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39th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 62
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20140289389Systems And Methods For Analysis of Content Items - A content analyzer retrieves content items from one or more content sources. The content items have a corresponding date and time assigned representing when the content item was published. The content analyzer is further configured to determine a frequency count for each of a plurality of terms within the plurality of content items for a specified time period. In some embodiments, the content analyzer identifies a change in the frequency count for each of the plurality of terms relative to a respective baseline frequency count for the respective one of the plurality of terms. In some embodiments, a report representing the change in the frequency count for each of the plurality of terms is generated.2014-09-25
20140289390SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE NETWORK MONITORING - A network security device may gather a large amount of metadata pertaining to the connections being managed thereby. A refinement module may filter and/or aggregate the connection metadata. The metadata may be refined on the network security device. The refined metadata may be provided for display on a terminal. The refined metadata may include a subset of the larger connection metadata, which may reduce the overhead required to display and/or transmit monitoring information to the terminal device. The refined metadata may comprise connection groups, which may be formed based on aggregation criteria, such as connection source, destination, application, security policy, protocol, port, and/or the like. The connection groups may be ranked in accordance with ranking criteria.2014-09-25
20140289391FRAMEWORK FOR FACILITATING IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTI-TENANT SAAS ARCHITECTURE - A framework for implementing multitenant architecture is provided. The framework comprises a framework services module which is configured to provide framework services that facilitate abstraction of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services and crosscutting services for a Greenfield application and a non SaaS based web application. Further the abstraction results in a SaaS based multitenant web application. The framework further comprises a runtime module configured to automatically integrate and consume the framework services and APIs to facilitate monitoring and controlling of features associated with the SaaS based multitenant web application. The framework further comprises a metadata services module configured to provide a plurality of metadata services to facilitate abstraction of storage structure of metadata associated with the framework and act as APIs for managing the metadata. The framework further comprises a role based administration module that facilitates management of the metadata through a tenant administrator and a product administrator.2014-09-25
20140289392INSTANCE MONITOR - Methods to facilitate monitoring the execution of a first instance and a second instance, such as multiple instantiations of a program, are generally described. The methods may include generating a first instance and a second instance, appending first monitoring instructions to the first instance to produce a first modified instance and appending second monitoring instructions to the second instance to produce a second modified instance. The first and second monitoring instructions may relate to monitoring an execution of the first instance and the second instance. The processor may further send the first modified instance to a first computing device and send the second modified instance to a second computing device different from the first computing device. The computing devices may provide different computational functionality and/or may split a load in processing the program.2014-09-25
20140289393NETWORK APPARATUS AND CONNECTION DETECTING METHOD THEREOF - A network apparatus and a connection detecting method thereof are disclosed. The network apparatus receives a network connection request which determines a wireless network connection between a USB network controller and a wireless network access point. The network apparatus determines a network connection frequency band of the wireless network connection according to the network connection request, and switches a data transmission mode of the USB network controller from a first USB operation mode to a second USB operation mode after determining that an operation frequency of the first USB operation mode conflicts with the network connection frequency band.2014-09-25
20140289394METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING NETWORK DATA - The invention discloses a method of collecting network data. This method is applicable to collection of data of network documents, published on a website, related respectively to M subjects, wherein M is a positive integer, the method including: configuring webpage link addresses, of network data to be collected, into queues of corresponding types according to types corresponding to the webpage link addresses of the network data to be collected, wherein the webpage link addresses of the network data to be collected are link addresses of webpages where the data of the network documents related respectively to the M subjects are located; obtaining webpage source codes corresponding to the webpage link addresses, of the network data to be collected, in the queues of the corresponding types; and extracting the data of the network documents corresponding to URLs corresponding to the webpage source codes according to the URL information and collection depth values of the URLs.2014-09-25
20140289395NETWORK COMMENT COLLECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Disclosed are a network comment collection method and system. The method comprises: obtaining a web page entry link address; determining whether a web page corresponding to the web page entry link address has N network comments, N being a positive integer; when there are N network comments, determining whether M network comments among the N network comments satisfy a collection condition, M being a positive integer less than or equal to N; when there are M network comments satisfying the collection condition, collecting the M network comments.2014-09-25
20140289396Detecting Device Presence for a Layer 3 Connection Using Layer 2 Discovery Information - Techniques for monitoring presence of a remote device at Layer 2 that allow reducing power consumption without compromising the device's availability. A device that pairs with a remote wireless device may establish a Layer 3 connection, such as an IP connection, to the remote device to provide services to a user. The Layer 3 connection may be formed over a Layer 2 connection via an access point or as a peer-to-peer wireless connection between the devices. When the Layer 3 connection is not actively used to access the remote device, the Layer 3 connection and the supporting Layer 2 connection (e.g., WI-FI, WI-FI DIRECT™ or BLUETOOTH®) may be terminated and presence of the remote device may be monitored using a Layer 2 device discovery mechanism. The Layer 2 and Layer 3 connections to the device may be reestablished when use of the remote device is desired.2014-09-25
20140289397TRANSMISSION DEVICE, CONTROL CARD, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission device includes: a calculation unit to detect abnormal traffic based on a traffic volume collected for the route and to calculate a traffic increase/decrease time and a traffic increase/decrease volume of the abnormal traffic; a normal prediction graph generation unit to generate a normal prediction graph based on the traffic volume in normal time in which the abnormal traffic is not detected; a prediction graph generation unit to generate an abnormal prediction graph based on the traffic increase/decrease time and the traffic increase/decrease volume of the abnormal traffic in detection of the abnormal traffic; an order determination unit to determine a line order that is a priority order of line allocation for the route based on the normal prediction graph or the abnormal prediction graph; and an optimization unit to determine lines that are to be allocated to the route based on the line order.2014-09-25
20140289398INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND FAILURE PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system including a plurality of information processing apparatuses, wherein each of the information processing apparatuses includes an abnormality detection unit that detects the occurrence of abnormality, a log information collection unit that collects log information of the information processing apparatus from which the abnormality is detected, an abnormal apparatus information creation unit that creates abnormal apparatus information indicating the information processing apparatus from which the abnormality is detected, prior to the collection of the log information by the log information collection unit, and an abnormal apparatus information notifying unit that notifies the abnormal apparatus information created by the abnormal apparatus information creation unit to each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, prior to the collection of the log information by the log information collection unit.2014-09-25
20140289399APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING MIGRATION COMPLETION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE - A computer detects, by a physical machine serving as a migration destination of a virtual machine of a migration target, a signal transmitted from the virtual machine of the migration target in response to a migration completion of the virtual machine of the migration target to the physical machine according to a setting by a management machine; and notifies the management machine of the migration completion of the virtual machine of the migration target in response to the detection.2014-09-25
20140289400MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING APPARATUS, MONITORING-TARGET APPARATUS, MONITORING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN MONITORING PROGRAM - A monitoring system includes a monitoring apparatus and a monitoring-target apparatus connected therewith via a network. The monitoring apparatus includes an inquirer that inquires as to whether or not the monitoring-target apparatus is capable of obtaining a status thereof. The monitoring-target apparatus includes a responder that transmits, when the monitoring-target apparatus is in a first status in which the status is obtainable, a response to the inquiry. The monitoring apparatus further includes a receiver that receives the response to the inquiry, and a requester that requests, when the receiver receives the response, the monitoring-target apparatus transmitted the received response to obtain the status of the monitoring-target apparatus. The monitoring-target apparatus further includes a communication controller that does not respond to the inquiry and the monitoring-target apparatus is in a second status in which the status is not obtainable, and that maintains the local monitoring-target apparatus in the second status.2014-09-25
20140289401SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING MEDIA FROM NETWORK TRAFFIC HAVING UNKNOWN PROTOCOLS - Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. An analysis system receives network traffic, which complies with a certain protocol. The received network traffic carries a data item, which may be of value to an analyst. In order to access the data item in question, the analysis system automatically identifies the media type of the data item, by processing the network traffic irrespective of the protocol. The analysis system identifies the media type irrespective of the protocol in order to avoid the computational complexity involved in decoding the protocol.2014-09-25
20140289402COMPUTING RESOURCE INVENTORY SYSTEM - Systems and methods of managing computing resources of a computing system are described. A computing resource list and computing resource information may be stored at a data store. The computing resource list may identify a set of computing resources of a computing system, and the computing resource information may respectively describe the computing resources. The computing resource list may be updated in response to a new computing resource being added to the computing system or in response to an existing computing resource being removed from the computing system. Evaluation tasks for the computing resources may be performed, and a resource evaluation report may be generated during performance of at least one of the evaluation reports.2014-09-25
20140289403Method and Apparatus for Learning Online State of Terminal - A method and an apparatus for learning an online state of a terminal are provided. In the embodiments of the present invention, when an online state of a terminal needs to be reported to a network side, the terminal sends a first message to a core network management entity, where the first message includes first indication information, so that the core network management entity sends the first indication information to a proxy server, and thereby the proxy server learns an online state of an application on the terminal, so as to avoid that an online state, of the application on the terminal, saved in the proxy server is incorrect.2014-09-25
20140289404CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD OF LOGICAL TOPOLOGY IN VIRTUAL NETWORK AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - (1) A configuration management in a management server is carried out such that setting patterns regarding creation of plural types of virtual resources and setting patterns regarding connection between the plural types of virtual resources are extracted from setting information of network devices configuring a virtual network by using plural types of virtualization technologies, (2) an ID required for creating a virtual resource and a connection relation between virtual resources are extracted from the extracted setting pattern, (3) an element corresponding to a virtual resource or a connection between a pair of virtual resources is created by using information including the extracted ID, and (4) the elements created from setting information of individual devices are aggregated to thereby create logical topology information representing a topology of the virtual network.2014-09-25
20140289405AUTONOMOUS PERFORMANCE PROBING - A method, device, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for automatically activating a probe configured to generate test network traffic in response to evaluating a policy that accounts for aggregated information that describes traffic that was processed by a network device. The method includes storing a policy, and evaluating the policy based at least in part on an item of received aggregated information that describes a set of packets that were processed by the network device and sent or received on a network. The probe is activated at least partially in response to evaluating the policy. The probe generates test packets to emulate one or more applications, services, or devices communicating on the network.2014-09-25
20140289406SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ACTIVE STREAMS USING A HEARTBEAT AND SECURE STOP MECHANISM - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for identifying active streaming connections associated with a particular user account. Each active streaming connection transmits heartbeat packets periodically to a server that tracks the receipt of the heartbeat packets. If, for a particular streaming connection, the server stops receiving heartbeat packets, then the server is able to infer that the streaming connection has been terminated.2014-09-25
20140289407GROUP CO-OWNERSHIP OF INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES - In one embodiment, two separate user accounts may share equal ownership of the same internet-accessible resource 2014-09-25
20140289408PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND SERVICE UTILIZATION SYSTEM - A portable information terminal apparatus includes an obtaining unit that causes an information apparatus shared by multiple users to obtain an access token that contains access right information indicating that the information apparatus has an access right to an external service utilization system, and obtains the obtained access token, and a request unit that transmits the access token obtained by the obtaining unit to the information apparatus upon requesting the external service utilization system to execute a service operation, and causes the information apparatus to perform data communication with the external service utilization system in response to a request for execution of the service operation, using the access token.2014-09-25
20140289409METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING GLOBAL NETWORK ACCESS - An access management system provides tiered access to a global communications network. A default level of restricted access to the global communications network, for example the Internet, is provided free for all users with a compatible communications device, and at least one subscription level of service is provided to users for a fee. Access to the communications network is monitored and restricted based on user content and resource privileges.2014-09-25
20140289410METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HIGH SPEED CONNECTIVITY TO A HOTEL ENVIRONMENT - One or more processors are configured to associate a first local IP address with a computer while the computer is connected to a first network access node thereby providing the computer with access to a network. The first local IP address is one of a plurality of local IP addresses used on the network. The one or more processors monitor transmissions received from the first network access node to determine when the computer requests an Internet transaction. When the computer requests an Internet transaction, a first one of the globally unique IP addresses is associated with the first local IP address thereby allowing the computer to conduct the Internet transaction. The first globally unique IP address is disassociated from the first local IP address after termination of the Internet transaction and is then available for association with any of the local IP addresses used on the network.2014-09-25
20140289411DECENTRALIZED OPERATING SYSTEM - Technology is disclosed for enabling multiple computing devices used by a user to interoperate with one another. The technology enables the user to install a given application on a distributed operating system (“DCOS”) managing the multiple computing devices as a single entity. The user can then use the given application through any of the computing devices when executing the given application through the DCOS.2014-09-25
20140289412SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING ONE OR MORE RESOURCES IN A COMPOSITE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - This technology relates to a device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for allocating one or more resources optimally in a composite cloud environment. This technology involves configuring organization and service level quota values, describing service composition, service unit, service level agreement, defining allocation model and resource allocation optimization algorithm. Based on these predefined rules the infrastructure, software and manual resources are assigned, future allocation is forecasted and resources are allocated to complete the service requests received from the users.2014-09-25
20140289413AUTOMATIC RESOURCE BALANCING FOR MULTI-DEVICE APPLICATIONS - At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method of resource balancing execution of an application involving multiple devices. The method can include: identifying an application executing on an operating system of a first computing device; identifying a resource type to facilitate the executing of the application; identifying multiple computing devices each having at least an available resource instance of the identified resource type, wherein the multiple computing devices are reachable by a communication protocol of the first computing device; and selecting a target computing device to offer up a target resource instance of the resource type to the application based at least partly on a comparable limitation of each available resource instance of the multiple computing devices.2014-09-25
20140289414API FOR RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND UTILIZATION - Various embodiments are disclosed for enabling multiple computing devices having a decentralized operating system to effectively monitor and manage resources across the multiple devices. In some embodiments, the systems are able to identify a set of local resources available for utilization by an application running on the decentralized operating system. A resource message identifying the set of local resources can be generated using a resource discovery and utilization application programming interface. This information can then be sent to a requestor (e.g., an application running on the decentralized operating system) which can create a resource utilization plan.2014-09-25
20140289415CONTINUOUS AND CONCURRENT DEVICE EXPERIENCE IN A MULTI-DEVICE ECOSYSTEM - Various embodiments generally relate to decentralized operating systems spanning multiple devices. More specifically, some embodiments relate to continuous and concurrent device experiences across the multiple devices. For example, a user may be streaming a movie through a service provided via a smart television. When the user's phone detects an incoming video call, the television can recognize that a video call is coming in and ask the user if the user wants to answer the call. If the user responds in the affirmative, the television can pause the streaming video from the service provide allowing the user to answer their phone. In some cases, the television can be used as the display screen to display the video call while the local phone resources (e.g., video camera) can be used as the recording device.2014-09-25
20140289416ATTRIBUTES OF CAPTURED OBJECTS IN A CAPTURE SYSTEM - A system and method for capturing objects and balancing systems resources in a capture system are described. An object is captured, metadata associated with the objected generated, and the object and metadata stored.2014-09-25
20140289417AUTOMATIC RESOURCE BALANCING FOR MULTI-DEVICE APPLICATIONS - At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method of resource balancing execution of an application involving multiple devices. The method can include: identifying an application executing on an operating system of a first computing device; identifying a resource type to facilitate the executing of the application; identifying multiple computing devices each having at least an available resource instance of the identified resource type, wherein the multiple computing devices are reachable by a communication protocol of the first computing device; and selecting a target computing device to offer up a target resource instance of the resource type to the application based at least partly on a comparable limitation of each available resource instance of the multiple computing devices.2014-09-25
20140289418METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PLANNING EXECUTION OF AN APPLICATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - Methods and systems related to planning an execution of an application in a cloud computing system are described herein. The method includes determining whether a workload causes an anomaly associated to the execution of an application. Upon determining that execution of the application under the workload causes an anomaly, an action, or a value of at least one parameter for execution of the application in the cloud computing system, is determined. The action, or the value, is for addressing the anomaly.2014-09-25
20140289419SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRANSFERRING A WEBSITE STATE ACROSS USER DEVICES USING A COOKIE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for transferring a website state across user devices using a cookie. These mechanisms and methods for transferring a website state across user devices using a cookie can use the cookie provide sharing of browser information among the user devices. The ability to provide sharing of browser information via a cookie can enable a user of one device to access the state of a browsing session with a website performed on another device, with minimal involvement by a backend system.2014-09-25
20140289420SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA IN A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method for processing communication media in a regionally distributed communication platform that includes at a first platform region, establishing a communication session comprising establishing a media communication to at least one endpoint from the first region and establishing signaling communication to a second platform region; selecting a media resource in response to a change in media processing requirements of the communication session; when the selected media resource is outside the first region, routing media communication through a media resource outside of the first region; when the media resource is available in the first region, routing media communication through the media resource of the first region; and when the media resource is outside of the second region, storing the media communication in the first region at least temporarily and tunneling a branch of the media communication to a central media service in the second region.2014-09-25
20140289421Automatic Multimedia Upload For Publishing Data And Multimedia Content - Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites.2014-09-25
20140289422Automatic Multimedia Upload For Publishing Data And Multimedia Content - Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites.2014-09-25
20140289423METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE IN SHARING SCREEN AMONG DEVICES, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A method of improving quality of experience (QoE) in a first device which shares a screen of the first device with a second device includes: detecting a class of a content currently displayed on the screen; determining a QoE policy based on the detected class of the content; encoding a screen image of the screen based on the determined QoE policy; and transmitting the encoded screen image to the second device. As such, when a screen is shared among a plurality of devices, optimal QoE may be achieved with respect to each class of a content.2014-09-25
20140289424METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POLICY BASED ROUTING - A method and a device for policy based routing. The method comprises: setting interfaces of router(s) to be multiple redirection groups, the redirection groups being ordered according to a priority order; detecting interface states of interfaces in the redirection groups; and switching traffic among the multiple redirection groups according to the interface states of the interfaces in the redirection groups. With the adoption of the method and the device of the embodiments of the present disclosure, paths passing through other operators may be optionally preferred and operating costs are saved; and moreover, by configuring multi-level policy based routing, the reliability of data transmission is enhanced, and the networking of the operator is more flexible.2014-09-25
20140289425Method and System for Generating IP Address Profiles - A method and server for generating an IP address profile are provided. The method may include first gathering information about an IP address associated with an Internet user based at least in part on the Internet user's activity with respect to one or more Internet sites. The information may be stored in a database in association with the IP address, and a profile associated with the IP address may be generated based at least in part on the stored information. At some point, a request may be received for the profile from a web server in response to the Internet user requesting access to an Internet site associated with the web server. In response, the profile may be transmitted to the web server, such that the web server can dynamically alter one or more configurations of the Internet site based at least in part on the profile.2014-09-25
20140289426STORAGE OPTIMIZATION IN COMPUTING DEVICES - Disclosed are systems, methods, and machine-readable storage mediums for selectively performing storage optimization processes in a computing device. In at least some embodiments, a method includes monitoring access patterns in association with data of one or more files accessed by a user of the computing device, determining a classification of the computing device, and utilizing the user access patterns and the device classification in determining execution of a storage optimization process based on a storage optimization policy. The storage optimization policy can specify downsampling, lossy compression, lossless compression, or a combination thereof to be applied to the files based on thresholds associated with the user access patterns and/or the device classification. Utilization of the storage optimization policy can enable the computing device to have an infinite local storage capacity.2014-09-25
20140289427HIERARCHICAL BITMASKS FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF SERIALIZED DATA FIELDS - Disclosed are systems and methods for communicating with a sender machine and a receiver machine, and analyzing a bitmask associated with a message to be sent from the sender machine to the receiver machine, such that the bitmask comprises one or more presence bits and one or more absence bits, such that the presence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are included in the message and the absence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are omitted in the message. The systems and methods also dynamically determine compression instructions to compress the bitmask, and provide the compression instructions to the sender machine, wherein the compression instructions reduce size of the bitmask associated with the message to be sent to the receiver machine.2014-09-25
20140289428Dynamic Intervals for Synchronizing Data - In embodiments of dynamic intervals for synchronizing data, the data is periodically synchronized between computing devices, such as between server devices, client devices, and/or between client and server devices. A polling optimization service can assess heuristics that are associated with the data synchronizations between the computing devices, and determine optimal dynamic intervals to periodically synchronize the data based on the heuristics. The polling optimization service can then iterate to further assess the heuristics that are associated with subsequent data synchronizations and determine updates of the optimal dynamic intervals. The polling optimization service updates the heuristics based on the subsequent and ongoing data synchronizations, and iterates to update the optimal dynamic intervals based on the updated heuristics.2014-09-25
20140289429AUTOMATIC ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENT FOR HUB AND PERIPHERAL DEVICES - A device comprises circuitry configured for being communicatively coupled to a transceiver. In operation, the device is configured to receive a first message from another device to support at least one aspect of attachment of the device and the another device and to send, to the another device, a second message after the first message and prior to attachment. In operation, the device is further configured to receive, from the another device, a third message that is sent after the second message and prior to attachment and send, directly to the another device, data utilizing at least one channel for data transfer utilizing a second one of the addresses for identification in association with the device on the shared wireless communication medium, for data transfer after attachment in connection with a group that is controlled by the another device.2014-09-25
20140289430METHOD OF MONITORING THE STATUS OF A PERIPHERAL DEVICE, AND A COMPUTER AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A network system enables monitoring the status of peripheral devices from computers without concentrating a load on the network. A specific device driver that runs on a specific computer connected to the network has an initialization command transmission unit that sends a first initialization command to the specific printer when a process command is sent to a specific printer, and an operating status monitoring unit that, after initialization based on the first initialization command is completed, monitors the operating status of the specific printer until the printer power turns off. Because the specific computer does not initialize and does not monitor the operating status of the specific printer until the computer sends a process command, concentrating a load on the network is avoided when the network system starts up.2014-09-25
20140289431INTERFACE APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An interface apparatus is capable of connecting with a plurality of external devices and an electronic device. The electronic device generates control signals and a selecting signal. The interface apparatus comprises a plurality of interface ports, an interface, a selection unit, and a switch. The interface ports connect with the external devices respectively. The interface controls the switch to establish a connection between the selection unit and the interface in response to the first control signal for transmitting the selecting signal to the selection unit. The selection unit selects the interface port corresponding to the selecting signal to connect with the switch. The interface further transmits information from the external device corresponding to the selected interface port to the electronic device through the switch and the interface in that order in response to the second control signal.2014-09-25
20140289432CONNECTING DEVICE OF THE TRANSPORT SCREEN - The present invention relates to a connecting device of the transport screen, comprising: A connecting unit, with one or more electrical sockets for the I/O of the portable device to be connected; and a data transferring and controlling unit, one side of the unit could be connected to said connecting unit and the other side could be connected to the transport screen, so that the screen signal of the portable device could be transferred to one or more transport screen, if the transport screen, the touch signal also could be transferred to the portable device.2014-09-25
20140289433ISOLATED MULTI-NETWORK COMPUTER SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - The present invention presents apparatuses and systems for operating multiple computers from a single keyboard and a single mouse and view composite videos generated from video output of the multiple computers on a single display, while preventing any possible information leakage between the computers. Keyboard and mouse commands detected by a host controller are used to control a video processor and a peripheral switch. The peripheral switch directs keyboard and mouse signals to one selected host and at the same time, the video processor creates an active display window showing video information from the selected host. Physical unidirectional isolators in the video, keyboard and mouse channels prevent any potential data leakages between hosts.2014-09-25
20140289434Leveraging an Enumeration and/or Configuration Mechanism of One Interconnect Protocol for a Different Interconnect Protocol - An interconnect architecture device of an aspect includes a processor to generate a transaction that is of a different interconnect protocol than LLI. The interconnect architecture device also includes conversion logic coupled with the processor. The conversion logic is to convert the transaction, which is of the different interconnect protocol than LLI, to an LLI packet. The interconnect architecture device also includes an LLI controller coupled with the conversion logic. The LLI controller is to couple the interconnect architecture device with an LLI link. The LLI controller is to transmit the LLI packet on the LLI link.2014-09-25
20140289435Issuing Requests To A Fabric - In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether producer-consumer ordering rules have been met for a first transaction to be sent from a source agent to a target agent via a fabric, and if so a first request for the first transaction is sent from the source agent to the fabric in a first clock cycle. Then a second request can be sent from the source agent to the fabric for a second transaction in a pipelined manner. Other embodiments are described and claimed.2014-09-25
20140289436NETWORK CONTROLLER SHARING BETWEEN SMM FIRMWARE AND OS DRIVERS - A mechanism for reducing the cost of providing network-based remote platform management by allowing system firmware to communicate with a remote platform administrator or process by sharing a NIC that is also used for normal network traffic is discussed. The dual use of the NIC reduces the cost of remote platform management by removing the need for a secondary controller or CPU core on the computing device that is dedicated to remote management tasks. Additionally, performance in the computing device improves as a byproduct of a CPU core or thread not being dedicated to the management task and instead being available for handling of other tasks.2014-09-25
20140289437EXPANDER INTERRUPT PROCESSING - In one example in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, an expander is provided. The expander comprises a workload scheduling module to cause the expander to enter a first mode of operation where the expander processes interrupts, and further to enter a second mode of operation where the expander processes interrupts for up to a predetermined time period before responding to at least one of Serial Management Protocol (SMP) commands and Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) commands with a retry message.2014-09-25
20140289438HUMAN-MACHINE DIALOG SYSTEM - The invention concerns a human-machine dialog system (2014-09-25
20140289439METHOD OF HANDLING TRANSACTIONS, CORRESPONDING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A system, such as a System-on-Chip includes an interface component or PLUG which generates transactions over an IP block, such as an interconnect serving one or more clients via virtual channels. The client or clients are mapped onto the virtual channels via client/virtual channel mappings. The virtual channels are provided as a first set of virtual channels in the interface component which cooperate with a second set of virtual channels in the IP block. First and second client/virtual channel mappings for the first set of virtual channels and the second set of virtual channels are provided. The first and second client/virtual channel mappings are separately programmable and mutually decoupled from one another.2014-09-25
20140289440SYSTEMS AND METHODS INVOLVING DATA BUS INVERSION MEMORY CIRCUITRY, CONFIGURATION AND/OR OPERATION - Systems, methods and fabrication processes relating to memory devices involving data bus inversion are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a memory device may comprise a memory core, circuitry that receives a data bus inversion (DBI) bit associated with a data signal as input directly, without transmission through DBI logic associated with an input buffer, and circuitry that stores the DBI bit into the memory core, reads the DBI bit from the memory core, and provides the DBI bit as output. In further implementations, memory devices herein may store and process the DBI bit on an internal data bus as a regular data bit.2014-09-25
20140289441Multilevel Memory Bus System - The present invention relates to a multilevel memory bus system for transferring information between at least one DMA controller and at least one solid-state semiconductor memory device, such as NAND flash memory devices or the like. This multilevel memory bus system includes at least one DMA controller coupled to an intermediate bus; a flash memory bus; and a flash buffer circuit between the intermediate bus and the flash memory bus. This multilevel memory bus system may be disposed to support: an n-bit wide bus width, such as nibble-wide or byte-wide bus widths; a selectable data sampling rate, such as a single or double sampling rate, on the intermediate bus; a configurable bus data rate, such as a single, double, quad, or octal data sampling rate; CRC protection; an exclusive busy mechanism; dedicated busy lines; or any combination of these.2014-09-25
20140289442BUTTON SIGNALING FOR APPARATUS STATE CONTROL - A keypad circuit provides a signal corresponding to an actuation of a button. A query is presented to confirm intent to place an apparatus in a low-power state in response to the signal. The apparatus assumes a low-power state in response to a confirmation. The apparatus is also configured to assume an active state from a low-power state in response to the signal. Point-of-sale terminals and other apparatus can be controlled and operated accordingly.2014-09-25
20140289443Inter-Bus Communication Interface Device - There is provided an inter-bus communication interface device capable of efficiently performing transfer of data between a plurality of devices connected to different buses, respectively. When communication data is transmitted, a first device writes the communication data into a buffer, whereas when communication control information is transmitted, the first device writes the communication control information into a register. A control circuit passes the communication data stored in the buffer to a second device, and passes the communication control information stored in the register to a second device.2014-09-25
20140289444INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING - The presence of first storing unit that stores therein virtual bus data representing a virtual bus tree configuration in which some of the routes in the I/O bus system are virtually short-circuited; and a notifier that notifies the virtual bus data to a processing device disposed upstream of the I/O bus system makes it possible to operate the power source of the devices on the I/O bus system while the system is active.2014-09-25
20140289445HARDWARE ACCELERATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a hardware accelerator system and method. The system and method relate to a low power scalable stream compute accelerator for general matrix multiply (GEMM). There is provided a systolic compute accelerator architecture for matrix operations. Further, the system may include an application specific engine.2014-09-25
20140289446MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory and a controller configured to control the memory. The memory includes a semiconductor memory region in which data rewrite is executed by an instruction of the controller, a timing determination module configured to derive a command input timing to the memory, based on the instruction and a clock which are received from the controller, and a status register configured to store the command input timing to the memory, which is derived by the timing determination module.2014-09-25
20140289447APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR STORAGE SPACE RECOVERY - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for storage space recovery. A storage division selection module selects a first storage division for recovery. The first storage division comprises a portion of solid-state storage in a solid-state storage device. A data recovery module reads valid data from the first storage division in response to selecting the first storage division for recovery. The data recovery module stores the valid data in a second storage division of the solid-state storage device. The data recovery module passes the valid data through at least a portion of a write data pipeline for the solid-state storage device without passing the valid data to a host device and/or without routing the valid data outside of a solid-state storage controller for the solid-state storage device.2014-09-25
20140289448ADVANCED MEMORY INTERFACES AND METHODS - Controllers, interfaces, memory devices, methods and systems are disclosed, including a controller configured to interface with a separate memory device and perform an iterative write operation to program a selected memory cell of the memory device to a target state, wherein each iteration of the write operation is configured to successively change a physical state of the selected memory cell. Other controllers, interfaces, memory device, methods and systems are also described, such as those where either a controller or a memory device can throttle a data communication operation, and/or those that utilize customized programming pulses.2014-09-25
20140289449STORAGE APPARATUS, STORAGE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR RELOCATING DATA IN SOLID STATE DRIVE - According to one embodiment, a storage controller comprises an access statistic collection unit, a selection unit and a rewrite unit. The access statistic collection unit collects write frequencies of a plurality of small logical address areas having a predetermined size which configure a logical area of a logical unit defined using a solid state drive. The selection unit selects a set of first small logical address areas having low write frequencies from the logical unit. The rewrite unit collectively rewrites data of the set of the first small logical address areas to the solid state drive, and collectively rewrites data of a set of remaining second small logical address areas to the solid state drive.2014-09-25
20140289450Dynamic Log Likelihood Ratio Quantization for Solid State Drive Controllers - A method for system for dynamic channel Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) quantization for a Solid State Drive (SSD) controller is a targeted approach to scaling which results in a scaled, quantized set of LLRs whose relative magnitude remains undisturbed from an original magnitude. The method reads a set of voltages from each channel of the SSD. The set of reads is configured in location and number for performance. Once a set is returned, the method determines an LLR for each of the voltages read resulting in a raw set of LLRs. Targeted scaling results in a scaled set of LLRs between an upper limit and a lower limit determined for reading by a decoder. Once scaled, the LLRs are rounded and quantized for use by the decoder to produce an Error Correction Code (ECC).2014-09-25
20140289451METHOD OF RECORDING MAPPING INFORMATION, AND MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method of recording mapping information for a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided. The method includes configuring a plurality of logical addresses, establishing at least one logical address mapping table, and storing the at least one logical address mapping table into the rewritable non-volatile memory module. The method also includes receiving data to be stored into a plurality of continuous logical addresses from a host system, writing the data into a plurality of physical programming units, updating mapping relations between the continuous logical addresses and the physical programming units in a corresponding logical address mapping table loaded to a buffer memory, storing a continuous mapping table in the buffer memory, and recording a continuous mapping record corresponding to the continuous logical addresses in the continuous mapping table.2014-09-25
20140289452ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT INCLUDING STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a nonvolatile memory, controller and interface. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The controller controls the operation of the nonvolatile memory. The interface includes first and second input/output units that transmit and receive a signal with respect to a host device. The first and second input/output units are set on the first hierarchy having the same communication function. The interface issues a connection request to the first input/output unit and when the connection request to the first input/output unit is rejected, the interface issues the connection request to the second input/output unit.2014-09-25
20140289453MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTING METHOD OF VIRTUAL BLOCK - According to one embodiment, a virtual block is constructed according to configuration conditions that, when a plurality of physical blocks included in the virtual block are selected, the sum of the number of physical block pairs and the number of single blocks allocated from the same memory chip to one virtual block is less than or equal to a first value.2014-09-25
20140289454STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROLLER - A storage device includes a memory having one or more storage regions each of which is assigned a physical address, and a controller having a writing control circuit configured to write data that is divided into a plurality of data units into logical storage positions, at least one of which is associated with two storage regions of the memory, and a conversion unit configured to perform a conversion process on a logical address of the logical storage position that is associated with two storage regions of the memory to generate physical addresses corresponding to the two storage regions of the memory.2014-09-25
20140289455Memory Patching Circuit - A patching circuit for patching a memory 2014-09-25
20140289456DISK LOGGING METHOD APPLICABLE TO STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRNOIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM USING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - The present disclosure proposes a disk logging method configured for an electronic device comprising a temporary non-volatile storage medium to log data from a volatile memory to said first storage medium, and the method includes the elements of aggregating data from applications of the electronic device in a queue, transferring the aggregated data to a per device queue targeted toward a native queue of the storage medium, writing the data stored in the native queue of the storage medium into a disk platter of the storage medium, and transmitting an interrupt in response to the completion of the writing of the data to the disk platter, wherein the first batch size is dynamically adjusted such that the step of writing the data to the platter takes more time than the step of transferring the data from the per device queue to the native queue of the storage medium.2014-09-25
20140289457METHOD AND DEVICE TO REDUCE LEAKAGE AND DYNAMIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN HIGH-SPEED MEMORIES - A microcomputer comprising a microprocessor unit and a first memory unit is disclosed. In one aspect, the microprocessor unit comprises at least one functional unit and at least one register. Further, the at least one register is a wide register comprising a plurality of second memory units which are capable to each contain one word, the wide register being adapted so that the second memory units are simultaneously accessible by the first memory unit, and at least part of the second memory units are separately accessible by the at least one functional unit. Further, the first memory unit is an embedded non-volatile memory unit.2014-09-25
20140289458SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MICRO-TIERING IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - In a storage device such as a solid state disk (SSD), a central controller communicates with a plurality of multi-chip memory packages. Each multi-chip memory package comprises a plurality of memory dies and a local processor, wherein the plurality of memory dies includes different memory tiers. The central controller may handle management of the virtual address space while the local processor in each MCP manages the storage of data within memory tiers in the memory dies of its respective MCP.2014-09-25
20140289459STORAGE SYSTEM - The temporary area capacity required to be secured with respect to the whole permanent area is calculated in accordance with the capacity and access frequency of a host computer data permanent area of a disk device contained in the storage system and a disk device of an external storage device that is managed by a storage virtualization function of this storage system. The nonvolatile memory is defined as the temporary area and is used to temporarily store host computer data when a data I/O from the host computer is processed. The required capacity of the temporary area is re-calculated in accordance with an event such as a configuration change in the external storage system.2014-09-25
20140289460SYSTEMS AND METHODS INVOLVING DATA BUS INVERSION MEMORY CIRCUITRY, CONFIGURATION AND/OR OPERATION INCLUDING DATA SIGNALS GROUPED INTO 10 BITS AND/OR OTHER FEATURES - Systems, methods and fabrication processes relating to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices involving data signals grouped into 10 bits are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation a DRAM device may comprise a memory core, circuitry that receives a data bus inversion (DBI) bit associated with a data signal as input directly, without transmission through DBI logic associated with an input buffer, circuitry that stores the DBI bit into the memory core, reads the DBI bit from the memory core, and provides the DBI bit as output. In further implementations, DRAM devices herein may store and process the DBI bit on an internal data bus as a regular data bit.2014-09-25
20140289461INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING SELF-REFRESH MODE - Disclosed herein is an information processing system having first and second devices. The second device alternately issues a self-refresh command and a self-refresh exit command to the first device. The first device performs a refresh operation once in response to the self-refresh command and updates a state of a DLL circuit in response to the self-refresh exit command.2014-09-25
20140289462PROCESSOR AGNOSTIC DATA STORAGE IN A PCIE BASED SHARED STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are a system, a method and/or an apparatus of processor agnostic data storage in a PCIE based shared storage environment. In one aspect, a method includes processing a storage based request received at an adapter circuit of a controller device associated with a disk array to direct the storage based request to at least one of a processor of the disk array and a plurality of storage devices of the disk array. The method also includes routing, through an interface circuit of the controller device, the data request in the other format compatible with the storage device directly to at least one storage device of the plurality of storage devices of the disk array coupled to the controller device agnostic to a processor of the disk array to store a data associated with the data request based on a mapping table.2014-09-25
20140289463REPLICATION TARGET SERVICE - A data storage service receives commands configured according to a communication protocol, such as a small computer system interface protocol. The commands may be replications of commands sent to a block-level data storage system, such as a storage area network. Data to be written by execution of the commands is persisted using an object-based data storage system. When read commands are received, data blocks can be extracted from the data objects in which they are stored.2014-09-25
20140289464TAPE LIBRARY EMULATION WITH AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION AND DATA RETENTION - Disk based emulation of tape libraries is provided with features that allow easier management and administration of a backup system and also allow increased flexibility to both archive data on tape at a remote location and also have fast restore access to archived data files. Features include automatic emulation of physical libraries, and the retention and write protection of virtual tapes that correspond to exported physical tapes.2014-09-25
20140289465SMART CARD, PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SMART CARD PROCESSING DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a smart card includes a communication section and a control section. The communication section communicates with the external device. The control section sets up a first speed as the communication speed used for communication with the external device by the communication section. Moreover, the control section changes the communication speed from the first speed set up to a second speed specified by a change request when the control section receives the change request of the communication speed from the external device by the communication section.2014-09-25
20140289466DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - In a data processing apparatus having a plurality of card slots in which memory cards are removably inserted, it is determined, with regard to each of the plurality of card slots, whether a memory card that has been inserted into the slot is a wireless card having a wireless communication function. In a case where it is determined that a memory card that has been inserted into a first card slot among the plurality of card slots is the wireless card, the wireless communication function of the wireless card is enabled. In a case where it is determined that a memory card that has been inserted into a card slot other than the first card slot is the wireless card, the wireless communication function of the wireless card is disabled.2014-09-25
20140289467CACHE MISS DETECTION FILTER - Systems and methods are provided that facilitate cache miss detection in an electronic device. The system contains a probabilistic filter coupled to the processing device. A probing component determines existence of an entry associated with a request. The probing component can communicate a miss token without the need to query a cache. Accordingly, power consumption can be reduced and electronic devices can be more efficient.2014-09-25
20140289468LIGHTWEIGHT PRIMARY CACHE REPLACEMENT SCHEME USING ASSOCIATED CACHE - One aspect provides a method including: responsive to a request for data and a miss in both a first cache and a second cache, retrieving the data from memory, the first cache storing at least a subset of data stored in the second cache; inferring from information pertaining to the first cache a replacement entry in the second cache; and responsive to inferring from information pertaining to the first cache a replacement entry in the second cache, replacing an entry in the second cache with the data from memory. Other aspects are described and claimed.2014-09-25
20140289469PROCESSOR AND CONTROL METHOD OF PROCESSOR - A processor includes: processing units, each including a first cache memory; a second cache memory being shared among the processing units; an acquiring unit to acquire lock target information including first storage location information in an first cache memory included in one of the processing units from an access request to data cached in the second cache memory; a retaining unit to retain the lock target information until an response processing to the access request is completed; and a control unit to control an access request to the second cache memory, the access request being related to a replace request to a first cache memory, based on second storage location information of replace target data in the first cache memory and the lock target information, the second storage location information acquired from the access request related to the replace request.2014-09-25
20140289470Computing Device Having Optimized File System and Methods for Use Therein - A computing device having an optimized file system and methods for use therein. File system optimizations include sector-aligned writes, anchored cluster searches, anchored index searches, companion caches dedicated to particular file management data types and predictive cache updates, all of which expedite processing on the computing device. The file system optimizations are especially advantageous for data collection systems where an embedded device is tasked with logging to a target memory data received in a continuous data stream and where none of the streamed data is deleted until after the target memory has been offloaded to another device.2014-09-25
20140289471COHERENCE DE-COUPLING BUFFER - A coherence decoupling buffer. In accordance with a first embodiment, a coherence decoupling buffer is for storing tag information of cache lines evicted from a plurality of cache memories. A coherence decoupling buffer may be free of value information of the plurality of cache memories. A coherence decoupling buffer may also be combined with a coherence memory.2014-09-25
20140289472APPLICATION-GUIDED BANDWIDTH-MANAGED CACHING - Methods and systems for populating a cache memory that services a media composition system. Caching priorities are based on a state of the media composition system, such as media currently within a media composition timeline, a composition playback location, media playback history, and temporal location within clips that are included in the composition. Caching may also be informed by descriptive metadata and media search results within a media composition client or a within a media asset management system accessed by the client. Additional caching priorities may be based on a project workflow phase or a client project schedule. Media may be partially written to or read from cache in order to meet media request deadlines. Caches may be local to a media composition system or remote, and may be fixed or portable.2014-09-25
20140289473CACHE MEMORY, CACHE MEMORY CONTROL UNIT, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE CACHE MEMORY - A cache memory includes: a tag storage section in which one of a plurality of indexes, each index containing a plurality of tag addresses and one suspension-indicating section, is looked up by a first address portion of an accessed address; a data storage section; a tag control section configured to, when the suspension-indicating section contained in the looked-up index indicates suspension, allow access relevant to the accessed address to wait, and when the suspension-indicating section contained in the looked-up index indicates non-suspension, compare a second address portion different from the first address portion of the accessed address to each of the plurality of tag addresses contained in the looked-up index, and detects a tag address matched with the second address portion; and a data control section.2014-09-25
20140289474OPERATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An operation processing apparatus connected with another operation processing apparatus includes an operation processing unit configured to perform an operation process using first data administered by the own operation processing apparatus and second data administered by another operation processing apparatus and acquired from another operation processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to include a setting unit which sets the operation processing unit to an operating state or a non-operating state and a cache memory which holds the first data and the second data, wherein when the setting unit sets the operation processing unit to the operating state and the second data is evicted from the cache memory, the control unit sends to another operation processing apparatus the evicted data and a request which is a trigger for storing the evicted data in a cache memory in another operation processing apparatus.2014-09-25
20140289475CACHE MEMORY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND CACHE MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - A cache memory device includes: a processor; and a main memory and a cache memory coupled to the processer, wherein the processor executes a process includes: obtaining a first address in the main memory; obtaining a first index that indicates a first cache index of the cache memory by a hash function; storing a first tag of the first address in the first cache index; generating a second address, a second tag; obtaining by the hash function a second index that indicates a second cache index of the cache memory; changing the second index so that the second index and the first index match and storing the second tag with a third index that is indicated by the changed second index in the cache memory and in a way that is different from the way in which the tag of the first address is stored.2014-09-25
20140289476CACHING AND DEDUPLICATION OF DATA BLOCKS IN CACHE MEMORY - A storage system comprises a cache for caching data blocks and storage devices for storing blocks. A storage operating system may deduplicate sets of redundant blocks on the storage devices based on a deduplication requirement. Blocks in cache are typically deduplicated based on the deduplication on the storage devices. Sets of redundant blocks that have not met the deduplication requirement for storage devices and have not been deduplicated on the storage devices and cache are targeted for further deduplication processing. Sets of redundant blocks may be further deduplicated based on their popularity (number of accesses) in cache. If a set of redundant blocks in cache is determined to have a combined number of accesses being greater than a predetermined threshold number of accesses, the set of redundant blocks is determined to be “popular.” Popular sets of redundant blocks are selected for deduplication in cache and the storage devices.2014-09-25
20140289477LIGHTWEIGHT PRIMARY CACHE REPLACEMENT SCHEME USING ASSOCIATED CACHE - One aspect provides an apparatus including: at least one processor; and a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith and executable by the at least one processor, the computer readable program code including: computer readable program code configured to, responsive to a request for data and a miss in both a first cache and a second cache, retrieve the data from memory, the first cache storing at least a subset of data stored in the second cache; computer readable program code configured to infer from information available from the first cache a replacement entry in the second cache; and computer readable program code configured to, responsive to inferring from information available from the first cache a replacement entry in the second cache, replace an entry in the second cache with the data from memory. Other aspects are described and claimed.2014-09-25
20140289478CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A control device that controls a reading process of information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device and a unit storage area under control of a different control device in a distributed manner, the control device includes a processor. The processor executes a procedure including determining whether or not the reading process is a sequential reading process that reads information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device in an order of logical addresses and whether or not a reading target area of the sequential reading process includes a last address in the unit storage area, and reporting to the different control device control information related to a sequential reading process including the last address determined by the first determination unit.2014-09-25
20140289479BOUNDING BOX PREFETCHER - A data prefetcher in a microprocessor. The data prefetcher includes a plurality of period match counters associated with a corresponding plurality of different pattern periods. The data prefetcher also includes control logic that updates the plurality of period match counters in response to accesses to a memory block by the microprocessor, determines a clear pattern period based on the plurality of period match counters and prefetches into the microprocessor non-fetched cache lines within the memory block based on a pattern having the clear pattern period determined based on the plurality of period match counters.2014-09-25
20140289480PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PROCESSOR - A processor includes: a primary cache memory; an instruction control unit that issues a store request to the primary cache memory; a pipeline processing unit that, upon receiving the store request, writes data to the primary cache memory; a buffer unit that obtains an address output to the primary cache memory from the pipeline processing unit during an output period of the store request regarding certain data to hold the obtained address in an entry, and when the output period ends, issues a write-back request for writing the data indicated by the address held in the entry to a memory; and a secondary cache memory that, upon receiving the write-back request from the buffer unit, writes the data of the primary cache memory to the memory, the certain data is quickly written back to the memory from the primary cache memory.2014-09-25
20140289481OPERATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An operation processing apparatus includes an operation processing unit configured to perform an operation process using first data administered by the own operation processing apparatus and second data administered by and acquired from another operation processing apparatus, a main memory configured to store the first data and third data, and a control unit configured to include a setting unit which sets the operation processing unit to an operating state or a non-operating state and a cache memory which holds the first, second and third data, wherein when the setting unit sets the operation processing unit to the non-operating state and the third data is requested from another operation processing apparatus, which triggers cache miss in the cache memory, the control unit reads the requested data from the main memory and holds the requested data in the cache memory and sends the read data to another operation processing apparatus.2014-09-25
20140289482MULTI-PORT MEMORY AND OPERATION - Multi-port memory having an additional control bus for passing commands between ports have individual ports that can be configured to respond to a command received from an external control bus or to a command received from the additional control bus. This facilitates various combinations of ports to vary the bandwidth or latency of the memory to facilitate tailoring performance characteristics to differing applications.2014-09-25
20140289483SHARED MEMORY CONTROL UNIT HAVING LOCK TRANSACTION CONTROLLER - A shared memory controller controls access to a shared memory by a plurality of master devices based on access requests received from the plurality of master devices. The shared memory control unit includes a memory access arbiter that receives a lock reading request to lock a portion of shared memory, a waiting queue that stores the access requests, and a lock transaction controller. The lock transaction controller receives a plurality of access requests after the lock reading request is received by the memory access arbiter. The lock transaction controller stores the access requests in the waiting queue, and receives an unlock writing request to unlock the portion of shared memory. After the portion of shared memory is unlocked, the lock transaction controller releases the access requests from the waiting queue.2014-09-25
20140289484PORTABLE APPARATUS USING MULTI-CORE STORAGE MECHANISM AND DATA ACCESS METHOD THEREFOR - Portable apparatus using multi-core storage mechanism and data access method therefor are provided. The portable apparatus includes a host circuit for controlling the portable apparatus, having a plurality of channels for being coupled to a multi-core storage unit so as to perform write or read operation. The host circuit divides data to be written into a plurality of groups of block data and the host circuit outputs the groups of block data through at least two channels of the plurality of channels separately so as to write the data blocks into the multi-core storage unit2014-09-25
20140289485STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes a library apparatus, a storage apparatus, and a control apparatus including a processor. The processor is configured to execute a copy processing of copying data of a plurality of logical volumes from a storage apparatus to a first recording medium. The copy processing includes a read processing of reading first data of a first logical volume from the storage apparatus, and a first write processing of writing the first data to the first recording medium. The processor is configured to execute a second write processing of writing second data of the first logical volume to the storage apparatus. The processor is configured to interrupt the first write processing and execute the second write processing in a case where a conflict occurs between the second write processing and the first write processing, and resume the copy processing from a leading part of the first logical volume.2014-09-25
20140289486INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a main storage device, and a secondary storage device, in which the main storage device includes a non-volatile storage unit and a volatile storage unit, the volatile storage unit has a synchronization area that is synchronized with a predetermined area of the secondary storage device, and a page placed in the synchronization area is synchronized with the secondary storage device to be stored during an operation of the volatile storage unit.2014-09-25
20140289487SYSTEM OF MANAGING REMOTE RESOURCES - A system of managing remote resources that includes a local storage associated with a local storage manager constituting a local storage system. A remote storage associated with a remote storage manager constituting a local storage system. The local storage system is associated with a remote storage system by means of a first link. The local storage system is configured to send through the first link I/O remote commands complying with the SCSI protocol, for execution in the remote storage system. The system includes a second link associating the local storage system and the remote storage system. The local storage manager being responsive to remote storage management commands and being configured to send through the second link corresponding cross-storage-remote management commands that comply with the SCSI protocol, for execution in the remote storage.2014-09-25
20140289488SYSTEM FOR SECURING CONTENTS OF REMOVABLE MEMORY - This disclosure includes a method for securing a memory of an electronic system that includes initializing the memory, creating a security key, transmitting the security key to memory, storing the security key in the memory, transmitting the current security key and a a new security key to the memory by the memory controller. If the current security key transmitted is the same as the security key stored in memory, then access to the memory is enabled and the current security key in the memory is replaced with the new security key. If the current security key transmitted is not the same as the security key stored in the memory, then access to the memory is disabled.2014-09-25
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