34th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110208831 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING USER DATA AND PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for aggregating user data and providing recommendations for digital content or in conjunction with a social network is disclosed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208832 | SUBSCRIPTION BASED CONTENT DELIVERY FOR A DIGITAL SIGNAGE NETWORK - A digital signage network employs a common data model and a subscription system to disseminate data gathered from a plurality of data sources to a number of displays. The network nodes interact with each other as content sources, content consumers, or both, with some systems acting as consumers to upstream sources and acting as sources to downstream consumers. The presentation of the data on a digital signage display allows for real-time binding of live data to provide a rich display effect. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208833 | System and Methods For Accelerated Data Storage And Retrieval - Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless data compression and decompression. A data storage accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data compression encoders that are configured to compress data. The compressed data is subsequently stored in a target memory or other storage device whose input data storage bandwidth is lower than the original input data stream bandwidth. Similarly, a data retrieval accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data decompression decoders that are configured to decompress data at a rate equivalent to or faster than the input data stream from the target memory or storage device. The decompressed data is then output at rate data that is greater than the output rate from the target memory or data storage device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208834 | ONBOARD INFORMATION SYSTEM - An onboard information system has multiple onboard apparatuses and an external communication unit | 2011-08-25 |
20110208835 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING MULTIMEDIA DATA - A system, method and apparatus for distributing a multimedia data from a server are provided. Tag filter data is stored at the server. The multimedia data and at least one tag are received at the server from a computing device. The multimedia data is filtered by comparing the at least one tag with the tag filter data. The multimedia data is transmitted from the server to at least one multimedia renderer associated with at least one of the tag and the computing device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208836 | Document Sharing Using a Third-Party Document Delivery Service - A virtual printer which includes a document transfer function can be activated within an application program using the standard operating system print mechanism. When the user selects the virtual printer, the software performs the steps of converting the document to a standard display file, requesting a document delivery from a database server, receiving a unique identifier and a name of a file server, uploading the standard display file corresponding to the document, to the named file server, using the unique identifier as the storage identifier, and displaying, in an outbox, an indication that the document was sent. At a remote site, a Document Delivery Service is configured to perform the steps of accepting document delivery requests, initiating such requests, responding with file transfer instructions (including a unique identifier), receiving the uploaded file, storing the file, accepting polling inquiries received from potential document recipients, responding with a list of available documents addressed to each potential recipient, and enabling the recipient computer to download the standard display file. To ensure confidentiality and avoid tampering or forgery, all communication and data transfers between the client computers and the managed file transfer service carried out over secure network connections. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE - Example embodiments of the present disclosure concern a system and method for selectively intercepting communications in a cloud computing environment by receiving communications from one or more thin-client terminal systems connected via a local area network, determining one or more recipients of each received communication, and based on a determination that the one or more recipients of a communication include only thin-client terminal systems connected via the local area network, intercepting the communication and preventing the communication from being transmitted to a central server connected to the local area network via a wide area network, storing the communication, and forwarding the communication to the one or more recipients connected to the local area network. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208838 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO PRIVATE NETWORKS WITH CLIENT REDIRECTION - Improved approaches for providing secure access to resources maintained on private networks are disclosed. The secure access can be provided through a public network using client software of client-server software and/or with file system software. Multiple remote users are able to gain restricted and controlled access to at least portions of a private network through a common access point, such as an intermediate server of the remote network. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208839 | STORAGE AND SERVICE PROVISIONING FOR VIRTUALIZED AND GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED DATA CENTERS - Geographically dispersed data centers each include servers and storage systems and are in communication with each other. An application is installed on a guest operating system on a virtual machine set up on a server at a first data center. The application accesses a logical unit on a storage system at the first data center. When migration of the application is initiated, the process determines whether any of the data centers has server resources and storage resources required to receive migration of the application. A destination data center is selected from candidate data centers meeting requirements for migration of the application. The application and guest operating system are migrated from the first data center to a second virtual machine set up on a second server at the destination data center. If a replica of the LU is not already present at the destination data center, the LU is also replicated. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208840 | Cookie alert - A portable compatible browser with cookie alert and, allowing a user to take the browser display settings to another PC, or PC to PC without altering the browser settings setup from the first PC when moving to a second PC. And gives the user the capability to set the amount of cookies that can tag or logon to the user browser. Cookies that are logon or tag on to the user browser, automatically displaying on the user monitor or screen in or on a dropdown box, tag, cookie jar and or container giving the user the option to eat or burp the cookie that is display. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208841 | INCREMENTALLY MANAGING DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION DATA - A configuration management system provides a partitioned data model for collecting and representing configuration information from a diverse set of sources to allow easier modeling of very large, highly redundant sets of enterprise configuration information. The system partitions large configuration schema into logical subcomponents that can be combined, shared, and reused. The system also partitions instantiated data models into logical sub-models that can be combined, shared, reused, and incrementally updated. Each product team can provide its own configuration schema, which allows the domain experts in a particular field to provide reusable models for their products. These models may include sub-models that allow reuse of selected portions of the configuration schema. When the system stores data related to each portion of the model, it stores the data in a partitioned manner that makes incremental updates of each component of the model more straightforward and less resource intensive. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208842 | Identification of Relay Nodes in a Communication Network - A relay node identified by a unique relay node identifier relays communications between a donor base station and one or more user terminals. The donor base station acquires the relay node identifier during a relay node attach procedure from where the relay node or another node in the core network (e.g., mobile management entity). The donor base station may use the relay node identifier to retrieve configuration information for the relay node. The configuration information may be used to configure the relay node, to perform radio resource management functions, and/or to monitor the performance of the relay node. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208843 | Method and Arrangement for Improved Configuration of a Network Device - In a method in an intermediate gateway device enabling improved configuration of a device in an IP system, said device being associated with a first network for utilization of a resource associated with a second network, where said two networks are in communication via said intermediate gateway device, performing the steps of receiving (S | 2011-08-25 |
20110208844 | CLUSTER SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXPANDING CLUSTER SYSTEM - A method for expanding a cluster system is provided. The cluster system includes at least one Cluster Central Chassis (CCC), and a newly-added Cluster Line-card Chassis (CLC) connected with the CCC to form the cluster system. The method includes the following steps. A control plane is established. An equipment management right is switched to the CCC, so that the CCC manages the newly-added CLC. Meanwhile, a cluster line-card device, a cluster central exchange device, and a cluster system are further provided. In implementation, smooth expansion can be achieved without interrupting running equipment services in the CLC current network and without interrupting data services. Moreover, during the expansion process, hardware equipment needs not to be replaced, thus investment of users on the equipment is reduced. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208845 | USE OF IPv6 IN ACCESS NETWORKS - An apparatus may include a port to receive a ranging request from a cable modem and a processor in communication with the port. The processor may assign a service identifier to the cable modem, match the service identifier with a link layer address of the cable modem, receive a router advertisement and comparing the source link layer address from the router advertisement to the link layer address of the cable modem, and determine if the link layer address of the cable modem is the same as the source link layer address. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208846 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND TERMINAL APPARATUSES USING THE COMMUNICATION METHOD IN AN AD-HOC NETWORK - A control unit assigns an IP address to a new terminal apparatus which has approved of the participation. When a server, to which an IP address is assignable, is contained in the ad-hoc network, the control unit instructs the new terminal apparatus to access the server. When the server, to which an IP address is assignable, is not contained in the ad-hoc network and when the new terminal apparatus is capable of assigning an IP address on its own, the control unit instructs the new terminal apparatus to assign an IP address. When the server, to which an IP address is assignable, is not contained in the ad-hoc network and when the new terminal apparatus is not capable of assigning an IP address on its own, the control unit assigns an IP address to the new terminal apparatus. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208847 | ADDRESS REGISTRATION METHOD, ADDRESS REGISTRATION SYSTEM, MOBILE DEVICE AND MOBILE MANAGEMENT DEVICE - Disclosed is a technique in which, when respective addresses of multiple interfaces of a mobile node are registered with a mobile management device, a delay in transmission of packets destined to addresses other than the source address of a bulk registration message is prevented. According to the technique, an MN | 2011-08-25 |
20110208848 | NETWORK SYSTEM OF WEB SERVICES BASED ON SEMANTICS AND RELATIONSHIPS - The invention has disclosed a network system of web services based on semantics and relationship. The Service Network is used in automatic discovery and (semi-)automatic composition. The service to be processed of Service Network derives from registration service and extraction service of network. Submission service extracts information and sends it to Service Network according to service registry query. Extraction service obtains the service description file with crawler and register to Service Network via interface of service registry; and composition service is automatically done according to custom's function description, the complex service is sent to Service Network. The invention is more convenient for announcement of Web services, service discovery and (semi-) automatic composition based on semantics. It can extend and combine various service semantic description languages; and construct services ecosystem with available Web services, and improve operation of automatic service composition, searching and maintenance with the help of relationship among services. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURITY MAINTENANCE IN A NETWORK - A system and method for monitoring a network and detecting network vulnerabilities is provided. A communication associated with one or more programs is issued to one or more devices in a network and the response from the devices is detected and analyzed. Based on the analysis, a device response is identified as a threat response if it represents at least an alert, an unexpected response or a response time-out indicating that the device did not response to the communication. The vulnerability of the network is determined based on the threat responses of the devices. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208850 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF WEB PRIVACY PROTECTION - A disclosed method for implementing anti-tracking measures for a web browser includes refreshing anti-tracking data structure responsive to satisfying at least one of a set of anti-tracking refresh criteria. The anti-tracking data structure may include opt-out cookie data indicative of a set of opt-out cookies, uniform resource locator (URL) anti-tracking data indicative of a set of URLs associated with URL tracking, and Referer header field anti-tracking data indicative of a set of URLs susceptible to Referer header field tracking. Responsive to a web browser of a user device generating a request for a third-party web page specified by a browser URL, at least a portion of the browser URL is compared against the anti-tracking data structure. If a match in the URL anti-tracking data or the Referer header field anti-tracking data is detected, the browser URL may be modified. The refreshing of anti-tracking data may include pulling a current anti-tracking data structure from an anti-tracking server. Alternatively, the current anti-tracking data structure may be pushed from the anti-tracking server. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA STORAGE, SUCH AS DISCOVERY AND MARKING OWNERSHIP OF NETWORK STORAGE DEVICES - A system and method for discovery and marking ownership of network storage devices discovers, marks ownership and auto-attaches persistent network storage devices using the AoE or other network storage/protocols by storing encoded data in a configuration string or other settable persistent memory of these devices. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208852 | Regionally-Tiered Internet Banner Delivery and Platform for Transaction Fulfillment of E-Commerce - Regionally-tiered Internet banner delivery may be provided. A banner presentation portion configured to present banners may be provided for presentation to a user via a screen of a client computing platform. Banners associated with sponsors may be received. Individual ones banners may be configured to present media content. Two or more tiers may be defined, which include a first tier and a second tier. Individual ones of the tiers may correspond to different overlapped and/or non-overlapped geographical areas. The first tier may correspond to a larger geographical area than the second tier. A given banner may be associated with a given tier based on a desired geographical area to which the given banner is directed. Individual ones of the banners may be provided, based on a location of the user, for presentation to the user via the presentation portion of the screen of the client computing device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208853 | POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD, SERVERS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS THEREFOR - A policy and charging control method includes creating by a policy and charging rules function (PCRF), first policy and charging control (PCC) rules at establishment of a user plane session associated with the UE. The first PCC rules are installed at a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF) and the service is initiated in accordance with these rules. During the lifetime of the user plane session, a quality-of-service (QoS) change request is transmitted by the UE upon activation of a user interface command. The PCRF creates second PCC rules based on the request, and installs them at the PCEF by replacing the first PCC rules by the second PCC rules. The service is continued in accordance with the second PCC rules. PCRF and PCEF servers as well as computer programs are also defined. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208854 | DYNAMIC TRAFFIC CONTROL USING FEEDBACK LOOP - A feedback loop is created between a server and clients that provides the clients with health information of the server to assist in client-server traffic control. Health information is calculated for the server that measures a current health of the server. The health information is automatically provided to a client by the server in response to a request made by the client. The clients can utilize the received health information to determine when to request resources from the server. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208855 | Parameterized Computer Monitoring System - A computer monitoring system uses a set of parameterized models to gather information about monitored devices. The models include scripts for gathering information, as well as type validation and data validation functions. The parameters within the model are used to generate user interface prompts and to populate discovery scripts as well as data validation scripts. In some cases, the models may include localization settings that may customize the user interface and validation output for different languages. A processing engine may generate a user interface from the parameters defined in the models, customize the scripts from the user input, and cause the scripts to be executed. The data gathered by the scripts may be analyzed using type validation and data validation. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208856 | Method for Intermediating Network Operators and Developers - A method for intermediating a plurality of network operators and one or more developers is provided. The method includes the steps of: obtaining, by an obtaining unit, a requirement about a computer program required by each network operator; integrating, by an integration unit, mutually-related requirements among the obtained requirements into one requirement; generating, by a generation unit, information about the necessity for development of a computer program implementing the integrated requirement; and presenting, by a presentation unit, the one or more developers with the integrated requirement and the information about the necessity. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208857 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR GATHERING USAGE STATISTICS - The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. The phone and messaging feature enables an administrator to access information regarding data plan and usage statistics of devices. This allows organizations to optimize data plans based on messaging, e-mail, and other data plan statistics. Further, the present disclosure allows access to network connectivity details of devices and logs of emails, text messages, and the like. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208858 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MONITORING DATA ACTIVITY UTILIZING A SHARED DATA STORE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store, These mechanisms and methods for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store can enable enhanced data monitoring, more efficient data storage, improved system resource utilization, etc. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208859 | Method for Lawfully Intercepting Communication IP Packets Exchanged Between Terminals - A method for lawfully intercepting communication IP packets exchanged between terminals is provided. The method involves assigning an IP address associated with a telecommunication service provider to, for example, a sending terminal for use as its IP address in communications with a receiving terminal, the telecommunication service provider providing SIP proxy services for establishing communication between the sending and receiving terminals. The communication IP packets are intercepted in such a way that the terminals are unaware of the interception. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208860 | NETWORK RESOURCE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208861 | OBJECT CLASSIFICATION IN A CAPTURE SYSTEM - Objects can be extracted from data flows captured by a capture device. Each captured object can then be classified according to content. In one embodiment, the present invention includes determining whether a captured object is binary or textual in nature, and classifying the captured object as one of a plurality of textual content types based tokens found in the captured object if the captured object is determined to be textual in nature. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208862 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROFILING DATA TRAFFIC IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - A method of profiling communication traffic of users in a data network, comprising: monitoring communication traffic originated by a user of a communication terminal; and assigning to the user of the communication terminal a unique and anonymous user traffic identifier, wherein the user traffic identifier is related to a user address assigned to the communication terminal in the data network. Also, the user traffic identifier is adapted to be included in the communication traffic with respect to that user. The method further includes communicating the unique and anonymous user traffic identifier to the user terminal and having the user communication terminal include the user traffic identifier in the user traffic, upon receipt of communication traffic including the user traffic identifier, obtaining a descriptor of the received communication traffic useful to describe the detected traffic and at least temporarily storing the obtained descriptor; and building an anonymous user profile related to the user's communication activities based on the stored descriptors. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208863 | Remote Network Access via a Visited Network - Remote access for a terminal to a first network via a second network is managed; the first network being linked to the second network via a network apparatus. At the level of the network apparatus, there is received, from the terminal via the second network, a request for remote access to the first network indicating access information comprising a first parameter corresponding to a physical address of the terminal and a second parameter corresponding to a secret key of the gateway. The network apparatus thereafter decides whether the terminal is authorized to remotely access the first network on the basis of said access information. This network apparatus subsequently emits, bound for the terminal via the second network, a message indicating whether the terminal is authorized to remotely access the first network. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208864 | SYSTEM FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND PROCESSING CONTROL OF NETWORK RESOURCE DATA BASED ON COMPARING RESPECTIVE NETWORK TERMINAL AND NETWORK RESOURCE LOCATION INFORMATION - A method and corresponding system for providing access to network resources, the system comprising: a resource registry including resource records associated with each of the network resources, at least one of the resource records identifies a physical location of the associated network resource; and an administration server for responding to a query containing criteria wherein at least one of the criteria is geographical coordinates, the administration server is configured to access the resource registry to obtain a list of one or more nearest network resources to the geographical coordinates based on the respective physical location of the network resources, and to transmit the list of nearest network resources in response to the query. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A REMOTE RESOURCE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure recites a system and method for updating a resource to an electronic device. The system comprises: a resource providing information for the device; a server to maintain the resource; a communication link providing the device with access to the resource; a data transmission module for extracting and transmitting access information about the resource to the device; and a data processing module for processing the received information at the device. In the device, a GUI provides information on a topic retrieved from local storage on the device and additional information about the resource is incorporated into the GUI for that topic. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208866 | ADVANCED NETWORK CHARACTERIZATION - Some embodiments include a method for determining whether to establish a connection between a computer and a network. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving first network information from a network; determining a first trust level for the network by matching the network information to provisioning information, wherein the provisioning information indicates the first trust level and an authentication method of the network; verifying that network supports the authentication method, wherein the verifying includes exchanging information with the network; after verifying that the network supports the authentication method, establishing a connection to the network, wherein the connection provides access to an Internet. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208867 | Performing Message Payload Processing Functions In A Network Element On Behalf Of An Application - A method is disclosed for performing message payload processing functions in a network element on behalf of an application. According to one aspect, a network element intercepts data packets comprising network layer or transport layer headers having an address of a destination which destination differs from the network element. The network element determines whether information contained in layer | 2011-08-25 |
20110208868 | PROACTIVE PRE-PROVISIONING FOR A CONTENT SHARING SESSION - An apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller associated with the communication interface where the controller is further configured to determine an affinity between a first device and at least one other device and create, based at least in part upon the determined affinity, one or more pre-provision packages. These pre-provision packages include data likely to be shared in the event that a content sharing session is ultimately entered into. The one or more pre-provision packages are then provided for storage upon at least one of the first device and the at least one other device. Then, when a request from the first device to engage in a content sharing session with the at least one other device is received, access to the one or more pre-provision packages is provided to at least one of the first device and the at least one other device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208869 | HTTP PUSH TO SIMULATE SERVER-INITIATED SESSIONS - A mobile device apparatus uses an HyperText Transfer protocol (HTTP) push operation to simulate server-initiated sessions. The illustrative mobile device apparatus comprises a push server logic operable in a push server that sends a message to a mobile device over a network. The push server logic is configured to receive a GET command from a mobile device. The GET command includes a mobile device identifier parameter and a timeout parameter designating a maximum time interval for the push server to reply with a message. The push server logic holds a GET command session until expiration of a timeout designated by the timeout parameter in a condition that no message is targeted to the mobile device. The push server logic terminates the GET command session by sending a message immediately in a condition that the message is targeted to the mobile device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208870 | Policy Service System Architecture for Sessions Created Using STUN - Described herein are embodiments for setting, managing, and monitoring connection policies for a plurality of network paths from a first endpoint to a second endpoint. In embodiments, a set of candidate addresses from a first endpoint and a set of candidate addresses from a second endpoint are received. Each candidate address of the first endpoint is paired with each candidate address of the second endpoint to create a plurality of candidate address pairs. Each candidate address pair has an associated network path. The network path is the route by which data flows to and from the various endpoints. Once all network paths between each candidate address pair have been determined, a connection policy is set for each network address pair and the associated network path. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208871 | QUEUING BASED ON PACKET CLASSIFICATION - A system includes a host and a network controller coupled to the host by a bus. The system includes logic to classify Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) receive packets based on the network source, network destination, port source, and port destination of the respective receive packets; and cause queuing of the receive packets in a one of multiple receive queues based on the classifying such that receive packets having the same network source, network destination, port source, and port destination are to be queued to the same one of the multiple queues for processing. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208872 | DYNAMIC PARTITIONING OF DATA FOR DATA-PARALLEL APPLICATIONS - Dynamic data partitioning is disclosed for use with a multiple node processing system that consumes items from a data stream of any length and independent of whether the length is undeclared. Dynamic data partitioning takes items from the data stream when a thread is idle and assigns the taken items to an idle thread, and it varies the size of data chunks taken from the stream and assigned to a thread to efficiently distribute work loads among the nodes. In one example, data chunk sizes taken from the beginning of the data stream are relatively smaller than data chunk sizes taken towards the middle or end of the data stream. Dynamic data partitioning employs a growth function where chunks have a size related to single aligned cache lines and efficiently increases the size of the data chunks to occasionally double the amount of data assigned to concurrent threads. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208873 | ARCHITECTURE-AWARE ALLOCATION OF NETWORK BUFFERS - A computer readable medium comprising software instructions for: obtaining an allocation policy by a MAC layer executing on a host; receiving, a request for a transmit kernel buffer (TxKB) by a sending application executing on at least one processor of the host; obtaining a location of a plurality of available TxKBs on the host; obtaining a location of at least one available network interface on the host; obtaining a location of the sending application; allocating one of the plurality of available TxKBs to obtain an allocated TxKB, wherein the one of the plurality of available TxKBs is selected according to the allocation policy using the location of the plurality of available TxKB, the location of the at least one available network interface, and the location of the sending application, to obtain an allocated TxKB; and providing, to the sending application, the location of the allocated TxKB. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208874 | PACKET AGGREGATION - A system includes logic to store multiple descriptors, each of the multiple descriptors to be associated with a different set of multiple Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) packets received by the network controller, each of the multiple descriptors including a count of the number of packets in the set of multiple packets associated with a respective descriptor. For each of the respective receive packets, the system determines a one of the multiple descriptors based on the network source address, network destination address, source port, and destination port of the respective packet; includes the respective packet in the set of multiple packets associated with the determine one of the multiple descriptors; and updates the one of the multiple descriptors by incrementing the count of the number of packets in the set of multiple packets; and provides data from within the packets to the host. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208875 | Reducing energy consumption of servers - A load balancer, comprising a network interface, a power conservation unit, and a routing module configured to route client requests received through the network interface to a plurality of servers. The power conservation unit is characterized by having a learning mode and a routing mode. In the learning mode one or more operation parameters of the servers are determined for a plurality of different external conditions and for a plurality of different values of one or more operation parameters of the routing module, and to generate a correlation table between the operation parameters of the routing module and the external conditions. In the routing mode the power conservation unit adjusts the operation parameters of the routing module responsive to the external conditions, using the correlation table. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208876 | REQUEST ROUTING BASED ON CLASS - A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the client computing device with a cluster of other client computing devices. Based on routing information for the cluster, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process can further include monitoring performance data associated with the delivery of the requested resource and updating the routing information for the cluster based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from client computing devices in the cluster. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208877 | HANDOVER METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL AND HOME AGENT USED IN THE METHOD - A technology is disclosed that provides a handover method and the like capable of improving communication efficiency by reducing tunnel overhead between a mobile node and a home agent. The technology includes: a step of transmitting, by a mobile node (UE) | 2011-08-25 |
20110208878 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided a semiconductor device having a reduced number of external terminals allocated for address input to receive access from outside, while realizing a high-speed response to an access from outside. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208879 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and recording medium - An information processing apparatus is disclosed that is connected to a device and generates data processable by the device based on device information about the device. The information processing apparatus includes a processing content setting unit that specifies, based on the device information, processing content to be executed by the device; a command retrieving unit that, if the processing content specified by the processing content setting unit contains unknown information, retrieves a command corresponding to the unknown information from the device information; and a data generating unit that generates, based on the command retrieved by the command retrieving unit and the processing content, data processable by the device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208880 | SINGLE-HOST MULTI-WORKSTATION COMPUTER SYSTEM, ITS CONFIGURATION METHOD AND USB HUB - The present invention discloses a configuration method of “single-host multi-workstation” computer system, a USB Hub, a “single-host multi-workstation” computer system and a workstation card, wherein the configuration method includes the following steps: ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208881 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD,AND PROGRAM - A system is proposed, which provides a device management application that provides an appropriate display or function in accordance with an environment in which a user uses the system, which automatically fits to an environment in which a user uses the system, and which has an excellent operability. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208882 | TECHNIQUES FOR DATA STORAGE CONFIGURATION - Described are techniques for storage configuration. Defined are one or more initiator groups each including one or more initiator ports, one or more target groups each including one or more target ports, and one or more storage groups each including one or more devices. A masking view is created where the masking view includes a first of the initiator groups, a first of the target groups, and a first of the storage groups. The masking view indicates which devices of the first storage group are accessible using one or more paths. Each of the one or more paths is specified using an initiator port from the first initiator group and a target port from the first target group. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208883 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for operating a memory device includes determining whether or not a data mask operation is to be performed and setting a mask setting value to a predetermined value, receiving a data packet, and extracting mask information from the data packet for masking data in response to the mask information and the mask setting value. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208884 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - It is expected to provide a communication apparatus, relay apparatus, communication system and communication method for effectively performing a communication timing adjustment when a collision has occurred on a communication line, efficiently reducing the communication collision with reducing processing loads on each apparatus, for making each apparatus effectively perform the transmission timing adjustment, and for improving the communication efficiency. ECUs are connected to communication lines with a bus topology. A relay apparatus is connected to the communication lines, obtains a time distribution based on a number of messages transmitted to the communication lines. When the bias occurs in the transmission timings, the relay apparatus transmits an instruction message that instructs to perform the timing adjustment for messages transmitted between the ECUs. In addition, it is determined whether a message to be relayed is held. When it is determined that such a message is held, the instruction message is transmitted. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208885 | DATA BUS CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus to prevent I2C device from hanging the I2C data bus and thus stopping other devices in the system from transmitting or receiving data is presented. A logic transition detector detects a logic transition at the output data line of an I2C device and triggers a timer. The timer starts counting after it is triggered. A reset module resets the I2C interface module in the I2C device after the timer counts to a specified period of time. The timer is reset when the logic transition detector detects another logic transition at the output data line of the I2C device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208886 | COMMUNICATION SLAVE - A communication slave used in a communication network system includes a control device, a capacitive element, a voltage determining portion, and a time measuring portion. The control device controls communication with a master. The capacitive element is coupled between a high-potential side bus and a low-potential side bus. The voltage determining portion determines whether a voltage between the buses exceeds a threshold voltage. The time measuring portion measures a time from when a charge of the capacitive element through the buses is started to when the voltage determining portion determines that the voltage exceeds the threshold voltage. The control device sets an ID value for communicating with the master based on a length of the time measured by the time measuring portion. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208887 | Method and apparatus for performing arbitration - An apparatus for performing arbitration increases the fairness of arbitrations, decreases system latency, increases system throughput, and is suitable for use in more complex systems. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a generator for generating a plurality of arbitration numbers corresponding to a plurality of agents, and circuitry for selecting one of the agents to access a resource shared by the agents based on the arbitration numbers. At least one of the arbitration numbers includes a plurality of fields corresponding to a plurality of parameters. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208888 | SYSTEMS ON CHIPS HAVING INTERRUPT PROXY FUNCTIONS AND INTERRUPT PROCESSING METHODS THEREOF - Provided is a system on chip (SoC) capable of rapidly processing interrupts generated in various modules without causing an error. The SoC includes a processor configured to process a task, a plurality of modules on the SoC and operationally coupled to the processor through a system bus, and an interrupt proxy processing unit operationally coupled to the processor and the plurality of modules and configured to solely process an interrupt-related task from a first module of the plurality of modules | 2011-08-25 |
20110208889 | SATA/ESATA PORT CONFIGURATION - In one embodiment, a computer system comprises one or more processors, a circuit board assembly having at least one SATA port, a general purpose input/output port proximate the SATA port, signal generating logic to generate a signal when the general purpose input/output port is coupled to a connector, and a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors and comprising logic instructions stored in a computer readable medium which, when executed on the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to configure the SATA port according to the signal generated by the signal generating circuitry. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208890 | I/O SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INTERFACING A PUMP CONTROLLER - Embodiments of the present invention provide I/O systems, methods, and devices for interfacing pump controller(s) with control device(s) which may have different interfaces and/or signaling formats. In one embodiment, an I/O interface module comprises a processor, a memory, and at least two data communications interfaces for communicating with a pumping controller and a control device. The I/O interface module can receive discrete signals from the control device, interpret them accordingly and send the packets to the pump controller. The pump controller reads the packets and takes appropriate actions at the pump. The I/O interface module can interpret packets of data received from the pump controller and assert corresponding discrete signals to the control device. The I/O interface module is customizable and allows a variety of interfaces and control schemes to be implemented with a particular multiple stage pump without changing the hardware of the pump. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208891 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING TRANSACTIONS IN A MULTI-SPEED BUS ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided to track the state of a data forwarding component, such as a USB transaction translator, included in a downstream hub within a multi-speed bus environment. The data forwarding component accommodates communication speed shifts at the hub. The method may comprise receiving a split packet request defining a transaction, performing a lookup in an associative array using hub-specific information provided in the split packet request to determine whether an identifier is allocated to the data forwarding component, and if it is determined, based on the lookup, that an identifier is allocated to the data forwarding component, storing state information associated with the split packet request. The associative array may include multiple identifiers, each of which has an associated state field configured to track information, such as the number of packets-in-progress and bytes-in-progress to a particular data forwarding component. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING TRANSACTIONS IN A MULTI-SPEED BUS ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods schedule periodic and non-periodic transactions in a multi-speed bus environment that includes in a downstream hub a data forwarding component, such as a USB transaction translator, which accommodates communication speed shifts at the hub. The method may comprise receiving a split packet request defining a transaction with a device, tagging the request with an identifier allocated to the data forwarding component, storing the request in a transaction list associated with the identifier, initiating transfer of payload data, and updating a counter associated with the identifier to reflect an amount of payload data for which transfer was initiated. The identifier may have associated therewith a counter for tracking a number of bytes-in-progress to the data forwarding component and one or more transaction lists configured to store a plurality of split packet requests awaiting execution and state information regarding an execution status of the requests. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208893 | MULTIPLE MODULE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL CHANNEL COMPRISING UNIDIRECTIONAL SERIAL BIT CHANNELS - A computer system for multi-processing purposes. The computer system has a console comprising a first coupling site and a second coupling site. Each coupling site comprises a connector. The console is an enclosure that is capable of housing each coupling site. The system also has a plurality of computer modules, where each of the computer modules is coupled to a connector. Each of the computer modules has a processing unit, a main memory coupled to the processing unit, a graphics controller coupled to the processing unit, and a mass storage device coupled to the processing unit. Each of the computer modules is substantially similar in design to each other to provide independent processing of each of the computer modules in the computer system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208894 | PHYSICAL ALIASING FOR THREAD LEVEL SPECULATION WITH A SPECULATION BLIND CACHE - A multiprocessor system includes nodes. Each node includes a data path that includes a core, a TLB, and a first level cache implementing disambiguation. The system also includes at least one second level cache and a main memory. For thread memory access requests, the core uses an address associated with an instruction format of the core. The first level cache uses an address format related to the size of the main memory plus an offset corresponding to hardware thread meta data. The second level cache uses a physical main memory address plus software thread meta data to store the memory access request. The second level cache accesses the main memory using the physical address with neither the offset nor the thread meta data after resolving speculation. In short, this system includes mapping of a virtual address to a different physical addresses for value disambiguation for different threads. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208895 | METHODS FOR MEMORY PROGRAMMING DURING PRODUCT ASSEMBLY - A method of writing data to an electronic device during assembly comprises attaching a resident memory element to one or more contact pads of a circuit board using a solder paste; reflowing the solder paste to affix the resident memory element to the contact pads; copying data from an external memory element to the resident memory element; and thereafter combining a device component with the circuit board to at least partially complete assembly of the electronic device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208896 | DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING NUMBER OF BITS PER CELL FOR MEMORY LOCATIONS OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - Systems and methods are provided for dynamically allocating a number of bits per cell to memory locations of a non-volatile memory (“NVM”) device. In some embodiments, a host may determine whether to store data in the NVM device using SLC programming or MLC programming operations. The host may allocate an erased block as an SLC block or MLC block based on this determination regardless of whether the erased block was previously used as an SLC block, MLC block, or both. In some embodiments, to dynamically allocate a memory location as SLC or MLC, the host may provide an address vector to the NVM package, where the address vector may specify the memory location and the number of bits per cell to use for that memory location. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208897 | METHOD AND MEMORY SYSTEM USING A PRIORI PROBABILITY INFORMATION TO READ STORED DATA - A memory system comprises a non-volatile memory device that stores user data and state information regarding the user data. In a read operation of the non-volatile memory device, a memory controller calculates a priori probabilities for the user data based on the state information, calculates a posteriori probabilities based on the a priori probabilities, and performs a soft-decision operation to determine values of the user data based on the a posteriori probabilities. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208898 | STORAGE DEVICE, COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A data storage device receives an invalidity command, and in response to the invalidity command, records information identifying a first region of a main storage unit. In a first interval, the data storage device copies valid data from the first region of the main storage unit to a second region of the main storage unit based on the recorded information. In a second interval after the first interval, the data storage device invalidates the first region. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208899 | MEMORY WRITING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Memory writing system and method determining an optimum data amount per one-time data transmission to one memory writer to enable optimization of communication efficiency and write speed, include: setting the amount of data to be transmitted per one-time transmission from a writer controller to different values for respective memory writers; transmitting data of each of the data amounts from the writer controller to a corresponding one of the memory writers; measuring, for each of the data amounts, a processing time required for the writer controller to transmit data to the corresponding memory writer and a data write time of the corresponding memory writer; obtaining, for each of the data amounts, a correlation between the processing time and the data write time based on respective measured values; setting an optimum data amount based on the correlation to satisfy a desired data write time condition; and, after the optimum data amount is set, sequentially transmitting data of the optimum data amount from the writer controller to the memory writers. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208900 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS UTILIZING NONVOLATILE MEMORY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM MAIN MEMORY - Methods and systems capable of capitalizing on fast access capabilities (low initial access latencies) of nonvolatile memory technologies for use in a host system, such as computers and other processing apparatuses. The host system has a central processing unit, processor cache, and a system main memory. The system main memory includes first and second memory slots, a volatile memory subsystem having at least one DRAM-based memory module received in the first memory slot and addressed by the central processing unit, and a nonvolatile memory subsystem having at least a first nonvolatile-based memory module in the second memory slot and addressed by the central processing unit. At least one memory controller is integrated onto the central processing unit for controlling the processor cache, the volatile memory subsystem, and the nonvolatile memory subsystem. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208901 | Memory Systems and Methods of Operating the Same - A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device, a memory controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory device and a virtual data interface layer that manages reading and/or writing of patterned data from/to the nonvolatile memory device. In a read operation, the virtual data interface layer generates patterned data that is requested to be read. Accordingly, a read speed of the memory system may be improved. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208902 | FILTERED REGISTER ARCHITECTURE TO GENERATE ACTUATOR SIGNALS - In various embodiments, apparatus and systems, as well as methods, may include an enhanced register to provide actuator signals to a memory array, the enhanced register including a first memory device including an first enable input, a first data input coupled to a register data input, and first memory device output, the first memory device output to couple to the memory array, and the enhances register to include a second memory device including a second enable input, a second data input coupled to the register data input, and a second memory device output, wherein the second memory device output provides a first output signal indicating when one or more of the actuator signals from the first memory device output are to be coupled to the register data input. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208903 | FLASH MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF IMPROVING READ PERFORMANCE - A flash memory device, related system ad method are disclosed. The memory device includes a memory cell array a page buffer receiving read data, wherein the page buffer includes a main register transferring read data to a cache register during an read operation, and a control logic block controlling operation of the page buffer during the read operation, such that initialization of the main register continuously extends beyond a time period during which read data is transferred from the main register to the cache register. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208904 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The semiconductor device includes a nonvolatile memory, having a memory array containing 1-bit twin cells, each composed of electrically rewritable first and second storage devices, the first and second storage devices holding binary data according to difference of their threshold voltages, and having different retention characteristics depending on difference of the binary data thereof; a read circuit for differentially amplifying complementary data output from the first and second storage devices of the twin cell selected for read, and judging information stored in the twin cell; and a control circuit. Two memory cells constituting a twin cell are arranged to hold different data. Therefore, even when the retention performance of one memory cell deteriorates, the difference between data held by the two memory cells can be maintained. Hence, differential amplification of such difference enables acquisition of proper stored information. Thus, retention performance of an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory cell is improved. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208905 | Non-Volatile Memory Device For Concurrent And Pipelined Memory Operations - This disclosure provides a non-volatile memory device that concurrently processes multiple page reads, erases or writes involving the same memory space. The device relies upon a crossbar and a set of page buffers that may each be dynamically assigned to each read or write request. The device also separates memory array control from IO control, such that multiple cycle state change operations can be performed while the buffers are used to transfer data into and out of the buffers along an external data bus; using this structure, the memory device can accept multiple transactions where pages can be immediately loaded into buffers and then “pipelined” either for transfer to a write data register or to an external bus as appropriate. By significantly mitigating the substantial “busy time” associated with program and erase of non-volatile memory devices, especially flash devices, this disclosure greatly expands potential application of such devices. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208906 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE WITH PLURAL MEMORY DIE AND CONTROLLER DIE - A semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory die and a controller die. The controller die is connected to an internal control bus. The controller die is configured to provide to a selected one of the memory die an internal read command responsive to an external read command. The selected memory die is configured to provide read data to the controller in response to the internal read command; wherein latency between receipt by the controller die of the external read command and receipt of the read data from the selected memory die differs for at least two of the memory die when selected as the selected memory die. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208907 | Protected Cache Architecture And Secure Programming Paradigm To Protect Applications - Embodiments of the present invention provide a secure programming paradigm, and a protected cache that enable a processor to handle secret/private information while preventing, at the hardware level, malicious applications from accessing this information by circumventing the other protection mechanisms. A protected cache may be used as a building block to enhance the security of applications trying to create, manage and protect secure data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208908 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY (HA) PROTECTION OF A RUNNING VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM) - High availability (HA) protection is provided for an executing virtual machine. A standby server provides a disk buffer that stores disk writes associated with a virtual machine executing on an active server. At a checkpoint in the HA process, the active server suspends the virtual machine; the standby server creates a checkpoint barrier at the last disk write received in the disk buffer; and the active server copies dirty memory pages to a buffer. After the completion of these steps, the active server resumes execution of the virtual machine; the buffered dirty memory pages are sent to and stored by the standby server. Then, the standby server flushes the disk writes up to the checkpoint barrier into disk storage and writes newly received disk writes into the disk buffer after the checkpoint barrier. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208909 | REDUCTION OF I/O LATENCY FOR WRITABLE COPY-ON-WRITE SNAPSHOT FUNCTION - According to one aspect of the invention, a method of controlling a storage system comprises storing data in a first volume in the storage system which has volumes including the first volume and a plurality of second volumes; prohibiting write I/O (input/output) access against the first volume after storing the data in the first volume; performing subsequent write requests received by the storage system against the second volumes in the storage system after storing the data in the first volume, each write request having a target volume which is one of the second volumes; and in response to each one write request of the write requests, determining whether the target volume of the one write request is write prohibited or not, and performing the one write request only if the target volume is not write prohibited. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208910 | Storage Control Device for Storage System Provided with Storage Device Coupled to Switch Network - A plurality of storage devices are coupled with at least two switch of a switch network that is configured by a plurality of switches that transfer a packet that complies with an IP (Internet Protocol). Moreover, a storage control device is coupled with the switch network. The storage control device builds an LU (Logical Unit) that is utilized by a host device based on at least two storage devices that are coupled with different switches. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208911 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - This invention manages a power consumption of a system including a computer and a storage in combination with a workload of a business application. More specifically, a power consumption per transaction processing count is employed as an index that an application user utilizes as a guide for adjusting a power consumption amount. Further, the invention provides means that adjusts a power consumption per workload based on a trade off between power consumption and system performance. When adjusting the power consumption, the system configuration is modified so as to increase or decrease computer resources such as a disk or a server that the application utilizes. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208912 | FULL-STRIPE-WRITE PROTOCOL FOR MAINTAINING PARITY COHERENCY IN A WRITE-BACK DISTRIBUTED REDUNDANCY DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - Data storage reliability is maintained in a write-back distributed data storage system including multiple nodes. Information is stored as a stripe including a collection of a data strips and associated parity strips, the stripe distributed across data and parity nodes. Each data node maintains the data strip holding a first copy of data, and each parity node maintains a parity strip holding a parity for the collection of data strips. A driver node initiates a full-stripe-write parity update protocol for maintaining parity coherency in conjunction with other nodes, to keep the relevant parity strips coherent. Parity is determined directly by computing parity strips for all data strips of a stripe. Any node may function as a driver node. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208913 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a storage device including: a communication execution unit configured to be capable of controlling an operation state between a communication-enabled state in which data communication is possible and a pause state in which data communication is impossible; a buffer configured to store data transmitted and received by the communication execution unit; a memory configured to be capable of storing data; a memory controller configured to carry out data input and output between the memory and the buffer; and a communication controller configured to make the communication execution unit operate if data communication is carried out, and make the communication execution unit take a pause if data communication is not carried out. The communication controller switches the operation state of the communication execution unit between the communication-enabled state and the pause state in data communication depending on a data processing state of the buffer. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208914 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF - There are provided a storage system, storage control unit and method of operating thereof. A storage system comprises a permanent storage subsystem comprising a first cache memory and a non-volatile storage medium, and a storage control unit operatively coupled to said subsystem and to a second cache memory operable to cache “dirty” data pending to be written to the permanent storage subsystem and to enable, responsive to at least one command by the control storage unit, destaging said “dirty” data or part thereof to the permanent storage subsystem. The storage control unit is operable to determine achievement of a “writing criterion”, to provide, upon achieving, at least one command to the permanent storage subsystem requiring flushing destaged data or part thereof from the first cache memory to the non-volatile storage medium, and to provide at least one command to the second cache memory requiring reclassification of the “washed” data or a respective part thereof into the “clean” data, wherein the storage control unit is further operable to configure the “writing criterion” responsive to indicating one or more predefined events during an operation of the storage system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208915 | Fused Store Exclusive/Memory Barrier Operation - In an embodiment, a processor may be configured to detect a store exclusive operation followed by a memory barrier operation in a speculative instruction stream being executed by the processor. The processor may fuse the store exclusive operation and the memory barrier operation, creating a fused operation. The fused operation may be transmitted and globally ordered, and the processor may complete both the store exclusive operation and the memory barrier operation in response to the fused operation. As the fused operation progresses through the processor and one or more other components (e.g. caches in the cache hierarchy) to the ordering point in the system, the fused operation may push previous memory operations to effect the memory barrier operation. In some embodiments, the latency for completing the store exclusive operation and the subsequent data memory barrier operation may be reduced if the store exclusive operation is successful at the ordering point. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208916 | SHARED CACHE CONTROLLER, SHARED CACHE CONTROL METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A monitoring section | 2011-08-25 |
20110208917 | DATA PROCESSING CIRCUIT WITH CACHE AND INTERFACE FOR A DETACHABLE DEVICE - A processor ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208918 | MOVE ELIMINATION AND NEXT PAGE PREFETCHER - Methods and apparatus relating to a hardware move elimination and/or next page prefetching are described. In some embodiments, a logic may provide hardware move eliminations based on stored data. In an embodiment, a next page prefetcher is disclosed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208919 | CACHING BASED ON SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACCESSES TO DATA STORAGE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for quantifying a spatial distribution of accesses to storage systems and for determining spatial locality of references to storage addresses in the storage systems, are described. In one aspect, a method includes determining a measure of spatial distribution of accesses to a data storage system based on multiple distinct groups of accesses to the data storage system, and adjusting a caching policy used for the data storage system based on the determined measure of spatial distribution. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208920 | FACILITATING SERVER RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION - A configuration of cached information stored within a cache is determined. One or more character omission rules are determined by: identifying the one or more optimizable characters based on the configuration, where the one or more optimizable characters are characters in the stored cached information that do not have an effect on an interpretation of the stored cached information by a requester computer; and determining, based on the configuration, one or more conditions under which omission of the one or more optimizable characters from the stored cached information produces a valid result in view of the configuration. One or more character omission rules are applied to the stored cached information by removing from the stored cached information the one or more optimizable characters that meet the one or more conditions. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208921 | INVERTED DEFAULT SEMANTICS FOR IN-SPECULATIVE-REGION MEMORY ACCESSES - A method for accessing memory by a first processor of a plurality of processors in a multi-processor system includes, responsive to a memory access instruction within a speculative region of a program, accessing contents of a memory location using a transactional memory access to the memory access instruction unless the memory access instruction indicates a non-transactional memory access. The method may include accessing contents of the memory location using a non-transactional memory access by the first processor according to the memory access instruction responsive to the instruction not being in the speculative region of the program. The method may include updating contents of the memory location responsive to the speculative region of the program executing successfully and the memory access instruction not being annotated to be a non-transactional memory access. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208922 | POOL OF DEVICES PROVIDING OPERATING SYSTEM REDUNDANCY - Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing operating system (O/S) redundancy in a computing system are provided. One system includes a host computing device, a plurality of memory devices, and a sub-loader coupled between the host computing device and the plurality of memory devices. Each memory device stores a respective O/S and the sub-loader is configured such that the plurality of memory devices appear transparent to the host computing device. One method includes designating, a first logical unit device as a primary logical unit device and subsequently determining that the first logical unit device is unresponsive. The designation is removed from the first logical unit device and a second logical unit device is designated as a new primary logical unit device. One computer program product includes instructions for performing the above method. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208923 | STORAGE METHOD AND SYSTEM, TERMINAL SERVICE BOARD, CONTROL BOARD AND STORAGE CHANNEL BOARD - A storage method and system, a terminal service board, a control board, and a storage channel board are provided. The system includes a terminal service board, a control board, and a storage channel board, where the terminal service board is configured to be connected with a terminal and the control board, process a request from the terminal, and send a processing result to the control board; the control board is configured to encapsulate data required to be stored onto a storage apparatus into a command according to the processing result, and submit the command to the storage channel board; the storage channel board is configured to be connected with the storage apparatus and the control board, and according to the command, store onto the storage apparatus the data required to be stored onto the storage apparatus. The control board becomes more focused on the storage processing, so that the efficiency of use for the control board is improved. Furthermore, as the influence of the interface card protocol to the control board is reduced significantly, the design of the control board is simplified. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208924 | DATA STORAGE CONTROL ON STORAGE DEVICES - An object of the present invention is to improve the usage efficiency of a storage extent in a storage system using the Allocation on Use (AOU) technique. A controller in the storage system allocates a storage extent in an actual volume to an extent in a virtual volume accessed by a host computer, detects any decrease in necessity for maintaining that allocation, and cancels the allocation of the storage extent in the actual volume to the extent in the virtual volume based on the detection result. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208925 | PCI EXPRESS ENHANCEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS - A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208926 | LOW LATENCY REQUEST DISPATCHER - A first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue optimized to reduce latency in dequeuing data items from the FIFO. In one implementation, a FIFO queue additionally includes buffers connected to the output of the FIFO queue and bypass logic. The buffers act as the final stages of the FIFO queue. The bypass logic causes input data items to bypass the FIFO and to go straight to the buffers when the buffers are able to receive data items and the FIFO queue is empty. In a second implementation, arbitration logic is coupled to the queue. The arbitration logic controls a multiplexer to output a predetermined number of data items from a number of final stages of the queue. In this second implementation, the arbitration logic gives higher priority to data items in later stages of the queue. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208927 | VIRTUAL MEMORY - This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling virtual memory for network-enabled computing devices. These techniques and apparatuses may enable network-enabled computing devices to avoid, or reduce the chances of, having little or no available memory. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208928 | System and Method for Improving Performance of Data Container Backups - A method for improving performance of data container backups comprises identifying a data container on a source computer to be backed up. A snapshot image of the data container is generated, wherein the snapshot image comprises one or more partitions. Data is read simultaneously from each of the one or more partitions to a destination computer over one or more transport paths. Each of the one or more transport paths comprises one or more threads. The data read to the destination computer is backed up such that the data retains a physical block sequence of the data container. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208929 | IN-PLACE VIRTUALIZATION DURING OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION - A computing device executing an operating system installer generates a virtual disk image at a temporary location. The computing device copies data from one or more existing partitions on a storage device to the virtual disk image, wherein the one or more existing partitions include an existing operating system and associated data. The virtual disk image is stored at a temporary location. The one or more existing partitions are then replaced with a new partition on the storage device. A new operating system is installed on the new partition. The virtual disk image is moved to the new partition from the temporary location. The virtual disk image can then be loaded into a virtual machine that runs on the new operating system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208930 | Providing Shared Access to Data Storage Resources Across Cluster Computing Environment Boundaries - Providing shared access to data storage resources in a cluster computing environment, including detecting when a computer node requests access to a data storage device in a manner that excludes a computing device from accessing the data storage device, where the computer node is configured to communicate with the data storage device along a first communications channel, and where the computing device is configured to communicate with the data storage device along a second communications channel that is exclusive of the first communications channel, and responsive to the detecting, causing the data storage device to allow the computer node and the computing device to share access to the data storage device. | 2011-08-25 |