terminal. Each of the nodes from the third node to the first node: performs a second routing; and records, in the storage unit, an object ID of the subscribe message, and third routing information. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085638 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A FAILURE - A computer system for realizing increased speed of identifying extent of a failure in a messaging system, provided with: a first computer including a message receiving part, a first log output part, and a first memory part configured to store receiving log data; a second computer including a data store management part configured to manage a data store, a first search part configured to search a message that meets a given condition from among messages stored in the data store, a second log output part, and a second memory part configured to store data store log data; a third computer including a message sending part, a third log output part, and a third memory part configured to store sending log data; and a fourth computer including a monitoring part, a log collecting part, and a second search part configured to search for lost message. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085590 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus comprises a processor configured to execute a program and a storage resource configured to store the program, wherein the processor executes: an identifying process configured to identify an another job having a scheduled execution period overlapping with a scheduled execution period of an estimation subject job among a plurality of jobs executed at a first server from the plurality of jobs; a calculating process configured to calculate an islanding execution time in which the estimation subject job is executed individually at the first server based on the scheduled execution period of the estimation subject job and the scheduled execution period of the another job identified in the identifying process and a creation process configured to create a schedule which correlates the estimation subject job with the islanding execution time calculated in the calculating process. | 03-24-2016 |
20160083821 | STEEL MATERIAL, MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a technique to reduce the residual stress of a steel material while improving the mechanical property and the corrosion resistance of the material. A steel material is provided that includes a plurality of ferrite crystal grains, and a laminar iron-rich phase formed at unidirectionally occurring grain boundaries of all grain boundaries of the ferrite crystal grains. A material processing method is provided that includes: heating a steel material that contains a plurality of ferrite crystal grains; applying a magnetic field to a heated portion while heating the steel material; applying an electric field to the heated portion in a direction that crosses the direction of the applied magnetic field while heating the steel material; and measuring a displacement occurring in the steel material under the magnetic field and the electric field. | 03-24-2016 |
20160080229 | APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE - A response time of an access to an application is monitored, and, when a trouble may occur, an alert is given to an administrator to reduce a workload on the administrator. A response time of the application is measured, a request in which the response time exceeds a reference value is extracted, and exceeding requests are aggregated in units of predetermined time widths. An interval between adjacent time bands in which the exceeding requests are present is calculated to determine a periodical tendency of occurrence of exceeding. An alert having a level depending on the tendency is output. | 03-17-2016 |
20160079634 | ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR RESTORING CAPACITY OF THE SAME - The all-solid-state battery according to the present invention includes a cathode, an anode, a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein at least one of the cathode and the anode contains a solid electrolyte having deliquescence, and the all-solid-state battery includes a water supply and removal section that supplies water to an electrode containing the solid electrolyte having deliquescence and discharges water in the electrode to the outside of the battery. | 03-17-2016 |
20160079529 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - When a thin channel semiconductor layer formed on a side wall of a stacked film in which insulating films and gate electrodes are alternately stacked together is removed on the stacked film, a contact resistance between a vertical transistor including the channel semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, and a bit line formed on the stacked film is prevented from rising. As its means, a conductive layer electrically connected to the channel semiconductor layer is disposed immediately above the stacked film. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077877 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system characterized by the provision of an optimal-load arrangement means and a load-computation execution means wherein: said optimal-load arrangement means contains a load analysis means, a load distribution means, and program information; the load-computation execution means contains a hardware processing means and a software computation means; the program information includes resource information and information pertaining to data to be processed and the content of the processing to be performed thereon; the load analysis means has the ability to perform community assignment in which, of the data to be processed, data in regions having heavy loads and communication volumes that can be reduced is assigned to a hardware community and data in other regions is assigned to a software community; and the load distribution means divides up the data to be processed such that the data assigned to the hardware community is processed by the hardware processing means and the data assigned to the software community is processed by the software computation means. | 03-17-2016 |
20160076940 | CARS MICROSCOPE - To measure homodyne interference with a CARS microscope, a supercontinuum beam is used as a light source. A supercontinuum beam is generated using a nonlinear optical fiber that has normal dispersion in which the coherence between pulses is maintained. As the phases of the interference components of detected beams are the same between pulses, it is possible to integrate the interference components and thus improve the signal-noise ratio. | 03-17-2016 |
20160072434 | HIGH FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND DEVICE USING SAME - Provided is an amplifier with a test oscillator for a high frequency characteristic monitor, which has small power loss in a normal operation state and secures good noise performance while it is possible to equip both a transmitter IC and a receiver IC with the amplifier. In a high frequency IC including an amplifier including an inductive load and a test oscillator arranged in a same chip, the test oscillator commonly uses the inductive load of the amplifier, the amplifier has a bias voltage terminal to switch an operation state into an active state/inactive state, and the oscillator has a bias voltage terminal to switch an operation state into an active state/inactive state. In a test operation mode, the amplifier is inactivated and the test oscillator is activated and in a normal operation mode, the amplifier is activated and the test oscillator is inactivated. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072152 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution, in which the electrolyte solution contains a compound represented by the following Formula (1). The negative electrode includes a graphite negative electrode active material and a Si composite material. The Si composite material is a particle which is formed of a matrix including an oxidized Si or a Si alloy, and a Si crystallite has a size of 50 nm or less which is dispersed in the matrix. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072125 | LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention contains: a laminated electrode group formed of a rectangular positive electrode; a rectangular negative electrode; and a separator. In such a laminated electrode group, the positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector foil, and a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material, the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector foil, and a negative electrode mixture layer containing a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based material, and a carbonaceous material. A mass ratio of the silicon-based material and the carbonaceous material is 20:80 to 80:20. The silicon-based material is a Si alloy or SiO | 03-10-2016 |
20160065678 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, AND SESSION INFORMATION MIGRATION METHOD - A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065660 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER, AND LOAD BALANCING METHOD - It is provided a computer system, comprising a plurality of computers configured to execute processing in response to requests received from a plurality of external systems. The plurality of computers each share an acceptance weight statistic value calculated by each of the plurality of computers with another computer within the same network segment. The processor of each of the plurality of computers is configured to: receive a broadcast transmitted from one of the plurality of external systems to the same network segment; determine whether to respond to the received broadcast by referring to the shared acceptance weight statistic value; and send a response to the one of the plurality of external systems that has transmitted the broadcast in order to allow the one of the plurality of external systems to transmit a processing request in a case where it is determined to respond to the received broadcast. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065210 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to realize an example of configuration that approximately represents a state of quantum spin in a semiconductor device where components as a basic configuration unit are arrayed so as to search a ground state of Ising model. There is disclosed a semiconductor device provided with plural units each of which is equipped with a first memory cell that stores a value which represents one spin of the Ising model by three or more states, a second memory cell that stores an interaction coefficient showing interaction from another spin which exerts interaction on the one spin and a logical circuit that determines the next state of the one spin on the basis of a function having a value which represents a state of the other spin and the interaction coefficient as a constant or a variable. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064779 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY SYSTEM - It is provided a computer system, comprising a plurality of computers configured to execute processing in response to requests received from a plurality of external systems. The plurality of computers share an acceptance weight statistic value calculated by each of the plurality of computers with another computer within the same network segment. The processor of each of the plurality of computers is configured to: receive a broadcast transmitted from one of the plurality of external systems to the same network segment; determine whether to respond to the received broadcast by referring to the shared acceptance weight statistic value; and send a response to the one of the plurality of external systems that has transmitted the broadcast in order to allow the one of the plurality of external systems to transmit a processing request in a case where it is determined to respond to the received broadcast. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064099 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ITS QUALITY MANAGEMENT METHOD - A semiconductor device capable of easily and properly detecting a defective element unit(s) and a quality management method for the semiconductor device are suggested. A semiconducting device simulating interactions between nodes in an interaction model is equipped with a quality management unit for managing the quality of each element unit provided corresponding to each node, wherein the quality management unit executes a specified quality test of each element unit, compares test results of the quality test with pre-given results to be obtained from the quality test, and detects a defective memory cell(s) and a defective element unit(s) based on the comparison results. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064080 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - In a semiconductor device which calculates an interaction model, a technique capable of executing interaction calculation in non-synchronization with a clock is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of units each of which includes: a first memory cell for storing a value indicating a state of one node of an interaction model; a second memory cell for storing an interaction coefficient indicating an interaction from a node connected to the one node; and an interaction calculation circuit for determining a value indicating a next state of the one node based on a current determined by a value indicating a state of the connected node and the interaction coefficient. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064053 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A semiconductor device has a plurality of units, each of which includes a first memory cell that stores a value indicating a state of one node of an interaction model, a second memory cell that stores an interaction coefficient indicating an interaction from a node connected to the one node, and a third memory cell that stores a bias coefficient of the one node. Furthermore, the semiconductor device has a computing circuit that determines a value indicating a next state of the one node based on a value indicating a state of the connected node, the interaction coefficient and the bias coefficient. Also, each of the second memory cell and the third memory cell in the plurality of units includes multi-valued memory cells. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064050 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a spin array in which a plurality of memory cells are disposed in a matrix configuration, a group of a predetermined number of memory cells is collected in units of spin units, and a plurality of the spin units are disposed with an adjacency; a word line provided in correspondence with rows of the memory cells; a bit line pair provided in correspondence with columns of the memory cells; a multiword decoder configured to multiplex a word address according to an input of a multiplicity specify signal to a word line and simultaneously activate a plurality of word lines; and a bit line driver configured to subject a plurality of memory cells, of the memory cells connected to bit line pairs and arrayed in a column direction, activated by the plurality of the word lines to a write operation or a read operation. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063725 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - A semiconductor device in which components each serving as a basic constitutional unit are arranged in order to find a solution of an interaction model. The semiconductor device includes multiple units each of which has: a first memory cell for scoring a value indicating a state of one node of the interaction model; a second memory cell for storing an interaction coefficient indicating an interaction from another node connected to the one node; a third memory cell for storing a flag for fixing a value of the first memory cell; a first arithmetic circuit that decides a next state of the one node based on a value indicating a state of the other node and the interaction coefficient; and a second arithmetic circuit that decides whether or not to record a value indicating the next state in the first memory cell according to a value of the flag. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063391 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A highly-convenient information processing system capable of obtaining a solution of a problem under conditions desired by a user and a management apparatus capable of enhancing the convenience of the information processing system are suggested. An information processing system includes: a host unit equipped with one or more semiconductor chips that execute a ground-state search of an Ising model; and an operation unit that provides a user interface for a user to designate a problem; and a management unit that converts the problem designated by the user by using the user interface into the Ising model and controls the host unit to have the semiconductor chip perform the ground-state search of the converted Ising model; wherein the user can designate a condition for solving the problem by using the user interface; wherein the management unit generates an operating condition of the semiconductor chip according to the condition designated by the user and reports the generated operating condition and the Ising model of the problem designated by the user to the host unit; and wherein the host unit controls the semiconductor chip in accordance with the operating condition reported from the management unit. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063148 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device that can simulate interactions between nodes of a large-scale interaction model and can be manufactured easily at inexpensive cost is suggested. The semiconductor device is provided with a plurality of semiconductor chips, each of which simulates interactions between nodes of an interaction model, and an inter-chip wire, wherein the plurality of semiconductor chips are used to simulate interactions between nodes of a single interaction model; each semiconductor chip includes: a plurality of element units, each of which retains values indicating the state of corresponding nodes and interaction coefficients and determines values indicating the next state of the corresponding nodes based on the retained values indicating the state of the nodes and each of the interaction coefficients and values of each of other nodes; and a connection unit that sends and receives some of the values indicating the state of the nodes, which are retained by a necessary element unit , via inter-chip wire to and from another semiconductor chip or sends and receives the values indicating state of the nodes, which are retained by the necessary element unit to and from the other semiconductor chip while sharing the inter-chip wire by means of time sharing. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062951 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a plurality of spin units individually including a memory cell configured to store values of spins in an Ising model, a memory cell configured to store an interaction coefficient from an adjacent spin that exerts an interaction on the spin, a memory cell configured to store an external magnetic field coefficient of the spin, and an interaction circuit configured to determine a subsequent state of the spin. The spin units individually include a random number generator configured to supply the random number to the plurality of the spin units and generate two-valued simulated coefficients of two values or simulated coefficients of three values in performing an interaction to determine a subsequent state of a spin of the spin units from a value of a spin from an adjacent spin unit, an interaction coefficient, and an external magnetic field coefficient. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062844 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR BACKING UP DATA - It is provided a computer system, comprising a server and first and second storage systems. The first storage system stores deduplicated data sharing at least a part of data with other data, shared data shared by a plurality of pieces of the deduplicated data, and first type data representing a type of the stored data including the deduplicated data and the shared data. The deduplicated data is associated with the shared data by a pointer to the shared data, and includes differential data indicating a difference from the shared data. The server creates second type data representing a type of the data stored in the second storage system from the first type data. The second storage system stores the shared data associated with the deduplicate data at a reading position before a position at which the deduplicated data is read in sequential reading and stores the second type data. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062704 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - In a semiconductor device in which components to be a basic configuration unit are arranged in an array shape for calculating an interaction model, a technique capable of changing a topology between the components is provided. A semiconductor device includes a plurality of units each of which includes a first memory cell for storing a value indicating a state of one node of an interaction model, a second memory cell for storing an interaction coefficient indicating an interaction from a node connected to the one node, and a calculation circuit for determining a value indicating a next state of the one node based on a value indicating a state of the connected node and on the interaction coefficient. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a plurality of switches for connecting or disconnecting the plurality of units to/from each other. | 03-03-2016 |
20160057659 | TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM - It is provided a traffic management system for managing traffic of a wireless network system, the wireless network system including at least one call control apparatus for processing a connection request from a subscriber terminal, the traffic management system being configured to predict a connection request processing completion time, which is a time required for the at least one call control apparatus to finish processing a connection request, based on a change in a slope of the connection request processing completion time in relation to a quantity of connection requests that are transferred from the subscriber terminals to the at least one call control apparatus. | 02-25-2016 |
20160056510 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY SYSTEM, STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING ASSEMBLED BATTERY SYSTEM - An assembled battery system includes: a control unit having a cell monitoring unit for obtaining battery information by monitoring the battery state of each secondary battery belonging to a storage battery module and a wireless communication unit for, inside a metal chassis housing the storage battery module, wirelessly transmitting the battery information; and a management device for, inside the metal chassis, wirelessly communicating with and managing each of the storage battery modules. The management device transmits to each of the storage battery modules a measurement instruction including information specifying the next measurement timing at predetermined intervals and controls the cell monitoring unit to measure, according to the measurement instruction, the battery states of the storage batteries concurrently among a storage battery modules. | 02-25-2016 |
20160056436 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAID NEGATIVE ELECTRODE AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium ion secondary battery includes a negative electrode primarily containing carbon as an active material, the negative electrode including a negative electrode active material and a coating material formed on the surface of the negative electrode active material, and the coating material is composed of a compound including boron and an alkyl group, and adsorbed on the surface of the negative electrode active material surface. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055876 | OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCTION METHOD - An optical information recording/reproduction device is capable of appropriately correcting the angle of a reference beam during data reproduction even when a wavelength deviation or an angle deviation in multiplexing and vertical directions of the reference beam occurs in a holographic memory recording medium. The optical information reproduction device has a laser light source that generates a reference beam; an image-capturing unit that detects a diffraction ray to be reproduced from the optical information recoding medium; and an optical detection unit that has at least two light-receiving surfaces and is used for detecting a diffraction ray reproduced by irradiating the reference beam on the optical information recording medium. The device also has a light-shielding unit that shields part of the diffraction ray detected by the optical detection unit; and an error signal calculation unit that generates an error signal from a detection signal outputted by the optical detection unit. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055044 | FAULT ANALYSIS METHOD, FAULT ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 02-25-2016 |
20160054946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOGICAL VOLUMES - A management system manages a plurality of logical volumes in a storage system coupled to a host system. The plurality of logical volumes includes a first logical volume provided to the host system and a second logical volume. The management system manages the second logical volume as a duplicate of the first logical volume and a first state volume which is provided to the host system. The management system changes the second logical volume to a second state volume associated with the first logical volume, which is not a logical volume provided to the host system and which is on standby for a future use by the host system. The management system manages a data difference between data stored in the second logical volume and data stored in the first logical volume associated with the second logical volume if data is newly stored in the first logical volume. | 02-25-2016 |
20160049268 | Switchgear - Magnetic force of a permanent magnet can be converted into arc driving force efficiently, and the permanent magnet can be insulated from arc heat so as to suppress magnetic deterioration, whereby breaking performance can be secured over a long period of time. In order to solve the above-described problems, the switchgear of the present invention includes: a fixed side contactor that is provided to a fixed side conductor; a moving contact that can be driven reciprocally with respect to the fixed side contactor, the moving contact being supported by a movable side conductor via a movable side contactor, the moving contact performing opening and closing operation by contacting to and separating from the fixed side contactor; and a permanent magnet generating a magnetic field on an arc to extinguish the arc through the opening operation, the arc being generated between the fixed side contactor and the moving contact, and the permanent magnet is provided on a tip portion of the fixed side conductor to be positioned closer to the movable side contactor side than the fixed side contactor, and the permanent magnet is covered with an insulating member. | 02-18-2016 |
20160043720 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit device that has a high-voltage analog switch circuit and is operable at a low power-supply voltage. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041992 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A data management apparatus includes a storage unit which stores a first database for retaining structured data in which a plurality of data features are structured based on attributes and attribute values, and a second database for retaining unstructured data in file units, and a control unit which combines the structured data and the unstructured data and manages the combination as virtual structured data which is accessed during an execution of a search query to the second database, uses attribute values of virtual attributes of the virtual structured data as values that were extracted from files of the second database based on predetermined information extraction rules, and updates the attribute values of the virtual attributes of the virtual structured data when the files of the second database including the unstructured data are updated. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041776 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CACHE CONTROL METHOD - A first storage apparatus, on the basis of management information representing data existing in a virtual cache area, when a first data conforming to a read request exists in the virtual cache area, determines whether the first data is stored in a first cache area of the first storage apparatus. The first storage apparatus, when the first data is not stored in the first cache area, acquires the first data from a second cache area of a second storage apparatus, and transmits the first data to a host computer. The first storage apparatus, when the first data is associated with the first cache area on the basis of a degree of importance, notifies the second storage apparatus to that effect, and change an apparatus in charge of a cache of the first data of the management information from the second storage apparatus to the first storage apparatus. The first storage apparatus, when the first data is associated with the second cache area, notifies the second storage apparatus to that effect, and deletes the first data. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041567 | Gas Turbine Generation System - A gas turbine generation system has a three-phase generator whose rotor is mechanically coupled to a gas turbine. The system comprises a three-phase voltage balancing circuit having elements independently operable for each phase to disperse or cancel unbalanced components of three-phase current, during unbalanced fault in a power grid connected to the generator, result in balancing of the three-phase voltage; and the voltage balancing constitutes a mechanism of avoiding the occurrence of the rotor vibration from mechanical resonance points on turbine blades. | 02-11-2016 |
20160036912 | FILE SERVER, FILE SERVER CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a storage system that includes a first node and a second node. The first node and the second node are connected to a client and a storage device. The first node includes a first memory for cache data, receives data from the client, stores the data into the first memory, and controls the storing the content of the data into the storage device from the first memory in accordance with an instruction from the second node. The second node includes a second memory for the same cache data as the first memory. If the content of data in the storage device or the content of data in the second memory before the storing of the data is the same as the content of the data in the second memory, the second node instructs the first node not to store the content of the data into the storage device. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036418 | TRANSMISSION DRIVE CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - Provided is a transmission drive circuit which can reduce distortions of a transmission signal and transmission noise, and is isolable from a signal line. A transmission drive circuit | 02-04-2016 |
20160035535 | SAMPLE HOLDER, CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS, AND OBSERVATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a sample holder that can carry out a series of observations in which a rotational series image at arbitrary angles, namely, from −180° to +180° around the x-axis of an observation region and a rotational series image at arbitrary angles, namely, from −180° to +180° around the y-axis are obtained without taking a sample out of a sample chamber. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034721 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - The present invention curbs encryption key information used in a virtual logical volume and improves security. A storage management function | 02-04-2016 |
20160034719 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - The storage system according to the present invention has a function to encrypt write data from the host and store the same in a storage media. Further, validation information of write data is added to the write data during storage thereof, and the data having the validation information added thereto is encrypted and stored in the storage media. When starting the storage system or restoring the encryption key information, the encrypted data stored in the storage media is read from the disk and decrypted prior to receiving a data access request from the host, and validation of data is performed using the validation information added to the decrypted data, so as to determine whether the encryption key stored in a storage controller is valid or not. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034476 | FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A file management method according to the present invention is based upon a file management method of making a file from a client to a storage device redundant by a certain redundant number and storing the file in the storage device, and the file management method according to the present invention includes a first step of accepting an additional file from the client to the storage device, a second step of comparing capacity of the additional file and unused physical capacity of the storage device and a third step of changing the redundant number of the already stored file, increasing the unused physical capacity and storing the additional file in the storage device when the capacity of the additional file is larger than the unused physical capacity. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034358 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CACHE OF STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus is connected to a host apparatus and a secondary storage apparatus and includes a memory, a storage device, and a processor. The memory includes a save memory area and a cache memory area that temporarily stores data received from the host apparatus. The storage device stores data that is received from the host apparatus. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034289 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD OF THE SAME - A computer system including a peripheral equipment and a blade server provided with a plurality of blades, which are physical machines, and a plurality of virtual machines available on the blades, a same OS identifier is allocated, before and after the migration, to an OS that migrates along with migration of the virtual machine, migrates among the plurality of virtual machines or migrates between the virtual machine and the blade, and log of the blades and/or the virtual machines, and log of the peripheral equipment are stored in association with the OS identifier. | 02-04-2016 |
20160026984 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus with which billing amounts in the case of write count-dependent billing can be predicted, comprises a physical storage device which provides logical volumes of different types, and a controller which executes I/O control by classifying each of the logical volumes of different types into tiers of different response performances. In a case where a write request is issued to any virtual page which configures the virtual volume, the controller assigns any real page which configures a logical volume to the virtual page, writes data to the real page, and performs a write count. The controller calculates a billing amount per fixed time interval on the basis of the performed write count, calculates tier ranges so that the billing amount per fixed time interval does not exceed the billing upper limit value, and relocates the real page on the basis of the calculated tier range. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026537 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system | 01-28-2016 |
20160026409 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING THE SAME - The present invention provides a storage system capable of performing data migration without stopping the IO access from a host computer, without having to copy data in an external connection storage subsystem to a migration destination storage subsystem. A configuration information of a migration source volume in a migration source storage subsystem is migrated to the migration destination storage subsystem, and during migration, cache memories of the respective subsystems are used to duplicate and store write data from the host computer, and the migration destination storage subsystem reflects the write data to the external connection storage subsystem. Reading of data is also performed by the migration destination storage subsystem. | 01-28-2016 |
20160021005 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus are coupled to each other via predetermined communication paths. The control apparatus is configured to: acquire an available bandwidth in each of the predetermined communication paths; define such sub-paths as to start from the first communication apparatus to reach the second communication apparatus and that one of the sub-paths pass through one of the communication paths; determine sub-path bandwidths for the sub-paths in accordance with the acquired available bandwidths; and transmit information for identifying each of the sub-paths and information indicating the sub-path bandwidths to the first communication apparatus by including the information in a setting instruction to set the sub-paths for the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019318 | PROBLEM STRUCTURE EXTRACTION SUPPORT SYSTEM, PROBLEM STRUCTURE EXTRACTION SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to enable extraction of more structures having a possibility including problems. A problem structure extraction support system extracts multiple loop structures from an evaluation model, replaces a common portion which includes nodes and links in series common to the multiple loop structures by one of the nodes included in the common portion, and determines the reference models corresponding to the multiple loop structures. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019266 | QUERY GENERATING METHOD AND QUERY GENERATING DEVICE - Provided is a query generating method for generating a query which processes an inputted data stream with a computer provided with a processor and memory, said method comprising: a first step of the computer separating the inputted data stream into a required column and an optional column, and loading a template which defines a process with respect to the required column; and a second step of the computer separating the inputted data stream into a required column and an optional column, processing the required columns with the template, and generating a query which outputs the result of the processing of the template and the optional column as one instance of data. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019159 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA STORING METHOD - Provided is a storage system including: a storage medium including a plurality of physical storage areas having an upper limit number of rewrites, and a medium controller that controls I/O (input/output) of data to/from the plurality of physical storage areas; and a storage controller connected to the storage medium, wherein when any of the physical storage areas is not allocated to a write destination logical storage area among a plurality of logical storage areas, the medium controller allocates a vacant physical storage area among the plurality of physical storage areas to the write destination logical storage area and writes write target data to the allocated vacant physical storage area, and the plurality of logical storage areas includes an available logical area group determined based on a relationship between an available capacity of a logical storage capacity and a rewrite frequency of the plurality of physical storage areas. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019145 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CACHE CONTROL METHOD - A receiving controller which receives a read request out of first and second storage controllers transfers the read request to an associated controller which is associated with a read source storage area out of the first and second storage controllers when the receiving controller is not the associated controller. It is however the receiving controller that reads the read-target data from a read source storage device, writes the read-target data to a cache memory of the receiving controller, and transmits the read-target data written in the cache memory of the receiving controller to a host apparatus. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019097 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - The purpose of the invention is to simplify the work of setting migration WWNs used in live migration of LPARs. Hypervisor management software of a management computer acquires and stores, in a storage unit, WWNs set for logical FC-HBAs of hypervisors of computers and host information including a WWN of a source capable of accessing a logical unit (LU) of a storage device. The hypervisor management software uses such information as a basis to output, on a display screen, information indicating whether or not a migration WWN, which is a WWN value of a logical FC-HBA used at migration of a virtual computer of the computer, is in a state of being able to be used to access the LU. | 01-21-2016 |
20160017059 | ADSORBENT - An adsorbent of the present invention includes a support; and a protein having an adsorption site for adsorbing a target substance, in which the protein includes a reversible binding site and a covalent binding site, the support includes an orientation-controlling site forming a reversible bond with the reversible binding site, and an immobilization site forming a covalent bond with the covalent binding site, the covalent binding site includes a nucleophilic functional group, and the immobilization site includes a functional group capable of reacting with the nucleophilic functional group by a nucleophilic substitution or a nucleophilic addition. Thus, it is possible to provide an adsorbent in which the utilization efficiency of the adsorption site of the protein is improved. As a result, the protein amount can be reduced, and the step for storing a culture solution can be simplified due to the faster purification step. | 01-21-2016 |
20160016141 | MICROREACTOR FOR PHOTOREACTIONS - A microreactor for photoreactions includes a housing upper part, a lid plate made of a material that allows transmission of light, a flow path plate made of a material that suppresses light reflection and has a high thermal conductivity, and a housing lower part. Light is applied through a window of the housing upper part and the lid plate to a flow path of the flow path plate. The lid plate made of the material that allows transmission of light and the flow path plate made of the material that suppresses light reflection and has a high thermal conductivity are welded each other to form an integrated body. | 01-21-2016 |
20160006829 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A second storage unit stores a first piece of data and second pieces of data. Each of first storage units holds configuration information indicating association between the first piece of data and the second pieces of data associated by first computers. Each of the first computers receives a second piece of data and register information of the received second piece of data in the configuration information, instructs a second computer to store the received second piece of data in association with the first piece of data, and identifies a second piece of data to be acquired from the second computer based on the configuration information in acquiring the second piece of data. The second computer, in accordance with instructions from the first computers, stores the second pieces of data in the second storage unit in association with the first piece of data. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006635 | MONITORING METHOD AND MONITORING SYSTEM - A monitoring method and system avoid the occurrence of waiting due to deadlock, and thereby avoid the occurrence of job delays. An information system includes a job scheduling device which receives a request, and an analyzing device which retains first information related to the exclusive relation between jobs and a load tendency of each of the jobs. The job scheduling device makes an inquiry to the analyzing device with respect to which business device the request should be transferred. The analyzing device notifies the job scheduling device of the business device to which the request should be transferred and, as needed, a standby time, and the job scheduling device transfers the request to the designated business device after standing by for the designated standby time, in case the standby time is designated, based on the notice from the analyzing device. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006633 | MONITORING ITEM SELECTION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 01-07-2016 |
20160006630 | COMPUTER SYSTEM EVALUATION METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - When one of nodes performs a prescribed task, a management computer: obtains a replaceable part value group containing configuration information for components of a group that includes the node, and stores the obtained replaceable part value group in history information; receives at least one node to be evaluated; obtains a replaceable part value group containing configuration information for respective components of a group that includes said node to be evaluated, and stores the obtained replaceable part value group in history comparison target information; selects a combination of the history comparison target information and the history information having matching elements; calculates an evaluation value for the selected combination of the history comparison target information and the history information; and outputs a combination of an evaluation value and a node identifier indicating the history comparison target information and the history information having the matching elements. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006368 | Power Converter - A power converter includes semiconductor switching elements conducting when the semiconductor switching elements fail; and open/close units that are disposed between parts having a plurality of different voltage levels and connection portions where the semiconductor switching units, which are to be connected to the parts having the different voltage levels, are connected to each other, and that open or close paths between the parts having the different voltage levels and the connection. When an excess current flows through any one of the open/close units, the one of the open/close unit opens the current path between the part having the corresponding voltage level and the connection portion. Then the power converter does not output the voltage to which the open/close unit is connected, and thereby the number of output voltage levels is reduced. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005671 | RESIN-SEALED ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention is intended to increase the moisture resistance of a resin-sealed electronic control device. The resin-sealed electronic control device includes: a semiconductor chip; a chip capacitor; a chip resistor; a bonding member; a substrate; a case; a heat radiating plate; a glass coating; and a first sealing material. The glass coating directly covers the electronic circuit formed by the element group including: the semiconductor chip; the chip capacitor; and the chip resistor, the bonding member and the substrate, and is sealed by the first sealing material. By being water impermeable, the glass coating prevents water absorption in the vicinity of the element group, and can prevent an increase in the leak current of the semiconductor chip due to water absorption, and an insulation performance drop such as lowered insulation resistance caused by migration within the element group. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005171 | Image Analysis Device, Image Analysis System, and Image Analysis Method - An image analysis device according to the present invention includes a storage unit storing an image and information of a detected object included in the image, an input unit receiving a target image serving as a target in which an object is detected, a similar image search unit searching for a similar image having a feature quantity similar to a feature quantity extracted from the target image and the information of the object included in the similar image from the storage unit, a parameter deciding unit deciding a parameter used in a detection process performed on the target image based on the information of the object included in the similar image, a detecting unit detecting an object from the target image according to the decided parameter, a registering unit accumulating the target image in the storage unit, and a data output unit outputting the information of the detected object. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005167 | VOLUME DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A controller has a function that: poygonizes and converts three-dimensional volume data, which is generated by a modality, into polygon data; divides this polygon data into a plurality of clusters; calculates an L2 norm vector of spherical harmonics as a feature vector with respect to each of the clusters based on the polygon data constituting each cluster; identifies whether each cluster is a target or not, based on each calculated feature vector and learning data; and displays an image of a cluster identified as the target at least on a screen. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005058 | SENSITIVITY EVALUATION SYSTEM - Since questionnaires are used according to the sensitivity marketing method in the related art, it is not possible to obtain answers from many people at the same time, and also, analysis of the answers requires a long time, which does not match life cycles of product development. Furthermore, there is a problem that credibility of the aggregate result is low without the use of biomarkers. A sensitivity evaluation system for evaluating distributed video information has a client system that transmits an evaluation request related to the video information to an information analysis system and transmits the video information, which is to be viewed by an examinee at a terminal. The terminal transmits a biosignal, which is measured by an apparatus that the examinee wears to the information analysis system which analyzes the biosignal, creates a report related to the video information, and transmits the created report to the client system. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005052 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - This invention provides an information processing technique making it easy to determine merchandise placement in a store. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004968 | CORRELATION RULE ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND CORRELATION RULE ANALYSIS METHOD - A correlation rule analysis apparatus extracts data dependence relation and restriction conditions of database columns of a database from data stored in the database. The correction rule analysis apparatus includes a correlation rule extraction part which extracts information of simultaneous appearance relation of data among plural columns as correlation rules from inputted database table data, a correlation rule summarization part which summarizes or puts the extracted correlation rules together on the basis of specific community and a summarization result appropriateness judgment part which calculates usefulness indexes as the data dependence relation and the restriction conditions from appearance frequency and combination in the summarized correlation rules. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004881 | Data Processing Apparatus, Data Processing System, and Data Processing Method - A data processing apparatus includes a first communication interface configured to acquire the history data; a memory configured to store the acquired history data; a data processing module configured to generate first data including the first identifier and the time information by using the acquired history data, and store the generated first data into the memory; an ID conversion processing module configured to generate second data by converting the first identifier into a second identifier, which is effective for the first data including the time information indicating a time that falls within a first period, and store the generated second data into the memory; and a maintenance module configured to delete the history data and the first data from the memory. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004757 | DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data management method employing the results of an analysis of data stored in a storage unit of a computer provided with a processor and a storage unit, wherein the computer generates an analysis data set by selecting data stored in the storage unit, subjects the analysis data set to prescribed data mining, extracts a model from the analysis data set, converts the model into a relational table, and associates the relational table with a dimension table and a history table that have been stored in advance in the storage unit. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004745 | DATA SEARCH METHOD AND DATA SEARCH SYSTEM - A data search method and system are provided in which data including a suitable reply to a query can be retrieved through a concept search. A data search method for searching for a text group that is similar to an inquiry text from data storing a plurality or text groups into which a plurality of texts are grouped includes: obtaining first information that is likely to be a search object and an appearance frequency of the first information with respect to each of the text groups and classifying the first information as second information that is a search object if the appearance frequency of the first information is less than or equal to a predetermined frequency; extracting third information included in the inquiry text; searching for the third information from the second information with respect to each of the text groups; and outputting the identifiers of a predetermined number of text groups with a higher number of hits on the third information included in the inquiry text. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004727 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A database management system receives a new data table input to a database; and executes unique constraint determination processing of determining whether each comparison-subject value as each value registered in a target column in the new data table is different from each comparison reference value as each value registered in a target column in a stored data table in the database, and stores the new data table in a second database area different from a first database area storing the stored data table in the database when a determination result obtained in the unique constraint determination processing is true. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004708 | FILE STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A file storage stores a client file (a file from a client) in a first file system (FS), stores metadata of the client file in a backup file in a second FS, and backs up the backup file to the first FS at a backup process start time. The file storage creates consistency file management information specifying a backup file having been backed up and a client file at that time point, acquires, when a file specified by the consistency file management information is transmitted to an archive storage apparatus, data identification information for identifying the transmitted file in the archive storage apparatus, and associates the data identification information with the transmitted file. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004584 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE ACTUAL MEMORY AREA FROM STORAGE POOL TO VIRTUAL VOLUME - An exemplary event analysis method generates a topology, indicating a correlation between management objects corresponding to a correlation between events defined in selected event propagation model, from configuration management information. It generates, from the selected event propagation model and the topology, a causality indicating a correlation between the causal event identifying an identifier of the management object and the type of the event, and the derivative event sequentially taking place from the causal event. It, in generating the causality, identifies the type of the management object where the derivative event takes place and the type of the event, without identifying the identifier of the management object where the derivative event takes place, when the topology for identifying the identifier of the derivative event is ungeneratable. It performs an event analysis by comparing the generated causality and the event actually taking place at the management target apparatuses. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004582 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A management system manages a plurality of management target devices. A storage device stores one or more rules, plan information, and plan history information. A control device specifies a first cause event that is a candidate of a cause of the event that has occurred in any one of the management target devices based on the one or more rules, specifies a plurality of first plans that can be executed in the case in which the first cause event is a cause based on the plan information, calculates an index value indicating a possibility of succeeding in a failure recovery in the case in which the plan is executed for each of the plurality of first plans based on the plan history information, and displays data indicating any one or more plans of the plurality of first plans according to a display mode decided based on the index value. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004552 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - The performance of a virtual machine is maintained, by migrating an appropriate target virtual machine for migration to an appropriate destination resource, in response to a load on the virtual machine. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004551 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD - The integrated resource management unit | 01-07-2016 |
20160004525 | METHOD OF DETERMINING WHETHER INPUT OPERATION DIALOGUE IS DISPLAYABLE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method of determining whether a dialogue is displayable includes recording a previous software use state in a terminal which has been responded to an input operation to the terminal, comparing the recorded previous software use state with a current software use state in the terminal, and displaying an input operation dialogue according to a result of the comparison. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004513 | DESIGN ASSISTING SYSTEM, DESIGN ASSISTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - To design parameters for building a system quickly, it is provided a design assisting system, comprising: a processor configured to execute a program; and a memory configured to store the program to be executed by the processor. The memory is configured to store a plurality of parameter sets for defining usage of resources of a computer system on which a business operation is run. The processor is configured to: calculate a resource value score of each resource for each of the plurality of parameter sets, based on information for defining items to be taken into account in system designing; sum up the calculated resource value scores for each of the plurality of parameter sets separately; and determine a priority level of each of the plurality of parameter sets, based on the resource value scores summed up for each of the plurality of parameter sets separately. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004460 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a computer system capable of ensuring a storage capacity to a virtual volume within a pool. According to the present invention, a pool capacity of a block storage is reserved in a specific address range of the virtual volume, and a reserved capacity is allocated during writing of data to a specific address range. Further, when the reserved capacity is not allocated for a given period of time, reservation is freed. | 01-07-2016 |
20160001798 | Railroad Vehicle - The present invention provides a railroad vehicle which makes it possible: not only to separate a high-voltage cable involving a point of problem and sound high-voltage cables from each other without an operator climbing onto the roof of a vehicle; but also to automatically conduct the separating work without necessity for any special work. The railroad vehicle of the present invention is formed by dispersedly mounting a plurality of vehicles with main power devices that are supplied with power from a power supply line through a pantograph and constitute power supply units. The railroad vehicle includes: a plurality of vehicle units in which respective vehicles are coupled; a cable placed astride the vehicles to connect the power supply unit of each vehicle unit; and a disconnector that is installed at some midpoint in the cable and electrically separates the vehicle units from one another. | 01-07-2016 |
20150381734 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - The present invention can shorten a response time required by a client computer to receive configuration information after transmitting a request for the configuration information to a storage system. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381507 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS - A network control apparatus is configured to acquire packets sent from a first network node to a second network node, manage packet types of the packets, monitor condition of a network between the first network node and the second network node based on the packets, and delay a specific packet in reaching the second network node based on an order of procedures determined based on packet types in the second network node when the condition of the network is assessed as worse than normal. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381498 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND ITS LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A network system includes a plurality of first computers, which transmit and receive data via a network and are equipped with a plurality of active and standby communication paths. A second computer is connected with the first computers via the network. Each first computer acquires path information concerning active and standby communication paths in the network and traffic of the active communication path and transmits them to the second computer. The second computer: predicts a load on each network node when the communication path is to be switched to each standby communication path; selects a first computer, whose communication path should be switched, and a standby communication path, which is a switching target, based on the prediction result; and requests the first computer to switch the communication path to the standby communication path. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381242 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, ELEVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM, AND SUBSTATION FACILITY MONITORING SYSTEM - The radio communication system includes a radio transmitter which performs up-sampling on an information signal, and performs modulation on a carrier wave using the sampled information signal to transmit the modulated carrier wave, and a radio receiver which receives transmission waves transmitted from the radio transmitter, and demodulates the information signal. The radio transmitter includes a transmission processing unit that generates the transmission waves, and a transmission unit that rotates polarized waves of the transmission waves with a predetermined rotation frequency, and wirelessly transmits the transmission waves, and the transmission processing unit copies the sampled information signal, multiplies the copied information signals by predetermined weighting factors, and generates the transmission waves by assigning the information signals on a time axis such that the copied information signals are respectively transmitted with different polarization angles. | 12-31-2015 |
20150380992 | Axial Gap-Type Electric Rotating Machine - The grounding of a stator core with an inexpensive structure and high reliability is to be realized in an axial gap-type electric rotating machine in which a stator is held by resin molding. An axial gap-type electric rotating machine according to the invention includes: a stator having a stator core; a shaft penetrating the stator; a rotor arranged with a space from the stator with respect to the direction of the shaft; a housing which accommodates the stator; a first connection member which connects the stator core and the housing; and a resin material which fixes the stator to an inner wall of the housing. The first connection member is provided with a first connection portion which connects to the stator core, a second connection portion which connects to the inner wall of the housing, and a plastic deformation portion between the first connection portion and the second connection portion. | 12-31-2015 |
20150380765 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND ALL-SOLID STATE ION SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME - To provide both resistance to reduction and high ion conductivity, a solid electrolyte includes a crystal having a structure expressed as A | 12-31-2015 |
20150379758 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This is comprising: a volume rendering unit for generating a two-dimensional rendered image by converting three-dimensional volume data into two-dimensional volume data; a depth information generator for generating depth information indicative of the length from a virtual view position in a virtual three-dimensional space to the three-dimensional volume data on the basis of the three-dimensional volume data; an anti-aliasing unit for identifying a target in the rendered image based on the depth information and executing anti-aliasing processing on an edge portion of the identified target; and a display unit for displaying an image including the target, on which the anti-aliasing processing has been executed, as a rendered image. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379065 | DATABASE SERVER STORING PLURALITY OF VERSIONS OF DATA, AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A database server includes a database capable of storing multi-version data with respect to various time-series data, and a database management server that manages the database. The database management server includes search means capable of designating a merge policy defining a policy whether mixing of the multi-version data is acceptable in addition to a search condition of the database. The search means generates a result of merging of the multi-version data in the time range contained in the search condition as the data acquisition history so as to be recorded in the database. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378892 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MEMORY ALLOCATION ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - In a computer system in which a virtualization control unit controls a plurality of virtual machines, if memory is collected regardless of a memory usage status of the virtual machine, cache miss increases and an IO performance of overall system deteriorates. In order to solve this problem, a usage status of a cache region within a memory which is utilized by each OS that the plurality of the virtual machines has, and based on a monitoring result, the virtualization control unit decides an allocation region of the memory as a collection target among the allocation region of the memory already allocated to each OS, and collects the allocation region of the memory as the collection target from the OS as a current allocation destination. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378858 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND MEMORY DEVICE FAULT RECOVERY METHOD - The present invention aims at providing a storage system capable of shortening the recovery time from failure while ensuring the reliability of data when failure occurs to a storage device. When failure occurs to a storage device, a recovery processing corresponding to the content of failure is executed for the blocked storage device. The storage device recovered via the execution of the recovery processing is subjected to a check corresponding to the operation status of the storage system or the failure history of the storage device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378848 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND MANAGMENT METHOD OF COMPUTER SYSTEM - A management computer stores an operation requirement of a virtual machine and a scheme of a first configuration change executed by a host computer or a storage apparatus. The management computer determines whether a second configuration change configured so as to be executed automatically in the host computer or the storage apparatus is executed. If it is determined that the second configuration change is executed, the management computer predicts a performance index value concerning a prescribed performance index for the computer or the storage apparatus when executing the second configuration change. The management computer determines whether an anticipated effect value of the configuration change scheme is satisfied based on the predicted performance index value, and creates a substitution plan satisfying both an operation requirement and an anticipated effect value of the virtual machine where it is determined that the anticipated effect value is not satisfied. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378816 | STORAGE APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A control device stores information associating each of a plurality of physical areas with a plurality of logical areas. The control device respectively stores a plurality of first user data included in a first stripe and a first parity data created on the basis thereof in each of the plurality of physical areas, and, in accordance with receiving a write request for updated user data that updates the user data, which is stored in a first physical area, for a first logical area associated with the first physical area, creates a second parity data on the basis of a data group formed using the updated user data and a plurality of second user data that differs from the plurality of first user data. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378637 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING RAID GROUP - A storage subsystem capable of satisfying conditions such as storage capacity and access performance requested by users and to enable expansion of storage drives that are not in RAID group (RG) units is provided at a low cost. The storage subsystem includes a first storage drive for storing data sent from a host computer, a second storage drive having a property that differs from the first storage drive for storing data sent from the host computer, and a processor for controlling the first storage drive and the second storage drive, wherein a processor receives RG configuration requirements from the host computer and determines whether an RG satisfying the RG configuration requirements can be configured, and if the processor determines that an RG can be configured, the first storage drive and the second storage drive are combined to configure the RG. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378614 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE APPARATUS - Upon receipt of an I/O request instructing storage of data in a storage device | 12-31-2015 |
20150378542 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A management system is configured to display, on the basis of management information defining hierarchical relationships of a plurality of elements of a computer system, two or more element objects, which are GUI (Graphical User Interface) objects respectively corresponding to two or more elements belonging to the same hierarchical level, without displaying an element object of a lower-level element therewithin. The management system is configured to control, upon receiving a magnify indication conforming to a magnify operation for a first element object from among the two or more element objects, whether or not to display an element object of a lower-level element belonging to the first element inside the first element object in accordance with whether or not the zoom level reaches a prescribed level when the first element object is magnified in response to the magnify indication. | 12-31-2015 |
20150377922 | SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE AND SAMPLE OBSERVATION METHOD USING SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to increase the detection light amount of near-field light, which is generated in a liquid between a measurement probe and a sample-to-be-inspected, at the time of employing a near-field scanning microscope for measurement in a liquid, and to improve measurement reproducibility and the SN ratio of near-field light images. The present invention provides a scanning probe microscope comprising: a measurement probe that is relatively scanned over a sample-to-be-inspected; a laser beam irradiation system that irradiates the measurement probe with a laser beam; a sample cell that holds the sample-to-be-inspected and that transmits scattered light of near-field light generated between the measurement probe and the sample-to-be-inspected by the laser beam irradiation; and a detector that detects the scattered light that has passed through the sample cell. | 12-31-2015 |
20150377851 | Particle Analyzing Device - An explosive detection apparatus capable of maintaining high availability even in an environment containing a large amount of foreign substances is achieved. The explosive detection apparatus includes means for sequentially replacing a plurality of collection thermal vaporization filters | 12-31-2015 |
20150373111 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A management computer configured to manage one or more storage apparatuses managing a plurality of resources transmits requests to the one or more storage apparatuses to, based on one or more basic information pieces for identifying the one or more storage apparatuses, acquire as a priority configuration information on, out of the plurality of resources, resources logically closer to a host computer of the one or more storage apparatuses. The management computer receives the configuration information corresponding to the requests from the one or more storage apparatuses, and incorporates the received configuration information into configuration management information for managing the configuration information on the resources managed by the one or more storage apparatuses. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372544 | Rotary Electric Machine - It is necessary to keep the positional relation between a stator and a housing for a long time, so the stator and housing must be fixed to each other with increased adhesive strength. Since this kind of rotary electric machine is a mass-produced product, the fixing method is demanded to be simple enough to be suitable for mass production. In order to meet this demand, in a rotary electric machine, for bonding and fixing the stator and the housing for covering the stator by synthetic resin, a plurality of projecting parts are formed on the inner circumference of the housing and synthetic resin is poured into between the stator and housing to bond and fix the stator and housing. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372298 | ALL-SOLID STATE ION SECONDARY BATTERY - An object of the present invention is to enhance energy density and output density of an all-solid state ion secondary battery. To achieve the object, the present invention provides an all-solid state ion secondary battery in which a solid electrolyte layer is joined between a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material layer, characterized in that at least one of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is formed by binding active material particles and solid electrolyte particles together through an ion-conductive and ferroelectric substance. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372272 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERIES - Provided is a negative electrode material for lithium ion batteries, which has a small irreversible capacity, low resistance and excellent output characteristics. In a negative electrode active material-coating material (Formula 1) for lithium ion secondary batteries, A represents a functional group having an amide group (—NHCO—) and a sulfo group (—SO | 12-24-2015 |
20150370911 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information providing method is used to modify a display of a Web page provided to a terminal appropriately to a user. The action log includes identification information of the Web page and an operation content on the Web page by the user. The computer saves information related to a transition of the Web page as transition information based on the acquired action log, saves an operation content included in the acquired action log as operation information, extracts a user having a transition history same as a transition history of a user currently viewing a Web page, acquires an operation content of the extracted user on a Web page the user currently viewing a Web page views next, and modifies, based on the acquired operation content, a display of the Web page the user currently viewing a Web page views next. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370748 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - The present invention aims to improve the signal transmission characteristics by shortening the length of the detour path of the return current. The present invention comprises a return current transmission path relative to a signal transmission path for transmitting signals. The signal transmission path includes a signal pad formed on a circuit board surface layer, and signal through-holes formed on the circuit board surface layer and a circuit board inner layer and connected to the signal pad. The return current transmission path includes a ground pad formed on the circuit board surface layer, and a plurality of ground through-holes formed on the circuit board surface layer and the circuit board inner layer and connected to the ground pad and a ground layer of the circuit board inner layer. Each of the ground through-holes is arranged by being separated on either side of the ground pad. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370627 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PLAN GENERATION METHOD, PLAN GENERATION PROGRAM - A management system that generates a plan which is a countermeasure against an event occurring in a computer system includes: a plan generating unit configured to generate a plan according to the event; and an indicator generating unit configured to generate, as a performance change evaluation indicator of the plan, information on a change in performance of a resource of the computer system, which can occur due to other subject's process executed by the other subject different from a subject of the plan when the plan generated by the plan generating unit is executed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370625 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD - A monitoring system includes positional information for indicating positions to display failures which occur in the computers on a screen image, event information for indicating failures which occur in the computers, times at which the failures have occurred, and statuses of troubleshooting of the failures, an image creation part for creating a screen image indicating failures which occurred by the end time and have not been removed at a current time based on the positional information and the event information, and a display part for displaying the created screen image. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370623 | MONITORING APPARATUS, MONITORING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Monitoring apparatus is configured to execute: obtaining pieces of information about access in a first time slot by specifying the first time slot including access to a first apparatus in the system where a response time is long; selecting a feature common to the access in the first time slot from the pieces of information about the access in the first time slot that have been obtained; first extracting from pieces of information about access in a given period of time, pieces of information about access that has the common feature selected as a feature common to the access in the first time slot; and first generating a first graph which shows changes with time in response time, based on the pieces of information about the access having the feature common to the access in the first time slot that have been extracted. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370619 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a management system managing a computer system including apparatuses to be monitored. The management system holds configuration information on the computer system, analysis rules and plan execution effect rules. The analysis rules each associates a causal event that may occur in the computer system with derivative events that may occur by effects of the causal event and defines the causal event and the derivative events with types of components in the computer system. The plan execution effect rules each indicates types of components that may be affected by a computer system configuration change and specifics of the effects. The management system identifies a first event that may occur when a first plan changing the computer system configuration is executed using the plan execution effect rules and the configuration information, and identifies a range where the first event affects using the analysis rules and the configuration information. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370584 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Provided is a computer system in which computer environments | 12-24-2015 |
20150370484 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA INPUT/OUTPUT METHOD - Proposed are a storage apparatus and a data input/output method capable of improving the response performance of the overall storage apparatus. When a storage controller of a storage apparatus receives a first read command that designates a plurality of storage areas in the logical volume as a read destination, the storage controller identifies the storage media and address that are actually storing the data written into the storage area, creates, for each of the storage media, a second read command that designates a part or all of each of the identified addresses in the identified storage media as a read destination and sends each of the created second read commands to the corresponding storage media, and transfers, to the host computer, the data that was read from each of the addresses designated in the second read command and sent from each of the storage media that sent the second read command. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370479 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, STORAGE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A memory stores first configuration information indicating a plurality of logical storage areas and a first condition defining a state of a storage apparatus as a trigger for the storage apparatus to move data. A CPU acquires: a second condition defining a state of a computer as a trigger for the computer to move a first object, which is stored in a first logical storage area among the plurality of logical storage areas and performed by the computer, to another one of the plurality of logical storage areas; second configuration information associating the first object and the first logical storage area; first state information indicating a state of the plurality of logical storage areas; and second state information indicating a state of the first object. If a state of performing data movement is set, the CPU identifies a cause of the state of performing the data movement. | 12-24-2015 |
20150364797 | PARALLEL-CONNECTED ELECTRICITY STORAGE SYSTEM - A parallel-connected electricity storage system in which a plurality of chargeable and dischargeable electricity storage elements are connected in series as an electricity storage element row and a plurality of the electricity storage element rows are connected in parallel includes an electricity-storage-element-voltage measuring device that measures an electricity storage element voltage of each of the electricity storage elements, an electricity-storage-element-state estimating device that estimates an electricity storage element state of each of the electricity storage elements, an electricity-storage-element-current measuring device that measures an electricity storage element current of each of the electricity storage element rows, a parallel-connected switch that performs connection and disconnection to and from the parallel-connected electricity storage system for each of the electricity storage element rows, and a parallel-connected-switch control means for turning on the parallel-connected switch on the basis of the electricity storage element voltage, the electricity storage element state, and the electricity storage element current. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363331 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE - To improve response performance of a storage control device. A storage control device | 12-17-2015 |
20150363221 | METHOD OF MANAGING TENANT NETWORK CONFIGURATION IN ENVIRONMENT WHERE VIRTUAL SERVER AND NON-VIRTUAL SERVER COEXIST - A non-virtual server and a virtual server make up the same tenant in an environment, in which virtual servers created by dividing a single physical server into a plurality of computer environments coexist with a non-virtual server that directly uses a single physical server as a computer environment without using server virtualization. A management computer is provided with virtual switch management information that shows a correlation between the virtual servers and an internal network to which a relevant virtual server connects, and physical switch management information that shows a correlation between the non-virtual server and an internal network to which the non-virtual server connects. The management computer creates a virtual server that belongs to the same tenant as a physical instance, identifies a first internal network to which the non-virtual server connects, and configures the tenant so that the relevant virtual server is connected to the first internal network. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363128 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM - A management system manages at least a storage system. The management system decides two or more logical storage devices configuring a logical volume to be provided to an application. The management system decides two or more MPs that undertake processes on the two or more logical storage devices, respectively. The management system allocates the decided two or more MPs to the decided two or more logical storage devices such that one MP is allocated to one logical storage device. | 12-17-2015 |
20150362310 | SHAPE EXAMINATION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a shape examination method and device that are capable of measuring, stably and with high precision, complicated three-dimensional shapes. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides a shape examination device comprising: a three-dimensional shape sensor that obtains shape data for an examination target, a path setting unit that uses reference data indicating the examination target shape data, and sets a path which passes through the relative position of the three-dimensional shape sensor relative to the examination target during examination; and a drive unit that controls the relative position of the three-dimensional shape sensor relative to the examination target. | 12-17-2015 |
20150357632 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - An object of the present invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery having a negative electrode having a novel structure in which the metal content is increased as compared to the past and the capacity density of the negative electrode is increased, and the lithium occlusion capacity of the metal is not decreased by repeated charge and discharge. In order to achieve this object, the negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery is characterized by being composed of a mixture of graphite particles capable of occluding and emitting lithium ions and particles containing metal, wherein the average particle diameter of the particles containing metal during discharge is 1/2000 to 1/10 of that of the graphite particles, the graphite particles have an average particle diameter during discharge of 2 μm to 20 μm, and addition ratio by weight of the particles containing metal is 10% to 50%. | 12-10-2015 |
20150357543 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE - In order to provide a thermoelectric conversion element which has a high Seebeck coefficient, a low thermal conductivity, and a high performance, even if the material system that has a low environmental load and can reduce the cost is used, the thermoelectric conversion element in which lattice points are classified into two or more kinds (A site and B site), lattices of which the kinds are different are connected to each other, the numbers of lattices of which the kinds are different are different (A site: 2, and B site: 1), and a lattice structure is configured by arranging nanoparticles or semiconductor quantum dots, includes areas of which conductivity types are different. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356134 | DE-DUPLICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Chunk de-duplication performance is improved. A de-duplication system has a cut-out processing unit which inputs a content from a client terminal thereinto, determines a calculation range from a predetermined maximum chunk size and a predetermined minimum chunk size, divides the calculation range into at least two small calculation ranges, sets the positions of windows for rolling hash calculation so that the rolling hash calculation is continuous between the two small calculation ranges, and subjects the at least two small calculation ranges to the rolling hash calculation with shifting of the windows based on parallel processing to cut out a chunk from the content, and a de-duplication processing unit which does not store the cut-out chunk into a storage device when the chunk having the same contents as those of the cut-out chunk is already stored in the storage device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356109 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention relates to a storage apparatus that executes de-duplication processing. Specifically, a storage apparatus includes a storing apparatus configured to provide a first storage area and a second storage area and a control unit. The control unit determines, on the basis of a result of comparison of a compression ratio of compressed data with a threshold, whether first duplication determination for determining whether data same as the data compressed without being stored in the first storage area is stored in the second storage area is executed or second duplication determination for determining whether data same as the data compressed after being stored in the first storage area is stored in the second storage area is executed. Further, the control unit changes the threshold on the basis of a state of the storage apparatus. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356108 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - The present invention is provided to suppress input and output requests to a storage apparatus when a plurality of cloned files has been created based on one shared file. A storage system comprises a plurality of clone-use cache areas | 12-10-2015 |
20150356078 | STORAGE SYSTEM, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD - The present invention provides a storage subsystem capable of realizing efficient data migration and high access performance. During migration of data between storage subsystems, data migration methods are selected between a “PUSH” type and a “PULL” type method based on a data migration policy set in advance to perform data migration processes. An access characteristics of a file and a folder storing the file are determined based on a file access frequency or a final access date and time information in a migration source storage subsystem, and the migration order of a file group determined to have a high possibility of being accessed during data migration is changed between the “PUSH” type and the “PULL” type. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356064 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION RELATING TO TARGET - A management system, on the basis of a value group that includes a plurality of values included in time-series data relating to a target, corresponding to a first standpoint, and corresponding respectively to a plurality of time points, displays a graph that has a first axis corresponding to a time and a second axis corresponding to the first standpoint and represents time-series variation of values corresponding to the first standpoint, and displays electronic tags at designated coordinates that are coordinates designated by a user, in the graph. The management system displays characters that are input by a user, in a displayed electronic tag. The management system stores, in a storage device, a tag information unit with which designated coordinates (values and time point) and characters input in an electronic tag are associated. In the graph that is re-displayed by the management system, provided is the electronic tag at coordinates including values and time point associated with the tag information unit. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355935 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A plurality of process content is retained, said process content including identifiers of a plurality of part content included in each process and information which denotes dependencies among the plurality of part content. When information is inputted which designates a first process and the part content of a problem portion which is included in the first process, a process similar to the first process is retrieved. On the basis of whether there is a change in any of the plurality of part content which is included in the retrieved process, an evaluation value of the retrieved process is either incremented or decremented, and the information relating to the plurality of processes is outputted on the basis of the evaluation value. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355904 | PROGRAM VISUALIZATION DEVICE, PROGRAM VISUALIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM VISUALIZATION PROGRAM - A data visualization device includes a module for a specific viewpoint which is selected and a diagram representing the program is generated for modules included in source code. For a module extracted using a module call relationship diagram creation unit, a data analysis unit calculates the relevance of a viewpoint, which is input by a user, by utilizing a module call relationship and a common data usage relationship. The relevance is calculated by multiplying the viewpoint relevance of a viewpoint dependent module serving as the base point and a viewpoint relevance weight in an action determination table and in inter-module path viewpoint relevance weight data. The calculated viewpoint relevance is corrected using a viewpoint relevance correction value in viewpoint relevance determination noise correction threshold data. Final viewpoint relevance is stored into per-module viewpoint relevance determination data and a program diagram in accordance with this viewpoint relevance is created. | 12-10-2015 |
20150354628 | Duplex Bearing Device - There are provided a duplex bearing device that can reduce the temperature of lubricating oil supplied from a journal bearing to a thrust bearing and thereby can reduce the total amount of oil supplied, and a rotating machine equipped with this. A duplex bearing device | 12-10-2015 |
20150351702 | DEVICE FOR ASSESSING DROWSINESS LEVEL - Drowsiness of a human may be caused by an underlying disease such as sleep apnea syndrome in some cases, but not in other cases. Regardless of the cause, drowsiness occurring during driving of a vehicle or the like may in some cases lead to a serious accident involving loss of life. Accordingly, a technique is needed to analyze drowsiness level with high accuracy so as to prevent accidents and ensure safety. To solve this problem, a device for assessing drowsiness level is provided for calculating a drowsiness level of a living body based on a core body temperature and a surface temperature in a peripheral region of the living body. | 12-10-2015 |
20150350322 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM - The present invention provides a storage subsystem capable of realizing a backend network enabling SSDs arranged in a small number of rows to be shared among controllers, and capable of having a large number of HDDs loaded thereto, according to which the performance of the storage is enhanced. In a topology of the backend network, the respective controllers | 12-03-2015 |
20150350019 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In a cloud environment where multiple applications having different performance characteristics are operated in a mixture, in order to specify the cause of performance deterioration and to solve the confliction of requests related to a shared resource, the present invention detects the performance deterioration of resources allocated to multiple instances constituting a logical server configuration, and extracts an instance sharing resources existing performance deterioration, and compares a performance tendency of the extracted instance and a performance pattern showing a characteristics extracted from a performance information of the resource in association with a bottleneck factor, to thereby estimate the bottleneck factor by calculating mutual similarities and determining a performance pattern where the calculated similarity becomes maximum. | 12-03-2015 |
20150349341 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A reduction in irreversible capacity is attained without degrading other battery characteristics. A negative electrode material, a negative electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, a lithium ion secondary battery, and a manufacturing method thereof, the negative electrode material containing a carbonaceous material, in which the interplanar spacing (d | 12-03-2015 |
20150347953 | KPI SPECIFICATION APPARATUS AND KPI SPECIFICATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a method of calculating a correlation level for each combination between a city indicator and an infrastructure indicator and selecting a city indicator as an issue of a corresponding city to calculate an infrastructure KPI of the city as well as an importance level. Provided is a configuration that includes: a calculation processing unit that processes received data; and a storage device that is connected to the calculation processing unit and stores a plurality of city indicators and a plurality of infrastructure indicators for each city. The calculation processing unit is configured to calculate a correlation level between a designated city indicator among the plurality of city indicators and an infrastructure indicator related to the designated city indicator, and add up the correlation levels for each of the infrastructure indicators to calculate an importance level. | 12-03-2015 |
20150344831 | STIMULATION-RESPONSIVE MATERIAL AND CELL CULTURE CONTAINER MADE THEREOF - A stimulation-responsive material comprises regions of pH-responsive polymer and regions of temperature-responsive polymer, the regions existing at different locations. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343383 | REVERSE OSMOSIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE CALCULATION METHOD, REVERSE OSMOSIS EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE CALCULATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An input condition setting unit of a reverse osmosis equipment performance calculation device displays an input condition setting screen for calculating operational performance of reverse osmosis equipment on a displaying device. A calculation condition list generating unit generates a calculation condition list for a plurality of cases on the basis of the input conditions set via the input condition setting screen. An operational performance calculating unit sequentially extracts calculation conditions for one case from the calculation condition list and repeatedly performs operational performance calculations for the calculation conditions for the plurality of cases. A calculation result displaying unit displays a list of the calculation results for the plurality of cases obtained by the operational performance calculations on the displaying device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150342095 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present invention aims at providing a storage subsystem capable of improving a backend-side I/O processing performance and enabling a single semiconductor memory adapter to be replaced at a time. Therefore, the present invention provides one or more semiconductor memory adapter boards mounting semiconductor memories each having smaller capacity than SSDs attached detachably to a drive canister, a wide port connection established to access the semiconductor memories, the semiconductor memories used as a read cache area of HDDs, and further adopts a wind direction control structure for ensuring a cooling wind path to the HDDs when an adapter board is attached. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341044 | INTERLEAVED A/D CONVERTER - It is a problem that each ADC sampling circuit connected in parallel in an interleaved ADC releases an electric charge depending on an input signal when sampling is performed and other ADCs connected in parallel sample the input signal disturbed thereby so that resolution of the interleaved ADC is decreased. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339199 | STORAGE DEVICE TO BACKUP CONTENT BASED ON A DEDUPLICATION SYSTEM - Chunks that commonly occur in each content type are aggregated in a first container. To be more specific, a storage device used for content backup is configured with: (1) a memory device that provides a memory region for one or a plurality of first containers used to store first chunks that commonly occur in each content type among chunks extracted from the contents of writing targets, and for one or a plurality of second containers used to store other chunks than the first chunks; and (2) a backup unit that decides whether each of the chunks extracted from the contents of the writing targets is a first duplication chunk duplicating a chunk stored in the first container, and further decides, for only a chunk that is decided not to be the first duplication chunk, whether each of the chunks is a second duplication chunk duplicating a chunk stored in the second container, and then stores only a chunk that is decided not to be the second duplication chunk in the second container. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339184 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A storage apparatus includes a channel control unit, a storage device, and a processor. The channel control unit includes a plurality of operation units. The processor specifies, when receiving a request for read of a plurality of pieces of element data from a host computer, the plurality of pieces of element data to the plurality of operation units, respectively. The plurality of operation units respectively reads the plurality of pieces of element data from the storage device, calculates a plurality of partial codes that is a plurality of guarantee codes on the basis of the plurality of pieces of element data, and transmits the plurality of partial codes to the processor. The processor calculates, on the basis of the plurality of partial codes, a sequence code that is a guarantee code of sequence data including the plurality of pieces of element data which is concatenated. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339076 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A storage system comprises a storage apparatus and a storage device that is a basis for a storage area provided to the storage apparatus. The storage device determines whether or not a first format that is a format of data stored in the storage device and a second format that is a format of data utilized by the storage apparatus managing the data match with each other, and performs format conversion of either converting data in the first format to data in the second format or converting data in the second format to data in the first format in a case where the first format and the second format do not match with each other. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338840 | PATH INTERFERENCE AND GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD - In devices for generating a path of a tool of a processing machine by way of computer simulation, an NC program is created using a generated processing path. The NC program used to be corrected by verification of actually moving the processing machine. In contrast, the disclosed processing path generation device has been constituted to be provided with a means for calculating a closest distance and direction from a relationship of a position and posture between a tool and a work at an arbitrary point upon the processing path; a means for imparting a color determined by the closest distance and the direction calculated at the point upon the processing path; a means for panoramically displaying the color imparted to the work; and a means for correcting the relationship of the a position and posture between the tool and the work on the basis of information from a display device. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338225 | CENTRAL APPARATUS, DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD - A central apparatus that communicates with an information terminal mounted in a vehicle that travels by employing stored energy, includes: a reception unit that receives position information for the information terminal or for the vehicle, and a search condition inputted to the information terminal; a potential driving distance calculation unit that calculates an energy consumption amount for each of various road links based upon the position information and the search condition, and calculates a potential driving distance based upon the energy consumption amounts that have been calculated; and a transmission unit that transmits to the information terminal information relating to the potential driving distance that has been calculated for display upon the information terminal. | 11-26-2015 |
20150337836 | Gear Pump - A gear pump ( | 11-26-2015 |
20150331921 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND SIMULATION METHOD - An object of the invention is to provide a simulation system and a simulation method which are capable of efficiently presenting a simulation result which is valuable to a user. The invention achieves the above-mentioned object by performing simulation, displaying a plurality of simulation results as samples, receiving an input of information on a user's evaluation with respect to each of the displayed results by a user interface, and outputting a group of simulation results on the basis of the input information. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331916 | COMPUTER, DATA ACCESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A computer system including a shared file server manages the access to file data for performing access to the file data accurately and efficiently. This computer includes a plurality of first name spaces to which is assigned an access path to data stored in a storage area, and a name space to which is assigned a path corresponding to the access path and which is different from the first name spaces. When the access paths generated in different first name spaces are the same, the corresponding paths which correspond to the same access paths are changed into mutually different paths. Moreover, by assigning a path corresponding to the data to be analyzed, it is possible to efficiently access the requested data among a large amount of data. In addition, the sorting of the corresponding paths is changed according to the load of the computer storing the data. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331793 | STORAGE SYSTEM - In the present invention, when configuration data on a LFS (Log-Structured File system) is stored on a virtual volume constructed from a plurality of storage mediums, a temporal change of the file size on the file system is roughly estimated. Then, in accordance with the change, a capacity that is needed on the virtual volume is provided, a cursor at the end of a log is set, and a write cursor for writing data is set so as to avoid the position behind the cursor at the end of the log. Accordingly, it is possible to, when the LFS occupies only a small area on the virtual volume, avoid early execution of the allocation of an available capacity, and thus avoid a circumstance in which a large number of storage mediums are needed at art early stage of the operation of the virtual volume (see | 11-19-2015 |
20150331753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DISASTER RECOVERY VIRTUALIZATION - Systems and methods described herein involve a virtual storage utilized to virtualize the storage of storage systems across multiple sites. The virtual storage is associated with a virtual multipath control. The virtual multipath control manages the virtual path state of the inter-physical storage, the remote copy volume state which has primary volume or secondary volume state, and the volume copy operation mode such as synchronous copy mode journal copy mode, or bitmap resync mode. The virtual multipath control of the virtual storage facilitates choices from the host for a preferred site, path, state, and volume by utilizing a virtual multipath state from a get virtual multipath information command. | 11-19-2015 |
20150328713 | STAINLESS STEEL, FLUID MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING STAINLESS STEEL - A stainless steel comprises a base metal and a coating material formed on the surface of the base metal, wherein the coating material has a surface on which crystal planes with a maximum atom density orient. | 11-19-2015 |
20150326677 | SCREEN INFORMATION COLLECTING COMPUTER, SCREEN INFORMATION COLLECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - It is provided a screen information collecting computer for collecting client screen information serving as information on a client screen from a client computer for receiving a user's operation on the client screen being displayed, the screen information collecting computer comprising: a client screen information collection part for collecting the client screen information from the client computer; an operation information collection part for collecting operation information indicating information by which the user's operation performed on the client screen is identifiable; and a trigger operation determination part for determining, among the user's operations on the client screen, a trigger operation indicating a timing to control the client screen information collection part to collect the client screen information, the trigger operation determination part being configured to determine the trigger operation based on the client screen information displayed on the client computer and the operation information. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326040 | METHOD OF RECEIVING CHARGE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING CHARGE, CHARGE CONTROL UNIT AND CHARGING EQUIPMENT - Charging equipment and a charge control unit are provided, in which a plurality of devices mounted with battery can be simultaneously charged by the single charging equipment. Further, a method of controlling charge and a method of receiving charge are also provided. The charging equipment supplies electric power to the battery for charging, comprising a power output part which outputs DC power used for charging, a plurality of user operation units which can be connected with a vehicle equipped with a battery as a device mounted with battery, and the charge control unit which controls a power supply from the power output part to the user operation unit. Herein, the charge control unit distributes the electric power outputted from the power output part to supply the distributed power to the user operation unit connected with the vehicle. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324566 | Authentication Device and Authentication Method - An authentication device that authenticates an individual by using features of a biological object includes an input device | 11-12-2015 |
20150324507 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN VERIFICATION SYSTEM, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN VERIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - [Object] A printed circuit board design verification system for reducing the entire process time required for designing of a printed circuit board. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324489 | DESIGN CHANGE PROCESS MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - There is provided a design change process management device including: a design change metadata generation unit that extracts design parameters from design information such as CAD data and simulation data and registers the extracted design parameters as first design change metadata; a design change metadata archive in which the first design change metadata is registered; a design change process generation unit that generates first design change process data from differences between the registered first design change metadata and second design change metadata already registered in the design change metadata archive; a design change process archive in which the generated first design change process data is registered; and a similar design change search unit that searches the design change process archive for second design change process data similar to a design change designated by an operator. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324482 | NETWORK GRAPH GENERATION METHOD AND DECISION-MAKING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - A decision-making support system which is a client-server system comprising: multiple servers; a client having a display; a network; and a database. On the basis of data acquisition conditions supplied via the client the multiple servers acquire from the data base on multiple distributed processing platforms, a first data group spanning from the past to the present, and generate a first network graph for the time from the past to the present. The multiple servers also execute multiple simulations based on the first data group, on the basis of provided simulation conditions, and generate second and third network graphs for a time not included in the first data group or for the future. The client receives the results of the generation of these network graphs and displays on the display the first through third network graphs spanning from the past to the present, and to the future, thereby providing the user with a scenario map. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324323 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND GRAPH PROCESSING METHOD - A parallel computer system executes a plurality of processes each being assigned a memory space, by placing the information of a first graph vertex and the information of a first graph vertex group connected to the first graph vertex in a first memory space assigned to a first process, placing the information of the first graph vertex and the information of a second graph vertex group connected to the first graph vertex in a second memory space assigned to a second process, and sharing the result of computation concerning the first graph vertex in the first process and the result of computation concerning the first graph vertex in the second process between the first process and the second process. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324294 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CACHE CONTROL METHOD - A cache memory comprises a cache controller and a nonvolatile semiconductor memory as a storage medium. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory comprises multiple blocks, which are data erase units, and each block comprises multiple pages, which are data write and read units. The cache controller receives data and attribute information of the data, and, based on the received attribute information and attribute information of the data stored in the multiple blocks, selects a storage-destination block for storing the received data, and writes the received data to a page inside the selected storage-destination block. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324143 | STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING MULTIPLE STORAGE APPARATUSES AND POOL VIRTUALIZATION METHOD - A plurality of storage apparatuses including a first and second storage apparatus, wherein said first storage apparatus is configured to have a first virtual volume composed of a plurality of virtual segments, at least said second storage apparatus is configured to have a pool composed of a plurality of real pages, each storage apparatus is configured to manage a virtual pool comprising one or more pools including at least said pool, said virtual pool is composed of a plurality of virtual pages, each virtual page corresponding to any real page, and said first storage apparatus is configured to receive a write command that specifies an address belonging to an unallocated virtual segment, allocate a free virtual page to said unallocated virtual segment, and write data to the real page corresponding to the allocated virtual page, even when said first storage apparatus does not have a pool composed of real pages. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324139 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - In a storage system, a real page is allocated from a pool to a write destination virtual page in a virtual volume. The real page includes multiple real regions. The storage system moves all valid data stored in two or more move-source real pages respectively allocated to two or more virtual pages, to move-destination real pages the number of which is less than the number of move-source real pages in units of real regions. Each piece of valid data can be used by any one of the access sources. The storage system writes the predetermined data to all move-source real regions in each of move-source real pages, so that each of the move-source real pages is set as a recovery target real page which is a real page storing only the predetermined data, and performs real capacity recovery for making each recovery target real page into an unallocated state. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319245 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes a server that issues an access request with a virtual volume among the plurality of virtual volumes allocated in a plurality of storage apparatuses as an access target and measures a latency in each access path connecting each storage apparatus and the server, and a plurality of control units which are disposed in each storage apparatus and control the I/O of data. Among the plurality of control units, a main control unit that controls the migration of a migration source virtual volume selects, as a migration destination storage apparatus, one storage apparatus connected to an access path from which was obtained a second measured value, which is a measured value that is smaller than a first measured value indicating a latency in an access path connecting a migration source storage apparatus, which includes the migration source virtual volume, and the server, and indicates a latency in an access path connecting a storage apparatus, other than the migration source storage apparatus, and the server, and allocates a migration destination virtual volume in the migration destination storage apparatus. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319104 | OPERATION CONTENT EVALUATION SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An operation content evaluation system for evaluating an operation content for controlling computer resources, the operation content evaluation system including: a content site including a content management server for distributing operation contents for controlling computer resources; and a user site including a content evaluation server for evaluating one of the operation contents and computer resources, wherein the content management server holds catalogs associated one-to-one with the operation contents and each of the catalogs includes prerequisites for executing an operation content and evaluation elements for the operation content, wherein the content evaluation server holds configuration information collected from the computer resources in resource management information, and wherein the content evaluation server acquires the catalogs from the content management server, selects a catalog associated with the operation content to be evaluated from the catalogs, and evaluates the operation content by comparing the selected catalog with the resource management information. | 11-05-2015 |
20150318144 | SPECTROSCOPIC ELEMENT AND CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM DEVICE USING THE SAME - To analyze an element to be evaluated with high sensitivity and high accuracy in a short period of time, in an electron beam analyzer including a wavelength dispersive X-ray analyzer in an electron microscope. The electron beam analyzer has one diffraction grating in which a plurality of patterns having maximum X-ray reflectance with respect to the respective X-rays are formed. It simultaneously detects an X-ray as an energy reference and an X-ray spectrum to be evaluated. The positional displacement of X-ray energy due to the installation/replacement of the diffraction grating is corrected using the X-ray spectrum as the energy reference, thereby enabling to perform an analysis with high sensitivity and high accuracy in a short period of time. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317097 | DE-DUPLICATION IN FLASH MEMORY MODULE - Data capacity efficiency is improved by de-duplicating data assigned with a code that is different for each data. A storage apparatus comprising a flash memory control device equipped with one or more flash memory modules, wherein the flash memory module comprises at least one flash memory chip for providing a storage area, and a controller for controlling writing/reading of data including user data and a guarantee code accompanying the user data to and from the storage area provided by the flash memory chip, wherein the controller respectively divides a plurality of the data having the common user data into the user data and the guarantee code, stores one of the user data in an area of a predetermined unit of the storage area, and links and stores each of the guarantee codes accompanying the plurality of user data in an area of a predetermined unit of the storage area. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317093 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage controller has a processor, a volatile first cache memory that is coupled to the processor and that temporarily stores data, a nonvolatile second cache memory that is coupled to a microprocessor and that temporarily stores data, and a battery that is configured to supply electrical power to at least the processor and the first cache memory when a power stoppage has occurred. The second cache memory includes a dirty data area for storing dirty data, which is data that is not stored in the storage device, and a remaining area other than the dirty data area. When a power stoppage has occurred, the processor stores as target data in the remaining area of the second cache memory either all or a part of the data stored in the first cache memory. | 11-05-2015 |
20150313005 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - [Object] There is suggested a printed circuit board capable of realizing impedance matching by securing joint reliability between signal pins of a surface mount connector and signal pin pads and preventing the reduction of impedance of signal pin pads while minimizing the reduction of a wirable area. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312799 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND DYNAMIC ASSOCIATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - It is provided a dynamic association control apparatus comprising: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information related to an object relay node and to candidate base stations to be associated; a blocking probability calculation part configured to calculate respectively a candidate blocking probability in a case where the object relay node performs association with each of the candidate base stations to be associated according to the acquired information; and an association control part configured to select an object blocking probability from the calculated candidate blocking probabilities, and use a base station corresponding to the selected object blocking probability as an object base station to which the association is transferred, so that the object relay node changes to be associated with the object base station to which the association is transferred. | 10-29-2015 |
20150311479 | ORGANIC LUMINESCENT MATERIALS, COATING SOLUTION USING SAME FOR ORGANIC - It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic light-emitting device which can emit white light by easily controlling dopant concentrations. The organic light-emitting device has a first electrode ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150310129 | METHOD OF MANAGING DATABASE, MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention is a method of managing a database, which manages a graph database and a relational database on a computer provided with a processor and memory, wherein the computer acquires frequency of reference for each type of node of a graph database, extracts types of nodes for which the reference frequency is greater than or equal to a threshold, converts the extracted nodes to a table structure, and then retains the same as an intermediate table, and upon receiving an inquiry by the relational database, references the intermediate table. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309920 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING CONTROL SOFTWARE OF A CONTROLLED SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and a system for testing control software of a controlled system, the controlled system comprising one or more electronic control units, one or more actuators, and one or more sensors, each sensor being adapted to input a respective sensor signal to at least one of the one or more electronic control units and each actuator being adapted to act responsive to respective control signals input from at least one of the electronic control units, and each electronic control unit being configured to execute a respective executable control program based on control software code data to output one or more control signals to the one or more actuators on the basis of input sensor signals. The control testing process comprises providing control software code data for each of the one or more electronic control units, providing simulation code data for the controlled system, creating a system model based on the provided control software code data provided for each of the one or more electronic control units and the provided simulation code data, creating an executable program based on the created system model, and performing a software verification process on the basis of the executable program. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309895 | DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT METHOD - A decision-making support device configured to store a predetermined criterion defining a damage degree according to a content of each of disasters, and predetermined information symbolizing various human activities in disasters, and configured to determine a damage degree for each of areas at a disaster-stricken area by comparing disaster information acquired from a predetermined interface with a predetermined criterion, determine an activity degree of human activities for each of the areas based on appearance frequency of predetermined information in various types of information acquired from a predetermined interface or disaster information, identify, as a support-needed area, an area with a higher damage degree and a lower activity degree than those of other areas, or an area with the damage degree and the activity degree higher by a predetermined level or more than those of other areas, and output information of the support-needed area to a predetermined device. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309739 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to suppress inconsistency of mount information necessary for mounting a volume in a storage device having a primary volume and a secondary volume. | 10-29-2015 |