| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 709215000 | Partitioned shared memory | 41 |
| 20080215702 | Merging scalable nodes into single-partition merged system using service processors of nodes - Controlling the merging of nodes into a single-partition merged system using the nodes' service processors is disclosed. The system runs a single instance of an operating system. A user communicates with a service processor of a predetermined boot node to enter partition configuration information for the system without using a dedicated console. The partition configuration information is stored by the service processor of the boot node, and transmitted from the service processor of the boot node to the service processors of predetermined secondary nodes. The service processor of each secondary node then stores the partition configuration information. At reset, power-up, or power-down of any secondary node, the reset, power-up or power-down is conveyed to the service processor of the boot node, which resets, starts up, or shuts down the system, including transmitting commands to the service processors of the secondary nodes to individually reset, start up, or shut down. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090024715 | Method, System, and Apparatus for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Resources - A dynamic reconfiguration to include on-line addition, deletion, and replacement of individual modules of to support dynamic partitioning of a system, interconnect (link) reconfiguration, memory RAS to allow migration and mirroring without OS intervention, dynamic memory reinterleaving, CPU and socket migration, and support for global shared memory across partitions is described. To facilitate the on-line addition or deletion, the firmware is able to quiesce and de-quiesce the domain of interest so that many system resources, such as routing tables and address decoders, can be updated in what essentially appears to be an atomic operation to the software layer above the firmware. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090106386 | Methods and systems for pushing content fragments into a distributed storage system - Methods and systems for pushing content fragments into a distributed storage system, comprising registering a plurality of storage-and-computing elements that are accessed using Internet protocol; associating the plurality of storage-and-computing elements with a plurality of storage element types; and distributing content fragments to the storage-and-computing elements utilizing a predefined distribution function that maps content fragments to storage element types. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090138567 | Network on chip with partitions - A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium is provided. Embodiments of the design structure include a network on chip (‘NOC’), the NOC comprising: integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controller, each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and a network interface controller, each memory communications controller controlling communication between an IP block and memory, and each network interface controller controlling inter-IP block communications through routers; the network organized into partitions, each partition including at least one IP block, each partition assigned exclusive access to a separate physical memory address space; and one or more applications executing on one or more of the partitions. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138568 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN A LOCAL DATA CACHE AND A DATA STORE - A method and system for maintaining synchronization between a local data cache and a data store is disclosed. The method includes comparing first validation information and second validation information, and synchronizing first data stored in a local data cache with second data stored in a data store, if the comparison indicates that the synchronizing is needed. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090144389 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND VIRTUAL COMPUTER MIGRATION CONTROL METHOD - A migration source virtual server and a migration destination virtual server respectively include a volume information management unit for associating and managing volume identifying information for identifying the logical volumes and the logical volumes managed by the management OS of the migration source virtual server and the management OS of the migration destination virtual server; an identification unit for the migration source virtual server and the migration destination virtual server to identify the same logical volume as a target logical volume based on the volume identifying information; and a virtual OS migration unit for migrating data in an memory area used by a virtual OS of the migration source virtual server to the migration destination virtual server, and migrating update data in the memory area to be updated during the migration to the migration destination virtual server. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090164600 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACE-SHIFTING MEDIA ITEMS - A system and method are provided for place-shifting media items. In general, a media zone broker operates to enable place-shifting of media items shared with the media zone by associated users among user devices of the associated users in such a manner that each media item is played by at most a number (N) of the user devices at any one time. The number (N) is a function of collective rights to the media item of one or more of the users sharing the media item in the media zone. In one embodiment, the number (N) is the number of users sharing the media item in the media zone or a function of the number of users sharing the media item in the media zone. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090172125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MIGRATING A COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT ACROSS BLADE SERVERS - A method and system for migrating a computer environment, such as a virtual machine, from a first blade server to a second blade server includes storing data generated by the first and second blade servers on a shared hard drive and transferring a logic unit number from the first blade server to the second blade server. The logic unit number identifies a location of the shared hard drive used by the first blade server to store data. Additionally, the state of the central processing unit of the first blade server may be transferred to the second blade server. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090182837 | Spatial Sieve Tree - A method, apparatus, and system is described for creating a spatial sieve tree which stores, manages, and manipulates multidimensional data by partitioning the bounds of the nodes of the tree, creating child nodes which each have defined bounds associated with a partitioned portion of their parent node(s) and may be further partitioned into additional levels of child nodes, and determining which level of the tree has the smallest size node in which a data object could wholly fit regardless of the data object's location in coordinate space and the one or more nodes of that determined level that could at least partially contain the data object based on the bounds of the one or more nodes and the data object's location in coordinate space. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090198791 | TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE AGGREGATION - Techniques for distributed storage aggregation are presented. A storage aggregation server interacts over a network with a plurality of contributing servers to organize and partition excess storage on each of the contributing servers as a logical Random Array of Independent Disks (RAID). Network resource can process Input/Output (I/O) operations over the network against the RAID using an Internet Small Computers Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocol. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198792 | Software Application Striping - A distributed computing system comprising networking infrastructure and methods of executing an application on the distributed computing system is presented. Interconnected networking nodes offering available computing resources form a network fabric. The computing resources can be allocated from the networking nodes, including available processing cores or memory elements located on the networking nodes. A software application can be stored in a system memory comprising memory elements allocated from the nodes. The software application can be disaggregated into a plurality of executable portions that are striped across the allocated processing cores by assigning each core a portion to execute. When the cores are authenticated with respect to their portions, the cores are allowed to execute the portions by accessing the system memory over the fabric. While executing the software application, the networking nodes having the allocated cores concurrently forward packets through the fabric. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090271494 | Method, System and Program Product for Providing Server Security Via A Security Sensor Application Shared by Multiple Operating System Partitions - When a hypervisor in a computer server receives input/output (I/O) data traffic, the hypervisor sends the I/O data traffic to a security sensor application shared by multiple operating system (OS) partitions. If the security sensor application indicates that the I/O data traffic meets pre-defined security standards in the security sensor application, and the I/O data traffic is addressed to one of the OS partitions in the computer server, the hypervisor sends the I/O data traffic to the applicable OS partition. If the I/O data traffic meets the pre-defined security standards, and the I/O data traffic is not addressed to one of the OS partitions, the hypervisor sends the I/O data traffic to an external destination in a network coupled to the computer server. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100030867 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - The invention includes a system, apparatus, and method for storing media content within a service provider network. The system includes multi-service servers associated with access points adapted to allow end-user devices to access the service provider network. Each multi-service server includes a common storage partition adapted for storing media content and a plurality of end-user storage partitions adapted for maintaining associations to media content. The system includes media servers that communicate with the multi-service servers for providing media content to the multi-service servers. In response to a request for media content received from one of a plurality of end-user devices, the requested media content stored in the common storage partition is associated with a selected one of the end-user storage partitions associated with the end-user. The request for media content is received in response to end-user directed advertisements received at any of the plurality of end-user devices. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100121935 | Hybrid replicated shared memory - A multiple computer system with hybrid replicated shared memory is disclosed. The local memory ( | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100169452 | CAUSATION OF A DATA READ OPERATION AGAINST A FIRST STORAGE SYSTEM BY A SERVER ASSOCIATED WITH A SECOND STORAGE SYSTEM ACCORDING TO A HOST GENERATED INSTRUCTION - Methods and systems of causation of a data read operation against a first storage system by a server associated with a second storage system according to a host generated instruction are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of causing a data read operation against a first storage system, the data read operation performed by a server associated with a second storage system according to a machine-readable instruction generated by a host directly associated with the first storage system. The method further includes saving data from the host to the first storage system, creating a record of at least one data write comprising the data saved to the first storage system, and using a variable contained in the record to process a mapping scheme resulting in knowledge of at least one physical offset in the first storage system to receive the at least one data write. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110022678 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA LOGGING AND ANALYSIS - A method of logging internet requests includes defining a plurality of field types of interest and receiving a request from the internet including one or more fields. The method also includes determining that a first field type of a first field of the one or more fields matches one of the plurality of field types of interest and caching at least a portion of the first field in a cache. The method further includes determining that a second field type of a second field of the one or more fields matches one of the plurality of field types of interest caching at least a portion of the second field in the cache. The method includes transmitting the cache to a server, determining, a number of occurrences of a field value of at least one of the first field type or the second field type, and providing a report including the number of occurrences of the field value. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110153772 | HiperSockets SIGA Light-Sending Without Outbound Queue - Performing logical partition (LPAR)-to-LPAR communication in a network computing environment. Read or write requests to different memory areas of a single computer memory are controlled by a storage control element, where the requests are issued by different multiple operating systems using a general network transfer format. A request is sent by a first operating system to said storage control element, where the request is executed with a processor instruction. A result of the request is received by the same or a second operating system. A modified processor instruction is sent to the storage control element, which implements an execution of the instruction synchronously performed to the sending of the instruction, without buffering the request of the instruction in a dedicated queue. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110258284 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REPRESENTING A PARTITION OF N W-BIT INTERVALS ASSOCIATED TO D-BIT DATA IN A DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for routing in a data communications network, comprising the steps of providing in a storage having a certain amount of storage capacity, a datagram forwarding data structure provided for indicating where to forward a datagram in said network, which data structure is in the form of a block tree, or fixed stride trie, comprising at least one leaf and possibly a number of nodes including partial nodes, said data structure having a height, corresponding to a number of memory accesses required for lookup in an arbitrary partition comprising n intervals, step | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120036214 | ALTERNATIVE TRANSFER OF LOGICAL PARTITIONS (LPAR) FROM ONE LPAR COMPUTER SYSTEM TO ANOTHER - An alternative migration of an LPAR from one server system to another when either or both of the server systems cannot access a Storage Area Network (SAN) or like external storage network. If said source and destination server system do not have access to the same SAN, then a mirror image of said all data storage supporting the transferred LPAR is created and transmitted to local storage supporting the destination server system and then the logical partition (LPAR) is transmitted over the connecting network from the source server system to the destination server system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120271907 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE METHOD - Proposed are a computer system and a performance assurance method capable of stabilizing the I/O performance of a plurality of logical partitions sharing a network path. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120311069 | Regulated Access to Network-Based Digital Data Repository - Improved techniques and systems for storage, delivery and acquisition of digital assets are disclosed. The techniques and systems are suitable and useful for storing, delivering and accessing digital assets (e.g., media assets) that have been acquired from online stores. The techniques and systems are also suitable and useful for storing, delivering and accessing digital assets that have been acquired from other than from online stores. Regardless, the digital assets become accessible from a network-based digital data repository (e.g., cloud data storage) via electronic devices (e.g., user devices) and thus usable by the electronic devices. In one embodiment, subsequent access to the digital assets from the network-based digital data repository by electronic devices can be limited through use of a limited set of assignable slots. The digital assets can include media assets and/or non-media assets. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120324039 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DISK SHARING METHOD USED THEREBY - A first server including a local disk and a second server are logically partitioned by virtualization units. The first and second servers each have a storage controller LPAR with a local disk sharing function running thereon. The storage controller LPARs running on the first and second servers communicate with each other. When a disk I/O command issued by the second LPAR running on the second server is transferred to the local disk of the first server, the second LPAR reads data stored in the local disk or writes data thereto. In this way, the local disk is shared. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130110968 | REDUCING LATENCY IN MULTICAST TRAFFIC RECEPTION | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130166672 | Physically Remote Shared Computer Memory - A computing system with physically remote shared computer memory, the computing system including: a remote memory management module, a plurality of computing devices, a plurality of remote memory modules that are external to the plurality of computing devices, and a remote memory controller, the remote memory management module configured to partition the physically remote shared computer memory amongst a plurality of computing devices; each computing device including a computer processor and a local memory controller, the local memory controller including: a processor interface, a local memory interface, and a local interconnect interface; each remote memory controller including: a remote memory interface and a remote interconnect interface, wherein the remote memory controller is operatively coupled to the data communications interconnect via the remote interconnect interface such that the remote memory controller is coupled for data communications with the local memory controller over the data communications interconnect. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130198317 | SECURELY AND RELIABLY STORING DATA IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins by ingesting distributed storage (DS) units of a set of DS units storing respective portions of data. The method continues with each of the ingesting DS units generating first respective partial redundancy data and second respective partial redundancy data, sending the first respective partial redundancy data to a first redundancy DS unit of the set of DS units, and sending the second respective partial redundancy data to a second redundancy DS unit. The method continues with the first redundancy DS unit generating first respective redundancy data based on the first respective partial redundancy data of each of the ingesting DS units and storing the first respective redundancy data. The method continues with the second redundancy DS unit generating second respective redundancy data based on the second respective partial redundancy data of each of the ingesting DS units and storing the second respective redundancy data. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130254326 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CLOUD STORAGE SPACES, METHOD AND TANGIBLE EMBODIED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - The present invention discloses an electronic device, a cloud storage system, a method thereof and a tangible embodied computer readable medium. The cloud storage system comprises at least one server and an electronic device. The at least one server provides a plurality of cloud storage spaces for accessing data. The electronic device comprises a storage management interface and is connected to each of the servers via Internet in order to access the cloud storage space. Wherein, the cloud storage spaces are integrated as a virtual storage space by the electronic device for a user to access data therefrom. The user can concurrently access the cloud storage spaces through the storage management interface of the electronic device, or access one of the cloud storage spaces by multi-thread or multi-process so as to raise the access speed. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130275545 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE AND COMPUTING OF INTERIM DATA - A method begins by a set of distributed storage and task (DST) execution units receiving a set of partial tasks and data, where a partial task of the set of partial tasks includes a common task and a unique partial sub-task. The method continues with the set of DST execution units executing the common task on the data to produce a set of preliminary partial results. The method continues with a first DST execution unit of the set of DST execution units generating first interim data based on the at least some of the set of preliminary partial results. The method continues with the first DST execution unit executing a first unique partial sub-task on at least one of a first portion of the data and the first interim data to produce a first partial result. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130318196 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD FOR USING STORAGE AREA BASED ON SECONDARY STORAGE AS CACHE AREA - In general, a DRAM is used as a cache memory, and when attempting to expand the capacity of the cache memory to increase the hit ratio, the DRAM is required to be physically augmented, which is not a simple task. Consequently, a storage system uses a page, which conforms to a capacity virtualization function (for example, a page allocatable to a logical volume in accordance with Thin Provisioning), as a cache area. This makes it possible to dynamically increase and decrease the cache capacity. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140025773 | DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION - A dispersed storage unit within a dispersed storage network is configured with registry information including a slice name assignment indicating a range of slice names assigned to a vault associated with at least one user of the dispersed storage network. The slice names further corresponding to a plurality of potential data slices to be subsequently created and received for a pillar of the vault. The dispersed storage unit allocates a portion of physical memory therein to store the potential data slices based on the slice name assignment. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140108587 | DYNAMIC SEARCH PARTITIONING - A system can monitor data usage, including an amount of searchable data used and/or a rate at which the searchable data is manipulated, on a storage allocation in a networked environment. The storage allocation can have a quantity/number of partitions, including at least one partition, configured to store the searchable data. The system can detect that the data usage is beyond a specified threshold and then based at least in part on factors such as network traffic. CPU usage, and/or data usage, the system can modify the storage allocation to increase or decrease a size of the partition and/or the quantity of partitions. Network traffic for the storage allocation can be directed away from the portion of the storage allocation being modified. When modifying the storage allocation is complete, the network traffic can be directed to the modified portion of the storage allocation. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140143372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A MEMORY-BASED INTERCONNECT BETWEEN MULTIPLE PARTITIONS - The shared memory interconnect system provides an improved method for efficiently and dynamically sharing resources between two or more guest partitions. The system also provides a method to amend the parameters of the shared resources without resetting all guest partitions. In various embodiments, a XML file is used to dynamically define the parameters of shared resources. In one such embodiment using a XML or equivalent file, the interconnect system driver will establish a mailbox shared by each guest partition. The mailbox provides messaging queues and related structures between the guest partitions. In various embodiments, the interconnect system driver may use macros to locate each memory structure. The shared memory interconnect system allows a virtualization system to establish the parameters of shared resources during runtime. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140195636 | Cloud Based Data Migration and Replication - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for data replication. The mechanism divides a set of data to be replicated into a plurality of slices. Each slice of the plurality of slices is to be copied from a primary site to a master secondary site within a plurality of secondary sites. The plurality of secondary sites comprises the master secondary site and at least one subsidiary peer site. The mechanism copies the plurality of slices from the primary site to the plurality of secondary sites such that the master secondary site stores a first slice of the set of data and each of the at least one subsidiary peer site stores a corresponding slice of the set of data. Responsive to completion of copying the plurality of slices to the plurality of secondary sites, for each of the at least one subsidiary peer site, the mechanism initiates copying of the corresponding slice of the set of data to the master secondary site. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140201313 | Utilizing Removable Virtual Volumes For Sharing Data On A Storage Area Network - The present disclosure provides data sharing through virtual removable volumes. A virtual volume of a SAN (storage area network) is presented to clients as a virtual removable volume. A controlling application controls access of clients connected to the SAN to the virtual removable volume. The controlling application allows only one client at a time to access the virtual removable volume. The controlling application allows a first client to mount the virtual removable volume as a removable volume. The controlling application then causes the first client to unmount the virtual removable volume and allows a second client to mount the virtual removable volume as a removable volume. In this way, the first client and second client are able to share data via the virtual removable volume without causing corruption of data and without requiring a shared file system or physical transfer of removable media. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140351366 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - An information processing system includes a first storage unit configured to store first divided data indicating divided time-series data, a second storage unit configured to store second divided data indicating divided time-series data divided at a time that is different from a time at which the first divided data is divided, and an processor that executes a procedure including, when a reproduction time is designated for the time-series data, reading and outputting divided data divided at a time just before the reproduction time from among the first divided data and the second divided data stored in the first storage unit and the second storage unit. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150089015 | HYBRID FIBRE CHANNEL STORAGE WITH END-TO-END STORAGE PROVISIONING AND EXTERNAL CONNECTIVITY IN A STORAGE AREA NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method for hybrid Fibre Channel (FC) storage with end-to-end storage provisioning and external connectivity in a storage area network (SAN) environment is provided and includes partitioning a SAN into an internal virtual storage area network (VSAN) for connectivity to an internal storage element located in a first portion of the SAN implemented in a unified computing system (UCS), where a second portion of the SAN is external to the UCS, partitioning the SAN into an external VSAN for connectivity to an external storage element located in the second portion of the SAN, and facilitating communication with the internal storage element over the internal VSAN and with the external storage element over the external VSAN. In one embodiment, border ports on a FI in FC switching mode are configured as N-ports for the external VSAN, and the external storage element is attached to the UCS through an N-port. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150127768 | RAPID CLOUD-BASED IMAGE CENTRALIZATION - A system for a mass centralization approach to full image cloning of multiple computing devices is provided. The system includes a server, and a computing device that includes a disk for data storage, wherein the disk includes a plurality of blocks within a plurality of regions. The system also includes a processor programmed to map each file stored on the disk to at least one of the plurality of blocks, for one or more of the plurality of regions of the disk, determine that a number of files appearing in sequential blocks exceeds a predefined threshold number of files, perform a continuous scan of the one or more of the plurality of regions of the disk occupied by the number of files appearing in sequential blocks exceeding the predefined threshold number of files, and send a copy of the files scanned from the one or more plurality of regions of the disk to the server. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150319105 | Method and Apparatus for Allocating Client Resources to Multiple Applications - A quota management system for Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) in which the storage space available on connected storage devices is shared between multiple content providers or multiple software programs. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150373117 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING USE OF AN IN-MEMORY DATA GRID WITH A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports use of an in-memory data grid or other distributed memory environment, for example Oracle Coherence. A partition provides a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of an application server domain. An application can be deployed to a particular partition, or otherwise associated with a particular domain partition name. The domain partition name can be used by the data grid to enable a separation of data between different partitions or between tenants associated with those partitions. In some embodiments, one or more data grid services, for example caches and clustered services, can be shared across multiple partitions. Alternatively, the data grid can provide read-shared/write-specific access to data grid services, in which multiple partitions can share an initial set of data, but their subsequent modifications to that data are then isolated from each other. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373138 | Dynamic Caching During Travel - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for modifying a cache value based on an upcoming reduction in connection. A determination be made that a user device is in a travel mode and intended travel data may be received accordingly. Data throughput information corresponding to the intended travel data may be received. A determination that there is an upcoming reduction in connection may be made based on the data throughput information. A cache value (e.g., amount of data received, provided, or cached) may be modified based on the upcoming reduction in connection. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160026501 | MANAGING PROVISIONING OF STORAGE RESOURCES - A method is used in managing provisioning of storage resources. An access is provided to a provisioning decision making service configured to derive a storage provisioning decision based on information provided to the provisioning decision making service. Provisioning of storage resources is enabled on a storage system over a communication medium by using the provisioning decision making service. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160087880 | ROUTING NETWORK TRAFFIC BASED ON SOCIAL INFORMATION - A technology for routing traffic from similar users to a same server cluster to improve data center efficiency is disclosed. When a traffic routing server receives a request from a user, the traffic routing server determines an identifier of a partition to which the user is assigned. The user and many other users with whom the user shares a social attribute are co-located in the same partition. The traffic routing server then computes a hash of the identifier using a hash function and locates a server cluster on a consistent hash ring using the computed hash. The traffic routing server then sends the request from the user to that server cluster. By consistently sending requests from users assigned to the same partition to the same server cluster, the technology improves cache hit rates and reduces data duplication across the server clusters, which in turn improves datacenter efficiency. | 03-24-2016 |
