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20120159232 | FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVICE AND VIRTUAL MACHINE IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS - An information processing service is allowed to be immediately recovered from failure without clustering information apparatuses that provide an information processing service. A failure recovery method for an information processing service provided by an information apparatus, the method includes: preparing a virtual machine image generation apparatus which generates a virtual machine image, and a virtual machine execution apparatus which runs a virtual machine based on the virtual machine image; generating and storing, by the virtual machine image generation apparatus, the virtual machine image based on system data and hardware configuration information which enable implementation of the information processing service at a time of normal operation of the information processing service; and running, by the virtual machine execution apparatus, a virtual machine which provides a function of the information processing service based on the virtual machine image when a failure occurs in the information processing service. | 06-21-2012 |
20130138705 | STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROLLER, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - A control unit of a storage system controller receives an access command to a first file specifying a first access position in the first file. A storage apparatus stores management information of the first file and management information of each of subfiles obtained by dividing the first file. The management information of the first file contains information associating a data position in the first file and management information of a subfile containning data at the data position. The management information of each of the subfiles contains information associating a data position in the corresponding subfile and a physical storage position. The control unit references the management information of the first file to identify the management information of the subfile containning the data at the first access position, and references the management information of the identified subfile to identify a physical storage position of the first access position. | 05-30-2013 |
20130191350 | Single Instantiation Method Using File Clone and File Storage System Utilizing the Same - In file de-duplication using hash value comparison, hash values of all target files must be calculated and actual data of all files must be read for hash value calculation, so that the processing time was long. The present invention provides a file storage system comprising a controller and a volume storing a plurality of files, the volume including a first directory storing a first file and a second file and a second directory storing a third file being created, wherein the controller migrates actual data of the second file to the third file, sets up a management information of the second file so that the third file is referred to when the second file is read, and if the sizes of actual data of the first file and the actual data of the third file are identical and the binaries of the actual data of the first file and the actual data of the third file are identical, sets up a management information of the first file to refer to the third file when reading the first file. | 07-25-2013 |
20130311429 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BACKUP AND RESTORATION, AND STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME - According to the prior art virtual file backup method, backup is performed without saving a file configuration information, so that the backup file cannot be restored as a virtual file during restoration, and the usage capacity of the disk is increased. According to the present invention, an actual data managed by a virtual file, an actual data managed by one or more element files and a configuration information of the virtual file are respectively stored during backup, wherein during restoration, the virtual file is restored based on the configuration information of the virtual file. | 11-21-2013 |
20140304226 | STORAGE SYSTEM - Regarding a method for migrating a file system by copying a file from a migration source to a migration destination and deleting the file at the migration source, a retention of a file in a page (allocation unit of a thin provisioning function) is either suppressed or solved, and two methods are proposed for solving the problems and for enabling migration of a file system in which the increase of utilization of storage capacity is suppressed, wherein one method changes the location of a file prior to performing copying so that the file to be copied next is located in the same page, and another method creates a reverse index table to recognize which block is used by files, thereby enabling to specify the file remaining within a page and copy the same by referring to this reverse index table. | 10-09-2014 |
20140379672 | SINGLE INSTANTIATION METHOD USING FILE CLONE AND FILE STORAGE SYSTEM UTILIZING THE SAME - The file storage system includes a controller and a volume storing a plurality of files, the volume including a first directory storing a first file and a second file and a second directory storing a third file being created. The controller migrates actual data of the second file to the third file, sets up a management information of the second file so that the third file is referred to when the second file is read, and if the sizes of actual data of the first file and the actual data of the third file are identical and the binaries of the actual data of the first file and the actual data of the third file are identical, sets up a management information of the first file to refer to the third file when reading the first file. | 12-25-2014 |
20160006829 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A second storage unit stores a first piece of data and second pieces of data. Each of first storage units holds configuration information indicating association between the first piece of data and the second pieces of data associated by first computers. Each of the first computers receives a second piece of data and register information of the received second piece of data in the configuration information, instructs a second computer to store the received second piece of data in association with the first piece of data, and identifies a second piece of data to be acquired from the second computer based on the configuration information in acquiring the second piece of data. The second computer, in accordance with instructions from the first computers, stores the second pieces of data in the second storage unit in association with the first piece of data. | 01-07-2016 |
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20080209025 | STORAGE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONNECTION METHOD - The storage system in the present invention includes: plural control units for controlling data sending/reception independently for each network; a management unit provided between a management computer and the control units, for managing the control units based on a command sent from the management computer; a virtual communication channel creation unit for creating a virtual communication channel between the management unit and the control units; a virtual communication channel connection unit for separately connecting the management unit and each control unit to the virtual communication channel created by the virtual communication channel creation unit; and a sending unit for sending, to each control unit, a command sent from the management computer via the virtual communication channel connected by the virtual communication channel connection unit. | 08-28-2008 |
20090077087 | ACCESS CONTROLLER THAT CONTROLS ACCESS TO FILES BY USING ACCESS CONTROL LIST - Each time the file access request is received, it is discriminated whether there is an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching in the file designated by the file access request. In cases where the judgment result is that there is no such ACL, an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching is generated on the basis of an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type prior to the switching which is associated with the designated file, and the ACL thus generated is used to control access in accordance with the received file access request. | 03-19-2009 |
20090190590 | Server Machine and Network Processing Method - An object of the present invention is to provide a server machine and network processing method capable of running a plurality of same server applications at a time on a single OS in a single sever machine. | 07-30-2009 |
20100082716 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR FILE SERVER RESOURCE DIVISION - Provided is a method including the steps of: storing multiple IP addresses and resource management information including correspondence relationships among the multiple IP addresses, multiple file cache regions and multiple virtual file servers; processing multiple file requests transmitted from a client computer in accordance with the resource management information, by use of a lent file cache region being a part of the multiple file cache regions corresponding to the multiple virtual file servers, a lent IP address being a part of the multiple IP addresses, and a lent volume being a part of multiple volumes, the requests transmitted by designating the multiple virtual file servers, respectively; and creating a child virtual file server by receiving a child virtual file server creation request designating one of the multiple virtual file servers. | 04-01-2010 |
20100299306 | STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING FILE CHANGE NOTIFICATION INTERFACE - The present invention provides a file operation notifying program for detecting a file operation of an application in a virtual file server on a server machine, and notifying the file operation to an application on another virtual file server inside the server machine, and to an application external to the server machine based on a notification management table. | 11-25-2010 |
20110035409 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND COPY CONTROL METHOD OF FILE FOR HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM - An interface for controlling an inhibition of a recall is prepared for an application, and a judgment of necessity of a recall is informed of to a hierarchical storage before the application executes an access to a file. | 02-10-2011 |
20110191306 | COMPUTER, ITS PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - When a deletion request to delete a file system is made and a retention period of the file system to be deleted has not expired, the retention period end date and time is displayed at high speed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110289494 | SYSTEM SOFTWARE UPDATE METHOD - Provided is a computer system including a first server and a storage system. In the first server, a first virtual server and a second virtual server are operated. Upon reception of a request to boot the first virtual server, the second virtual server judges whether system software of the first virtual server, which is requested to be booted, matches system software of the first server in which the first virtual server is operated. In the case where the system software of the first virtual server and the system software of the first server do not match, the second virtual server updates the system software of the first virtual server before booting the first virtual server. | 11-24-2011 |
20120005193 | FILE-SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FILES, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a technique capable of efficiently operating files and directories that are stored in storage located in a physically far place from a file server, without causing a network latency. An index creation program is also loaded in a cloud computing environment, and a flag, which indicates whether or not to execute batch processing to a directory that has been migrated to the cloud side, is provided, whereby it becomes possible to collectively execute index creation processing for the migrated directory on the cloud side. More specifically, upon completion of migration of all files under a given directory to the cloud side, a flag, which indicates whether or not to perform batch processing on the cloud side, is validated for the metadata of the directory. Such a batch processing flag can be held for each application such as applications of the index creation processing and the virus check processing. | 01-05-2012 |
20120101995 | FILE SERVER FOR MIGRATION OF FILE AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING FILE - A file server stores the storage management information and migration policy information. The storage management information includes the information that indicates a storage attribute for each storage apparatus. The migration policy information includes a plurality of information sets. Each of the information sets includes the information that indicates a condition of a file attribute and the information that indicates a condition of a storage attribute of a storage apparatus that is a migration destination. The file server specifies a migration target file, specifies a storage apparatus that conforms to the storage attribute condition that is indicated by the information set that includes the information that indicates a condition of a file attribute that conforms to of a file attribute of a target file based on the storage management information, and migrates a target file from a storage apparatus that has stored the target file to the storage apparatus that has been specified. | 04-26-2012 |
20120278289 | ACCESS CONTROLLER THAT CONTROLS ACCESS TO FILES BY USING ACCESS CONTROL LIST - Each time the file access request is received, it is discriminated whether there is an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching in the file designated by the file access request. In cases where the judgment result is that there is no such ACL, an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching is generated on the basis of an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type prior to the switching which is associated with the designated file, and the ACL thus generated is used to control access in accordance with the received file access request. | 11-01-2012 |
20120311004 | FILE-SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FILES, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a technique capable of efficiently operating files and directories that are stored in storage located in a physically far place from a file server, without causing a network latency. An index creation program is also loaded in a cloud computing environment, and a flag, which indicates whether or not to execute batch processing to a directory that has been migrated to the cloud side, is provided, whereby it becomes possible to collectively execute index creation processing for the migrated directory on the cloud side. More specifically, upon completion of migration of all files under a given directory to the cloud side, a flag, which indicates whether or not to perform batch processing on the cloud side, is validated for the metadata of the directory. Such a batch processing flag can be held for each application such as applications of the index creation processing and the virus check processing. | 12-06-2012 |
20130311544 | STORAGE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONNECTION METHOD - The storage system in the present invention includes: plural control units for controlling data sending/reception independently for each network; a management unit provided between a management computer and the control units, for managing the control units based on a command sent from the management computer; a virtual communication channel creation unit for creating a virtual communication channel between the management unit and the control units; a virtual communication channel connection unit for separately connecting the management unit and each control unit to the virtual communication channel created by the virtual communication channel creation unit; and a sending unit for sending, to each control unit, a command sent from the management computer via the virtual communication channel connected by the virtual communication channel connection unit. | 11-21-2013 |
20140040356 | Server Machine and Network Processing Method - An object of the present invention is to provide a server machine and network processing method capable of running a plurality of same server applications at a time on a single OS in a single sever machine. | 02-06-2014 |
20140122547 | FILE SERVER FOR MIGRATION OF FILE AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING FILE - A file server stores storage management information and migration policy information. The storage management information includes information that indicates a storage attribute for each storage apparatus. The migration policy information includes a plurality of information sets. Each of the information sets includes information that indicates a condition of a file attribute and information that indicates a condition of a storage attribute of a storage apparatus that is a migration destination. The file server specifies a migration target file, specifies a storage apparatus that conforms to the storage attribute condition indicated by the information set that includes the information indicating a condition of a file attribute that conforms to that of a file attribute of a target file based on the storage management information, and migrates a target file from a storage apparatus that has stored the target file to the storage apparatus that has been specified. | 05-01-2014 |
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20130160938 | ADHESIVE OPTICAL FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film of the invention comprises an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the optical film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness (μm) standard deviation of 0.12 μm or less. The pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film makes it possible to reduce the problem of visible unevenness caused by a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 06-27-2013 |
20130216805 | ADHESIVE OPTICAL FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film of the invention comprises an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the optical film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness (μm) standard deviation of 0.12 μm or less. The pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film makes it possible to reduce the problem of visible unevenness caused by a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130330544 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LAYER-CARRYING OPTICAL FILM - A method for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical film includes at least: an adhesion facilitating treatment step comprising performing an adhesion facilitating treatment on a surface of the optical film where the anchor layer is to be formed, before a step of forming the anchor layer is performed; and an application step comprising applying an anchor layer-forming coating liquid to the surface of the optical film having undergone the adhesion facilitating treatment, wherein the anchor layer-forming coating liquid contains a mixed solvent, a binder resin, and a polyoxyalkylene group-containing polymer, and the mixed solvent contains 65 to 100% by weight of water and 0 to 35% by weight of an alcohol or contains 0 to 35% by weight of water and 65 to 100% by weight of an alcohol. | 12-12-2013 |
20130330545 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LAYER-CARRYING OPTICAL FILM - A method for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical film includes the step of applying, over the optical film, a coating liquid for anchor layer comprising a mixed solvent comprising 10 to 100% by weight of water and 90 to 0% by weight of an alcohol, and a polyoxyalkylene-group-containing polymer so as to give an applied-coat thickness before drying of 20 μm or less; and next drying the workpiece under drying conditions satisfying both of the following requirements (1) and (2):
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20130330550 | ANCHOR-LAYER-FORMING COATING LIQUID, PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LAYER-CARRYING OPTICAL FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE FILM - A coating liquid for forming an anchor layer interposed between an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, comprising a polythiophene based polymer, a polyoxyalkylene-group-containing polymer, and a mixed solvent comprising 65 to 100% by weight of water and 0 to 35% by weight of an alcohol. | 12-12-2013 |
20140130955 | ADHESIVE OPTICAL FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film of the invention comprises an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the optical film, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness (μm) standard deviation of 0.12 μm or less. The pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film makes it possible to reduce the problem of visible unevenness caused by a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 05-15-2014 |
20140363667 | SEPARATOR-ATTACHED PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LAYER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LAYER-ATTACHED OPTICAL FILM WITH SEPARATOR - A separator-attached pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the present invention including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a separator, wherein the separator includes a base film and an oligomer prevention layer, and a release layer provided in this order on the base film, and the release layer has a surface resistance value of 1.0×10 | 12-11-2014 |
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20090102620 | FORCE/TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE - A force/tactile feedback device feeding back a force sense to a fingertip of an operator includes a fingerstall to which the fingertip of the operator is inserted, a position feedback means for feeding back a position to the fingertip held by the fingerstall, a fingertip contact point feedback means for feeding back a fingertip contact point to the fingertip held by the fingerstall and an unnecessary moment removal means for supporting the fingertip contact point feedback means so that unnecessary moment is not generated at a tip portion of the position feedback means. | 04-23-2009 |
20100168950 | Path Planning Device, Path Planning Method, and Computer Program - A path planning device includes: an initial position and posture path acquiring unit which acquires an initial position and posture path including a plurality of nodes connecting present position and posture of a control target to target position and posture and which configures a rigid body corresponding to the control target in each node in the position and posture path; an interference detector which detects interference with the control target by an obstruction; an external force calculator which calculates an external force for each rigid body; and a multi rigid body system dynamics simulation unit which performs a multi rigid body system dynamics simulation on a plurality of equations of rigid body motion and which acquires positions and postures of the control target at times corresponding to the nodes in the position and posture path. | 07-01-2010 |
20110156416 | GRASPING APPARATUS - A grasping apparatus includes a base unit, left and right parallel links, and a driving unit that is housed in the base unit and drives the first link of the right parallel link and the first link of the left parallel link in the open/close direction. Each of the left and right parallel links has a first link attached pivotably in an open/close direction about a base shaft of the base unit, a second link attached pivotably in the open/close direction about an auxiliary shaft located on an outer side in the open/close direction, a finger unit supported pivotably at an end of the first link and an end of the second link, and a claw projecting toward the inner side in the open/close direction and disposed along an end face of the grasping surface of the finger unit of each of the left and right parallel links. | 06-30-2011 |
20110238212 | ROBOT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD CARRIED OUT BY THE ROBOT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA - A robot apparatus, method and computer program storage device use a memory that stores cueing point information and user information to assist a user in an external environment. The cueing points are distributed within an environmental map held by the robot apparatus, and when the user is detected by the robot apparatus as approaching a predetermined region within the external environment classified as a cueing point, the robot apparatus reacts by providing a cue to the user. The cue may user-specific, or optionally provided based on a level of care required by the user. | 09-29-2011 |
20120290132 | ROBOT DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a robot device including a drive unit including a plurality of links and joints connecting the links, a task instruction input unit for inputting an instruction of a task, a drive control unit for controlling an operation of the drive unit on the basis of the input task and determining a restricted area including a space necessary for the operation of the drive unit, and an area display unit for displaying the restricted area. | 11-15-2012 |
20130245822 | ROBOT APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ROBOT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A robot apparatus includes: a grasping section configured to grasp an object; a recognition section configured to recognize a graspable part and a handing-over area part of the object; a grasp planning section configured to plan a path of the grasping section for handing over the object to a recipient by the handing-over area part; and a grasp control section configured to control grasp operation of the object by the grasping section in accordance with the planned path. | 09-19-2013 |
20140148738 | EXERCISE SUPPORT APPARATUS AND EXERCISE SUPPORT METHOD - There is provided an exercise support apparatus including a leg rod connected to a waist region and a foot region of a user and including a linear motion actuator, a waist connecting section configured to connect one end of the leg rod to the waist region, and a foot region connecting section configured to connect the other end of the leg rod to the foot region. | 05-29-2014 |
20160082590 | ROBOT APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ROBOT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A robot apparatus includes: a grasping section configured to grasp an object; a recognition section configured to recognize a graspable part and a handing-over area part of the object; a grasp planning section configured to plan a path of the grasping section for handing over the object to a recipient by the handing-over area part; and a grasp control section configured to control grasp operation of the object by the grasping section in accordance with the planned path. | 03-24-2016 |
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20100099800 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION HAVING RUBBERY POLYMER PARTICLE DISPERSED THEREIN, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A thermosetting resin composition having rubbery polymer particles dispersed therein of the present invention, that does not precipitate the thermosetting resin rubbery polymer particles over a long period of time, has excellent fluidity, is easily cured and molded, and sufficiently exhibits original properties of the thermosetting resin, comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin, and 1 to 80 parts by weight of rubbery polymer particles, the rubbery polymer particles being dispersed in the form of a primary particle, wherein the solid content concentration is 60% to 90% by weight, and the water concentration is 3% by weight or less, and can efficiently be produced industrially in the state that the rubbery polymer particles are maintained in a stable state. The composition can be produced by a process for production of a thermosetting resin composition having rubbery polymer particles dispersed therein of the present invention, comprising a concentration step of deaerating a gas phase adjacent to a mixed solution comprising the rubbery polymer particles, the thermosetting resin, water and an organic solvent to reduce the pressure therein, thereby reducing the amounts of the water and the organic solvent in the mixed solution. | 04-22-2010 |
20110300592 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLY-3-HYDROXYALKANOIC ACID - When industrially separating and purifying poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid produced by a microorganism, to obtain poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid particles having an arbitrary volume mean particle diameter with favorable productivity and with decreased amount of an organic solvent used is enabled while decreasing contaminants derived from constitutive components of cellular bodies. According to the present invention, aggregated matter of poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid is obtained by adjusting the amount of organic nitrogen in an aqueous suspension containing poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid to not greater than 1,500 ppm per weight of poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid; and thereafter allowing poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid to be aggregated in the aqueous suspension. | 12-08-2011 |