Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory inventions 11/07

20070276984 - Data format for efficient encoding and access of multiple data items in rfid tags: Methods and systems for optimizing storage of data items in a memory of an radio frequency identification tag (RFID) are provided. The data structure for optimized storage includes a packed object having a length section including an indication of a number of identifiers in the packed object, an identifier section... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070276985 - Data format for efficient encoding and access of multiple data items in rfid tags: Systems and methods for optimizing random access retrieval of a requested data item in a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag are provided. During random access retrieval, a first read of a memory bank in the RFID tag is performed. The first read providers a set of identifier indices stored in... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070276983 - System method and circuit for differential mirroring of data: Disclosed is a system, method and circuit for mirroring data on a data server. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a primary mirroring module associated with a primary server may be adapted to establish data mirroring connections between the primary server and one or more mirror sever systems.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070276990 - Method for preloading data to improve data-retrieval times: The present invention discloses methods for improving data-retrieval times from a non-volatile storage device. A method for preloading data to improve data-retrieval times from a non-volatile storage device, the method including the steps of: providing a cache memory for preloading the data upon a host-system request to read the data;... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070276986 - Non-volatile storage device and write method thereof: It is possible to eliminate the defect that a long time is required for writing into a semiconductor memory card by resulting from the fact, with enlargement of its capacity, that the external data management size is different from the internal data management size in the semiconductor memory card. A... Agent: Randolph A Smith Smith Patent Office

20070276988 - Page and block management algorithm for nand flash: A flash controller is adapted to communicate with a host and the flash memory and including volatile memory configured to store a page-block table of logical addresses addressable by the physical addresses. The logical addresses are used by the controller to identify the blocks. The table has an address mapping... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20070276989 - Predictive data-loader: The present invention discloses devices for improving data-retrieval times from a non-volatile storage device. A non-volatile storage device including: a storage memory for storing data; a cache memory for preloading the data upon a host-system request to read the data; and a storage-device controller configured: to determine that a plurality... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070276987 - Source and shadow wear-leveling method and apparatus: A flash memory system includes flash memory organized into a plurality of blocks of pages for storage of information, a page including data and spare, the blocks being identifiable, within the flash memory, by a physical address. The system further has a flash controller for communicating with a host and... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20070276991 - Method and system for controlling access to data of a tape data storage medium: A method, system, and machine-readable medium for controlling access to data of a tape data storage medium are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises conveying data access control metadata from a tape cartridge comprising a tape data storage medium to a host, receiving decrypted... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20070276992 - Logical to physical device topological location mappings: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions for visually representing a status of a plurality of storage device slots and a plurality of attached storage devices by, and a method for visually representing a status of a plurality of storage device slots and a plurality of attached storage devices includes,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070276993 - Disk unit and reading ahead control method for rotation type storage device: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention increase a hit ratio of cache by deciding an access area for reading ahead using a latency time based on the feature of an access pattern. A disk unit comprises preceding data reading ahead means for reading the preceding data of read request... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070276995 - Hybrid solid state disk drive with controller: A solid-state disk drive includes a first portion of solid-state memory of a volatile nature, a second portion of solid-state memory of a non-volatile nature, a controller for managing the memories, and a power subsystem for protecting data in volatile memory in the event of loss of power.... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070276994 - Methods for managing data writes and reads to a hybrid solid-state disk drive: A method for writing data to a solid-state disk having a first portion of solid-state memory of a volatile nature and a second portion of solid-state memory of a non-volatile nature, and a controller for controlling data operations to the memory includes acts of (a) receiving at the controller, write... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070276996 - Software program for managing and protecting data written to a hybrid solid-state disk drive: A machine-readable medium is provided having stored thereon a set of instructions that cause a controller of solid-state disk having a first portion of solid-state memory of a volatile nature and a second portion of solid-state memory of a non-volatile nature to perform a method including (a) receiving at the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070276998 - Hierarchical control apparatus of hierarchical storage system and method for maintaining and managing duplexed media: A control unit of a hierarchical control apparatus holds information in which one of duplexed library apparatuses is set as a master and the other is set as a slave for each medium in each of the duplexed library apparatuses, and statistical information about each of the library apparatuses. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070276997 - Method for host bus adapter-based storage partitioning and mapping across shared physical drives: A system for a host-based RAID solution in a shared storage environment is provided in which the compute blades of a system are coupled to one or multiple concentrators. The concentrators serve as a switch or expander to couple each of the compute blades to a shared storage resource. Within... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070276999 - Adaptive grouping in object raid: A method and system for data redundancy, wherein method comprises storing an object in an object storage device, storing a duplicate of the object in a second object storage device, converting the object into any of a grouped object Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) layout and an individual RAID... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070277000 - Methods and apparatus for providing simultaneous software/hardware cache fill: Methods and apparatus provide a hardware implemented cache refill circuit for managing at least one address translation table cache, the at least one address translation table cache containing data used to translate an external address into a physical address of a processing system; provide a software implemented cache refill function... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070277001 - Apparatus and method for reducing information leakage between processes sharing a cache: Apparatus and methods for reducing information leakage between processes sharing a cache are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution logic, a cache memory, and cache security logic. The execution unit is to execute a plurality of processes. The cache memory is to be shared between the plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070277002 - Apparatus for sharing access by two modules and method thereof: The present invention discloses an apparatus for sharing access by two modules includes at least a storage unit, a first module, and a second module. The second module is coupled to the first module and the storage unit, for accessing the storage unit according to a transmission protocol. The first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070277003 - Multi-port memory architecture for storing multi-dimensional arrays i: An N-port memory architecture is disclosed that stores multi-dimensional arrays so that: (1) N contiguous elements in a row can be accessed without blocking, (2) N contiguous elements in a column can be accessed without blocking, (3) some N-element two-dimensional sub-arrays can be accessed without blocking, and (4) all N/2-element... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070277004 - Multi-port memory architecture for storing multi-dimensional arrays ii: An N-port memory architecture is disclosed that stores multi-dimensional arrays so that: (1) N contiguous elements in a row can be accessed without blocking, (2) N contiguous elements in a column can be accessed without blocking, (3) some N-element two-dimensional sub-arrays can be accessed without blocking, and (4) all N/2-element... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070277006 - Systems and methods capable of controlling multiple data access: When receiving request commands from different hosts, a data system generates corresponding phase control signals and access signals based on the formats of each request command. Based on the phase control signals, timing signals corresponding to respect request commands and including a plurality of enabling time slots are generated in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070277007 - Method of controlling storage device controlling apparatus, and storage device controlling apparatus: In a storage device controlling apparatus which includes: a plurality of channel controllers having a circuit board on which are formed a file access processing section receiving from an information processing apparatus requests to input and output data in files as units via a network and an I/O processor outputting... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070277005 - Recording medium, data processing apparatus, and data processing method: In addition to a nonvolatile recording area, a host interface, a controller and an update notification part are provided with a recording medium. The controller reads and writes data from and to the recording area, and sends the data of the recording area and update information to a data processing... Agent: Randolph A. Smith Smith Patent Office

20070277008 - In-place data deinterleaving: A method for deinterleaving a sequence of interleaved data stored in a set of memory locations from a first order to a second order in-place of a memory with linear time. Two data items are withdrawn from the center of the sequence, creating a hole therein. Destination positions for said... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20070277009 - Memory management unit and method for memory management: A memory management unit that includes: (i) multiple data segment descriptors, each data segment descriptor associated with a data memory segment; (ii) multiple program segment descriptors, each program segment descriptor associated with a program memory segment; and (iii) a controller, adapted to replace the content of the multiple data segment... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070277012 - Method and apparatus for managing backup data and journal: The system includes a host, storage system, and a backup storage system. In response to instruction issued by host, storage system selects snapshot and journal entries needed to restore the image of data at the specified time point or within specified time period, and takes a backup of them to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070277010 - Retaining shadow copy data during replication: Implementations of the present invention provide systems, methods, and components configured to preserve valid shadow copies during replication cycles, before those valid shadow copies have expired. In particular, one or more components can identify the size and rate of changes in production server data that will be applied to a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070277011 - Storage system and data management method: Provided are a storage system and a data management method capable of improving the responsiveness of data that is periodically and frequently accessed without adversely affecting the data I/O processing. This storage system monitors the access frequency of a host system to a volume and copies the data stored in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070277013 - Method for transmitting protected information to a plurality of recipients: The invention relates to first information which is determined for a first receiver. Said first information is transmitted together with secondary information, which is determined for a second receiver in a common information unit to the first receiver. The first information can be encrypted according to specifications of the first... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070277014 - Move data facility with optional specifications: A move data facility is provided that enables optional specifications to be indicated to flexibly control the move operation. Data may be moved from any address space to any other address space without modifying the operating system to support such a move. A single instruction is used, for instance, to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070277015 - Apparatus, system, and method for presenting a storage volume as a virtual volume: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for presenting a storage volume as a virtual volume. An attribute module determines a primary volume physical attribute of a primary volume. A presentation module presents the primary volume physical attribute to a host as a target volume virtual attribute of a target... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070277017 - Method and a computer for storage area management: A method for storage management is provided which displays the materials on which it is determined which of the thin provisioning volume or the logical unit (LU) is to be used for storage promotion. The method is executed in a computer system having one or more host computers, one or... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070277016 - Methods and apparatus related to memory modules: A control unit for a memory module includes a usage determination unit configured to determine accumulated usage information and a control circuit coupled to the usage determination unit. The control circuit is configured to compare the accumulated usage information and usage limit information defining a limit for a usage of... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070277018 - Storage area allocating apparatus, storage area allocating method, and computer product: A capacity calculator identifies a data area required by an application by using capacity calculation information stored in a capacity-calculation-information storage unit, and calculates the capacity of the identified respective data areas. A virtual-disk allocating unit allocates a virtual disk associated with a physical disk to the data area, the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070271408 - Memory administrating method: A memory administrating method of administrating a memory divided into plural regions each of which consists of consecutive memory addresses, comprising steps of: providing each region of the plural regions with usage information; and when releasing a release target region currently being in use, determining a usage of the release... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070271409 - Memory module, memory system, and data processing system: A user-friendly data processing system apparatus which ensures the expandability of memory capacity and high speed processing with low cost is provided. The data processing system is composed of a data processing unit, a volatile memory and a nonvolatile memory. The data processing unit, the volatile memory and the nonvolatile... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070271410 - Method and system for restoring data: One aspect of the invention is a method for restoring data, which for example, includes receiving a request for at least a portion of the data. This example also includes creating a directory entry for the data in a virtual file system, and allocating storage space for the data. This... Agent: Timothy N. Ellis, Patent Attorney

20070271411 - Function switching method and function switching device, data storing method and data storing device, as well as equipment and air conditioner: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of assembling a device in both of a first device performing a first function with a predetermined part and a second device performing a second function without a second part, and instructing each of the first and second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070271412 - Dynamic volume management: A method for managing a range of memory in a flash memory space in which a plurality of data objects are stored. A volume defined for the range of memory has a first end and second end, with a respective list of data objects associated with each end. The volume... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070271413 - Storage control apparatus, data management system and data management method: A storage control apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of connecting units connected to one or more host computers and one or more hard disk drives as storage media for storing data, one or more non-volatile storage media which are of a different type from the hard... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070271414 - Storage system and file-reference method of remote-site storage system: A storage system conducting remote copy functions such that, when data is updated at a local site, contents of the update can be referred to in real time by storage at a remote site. A disk-control unit at a remote site receives file data written in accordance with an update... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070271415 - Adaptable datapath for a digital processing system: The present invention includes a adaptable high-performance node (RXN) with several features that enable it to provide high performance along with adaptability. A preferred embodiment of the RXN includes a run-time configurable data path and control path. The RXN supports multi-precision arithmetic including 8, 16, 24, and 32 bit codes.... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070271417 - Method and system for maximum residency replacement of cache memory: Techniques for use in CDMA-based products and services, including replacing cache memory allocation so as to maximize residency of a plurality of set ways following a tag miss allocation. Herein, steps and instructions provide for forming a first-in, first-out (FIFO) cache way listing of victim ways for the cache memory,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070271416 - Method and system for maximum residency replacement of cache memory: Techniques for use in CDMA-based products and services, including replacing cache memory allocation so as to maximize residency of a plurality of set ways following a tag-miss allocation. Herein, steps forming a first-in, first-out (FIFO) replacement listing of victim ways for the cache memory, wherein the depth of the FIFO... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070271418 - Resource leak diagnosis: The resource leak detector attempts to identify the causes of resource leaks and fix the causes if possible. At a minimum, the located resource leaks are reported to an operating system manufacture for additional study and possible correction, either by the operating system manufacturer or the application manufacturer that is... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070271419 - Memory administrating method: A memory administrating method of administrating a memory divided into plural memory regions each of which consists of consecutive memory addresses, comprises steps of: acquiring a memory region from the plural memory regions; and registering at least one of usage information indicating the usage of the acquired memory region and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070271420 - Scaling address space utilization in a multi-threaded, multi-processor computer: Scaling address space utilization in a multi-threaded, multi-processor computer, including attaching to process memory of an exporting process a region of virtual memory specified in a cross-memory descriptor; requesting, by an importing thread of an importing process having process memory, a lightweight attachment of the region of virtual memory to... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070271423 - Control device and control method for memory: A control device for a memory is provided. The control device includes a micro-control unit (MCU), a command queue, a command sequencer, and a table. The control device is coupled to the memory and is used for controlling the memory to execute an operation. In which, the MCU outputs a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070271422 - Method and apparatus for data recovery: A storage system stores I/O operations in a journal volume in a chronological order and with assigned sequence numbers. When a predefined command to be logged is received, the storage system transmits a log of the command to an external server with the information of a particular sequence number of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070271421 - Reducing aging effect on memory: Methods and apparatus to reduce aging effect on memory are described. In one embodiment, a modified version of data is stored in a portion of a storage unit during a first time period.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC Portfolioip

20070271424 - Memory module, a memory system including a memory controller and a memory module and methods thereof: A memory module, a memory system including a memory controller and a memory module and methods thereof. The example memory module may include a plurality of memory units each having an interface and at least one memory device. An example write operation method may include receiving a packet command at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070271425 - Selective generation of an asynchronous notification for a partition management operation in a logically-partitioned computer: A logically-partitioned computer, program product and method utilize a flexible and adaptable communication interface between a partition and a partition manager, which permits optimal handling of partition management operations such as state change operations and the like over a wide variety of circumstances. In particular, a partition is permitted to... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070271427 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer readable medium: A data processing apparatus includes: a storage that has first to nth storage areas and stores data in the first to nth storage areas; a specific area erasion section that erases the data stored in the first storage area of the storage; a area erasion section that erases the data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070271426 - Method and storage system for accessing data using a differential snapshot: A method of managing data by a storage system having first and second volumes according to a command from a server computer, including receiving a data access command from the server computer; specifying a data area that is designated in the data access command and reading data in the data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070271430 - Computer systems, management computers and storage system management method: A computer includes a management computer connected to a host computer, first and second primary storage systems, first and second secondary storage systems, a primary external storage system connected to the first and second primary storage systems and a secondary external storage system connected to the first and second secondary... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070271428 - Method and apparatus of continuous data backup and access using virtual machines: A continuous data backup and access method/system using virtual machines is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating a virtual machine associated with a backup module based on attributes of an application server when the application server is connected to a network having the backup module, continuously capturing any... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070271431 - Snapshot mechanism and method thereof: A snapshot mechanism and a method thereof used in a data processing system are provided to backup snapshot data. The snapshot mechanism includes a snapshot storage unit and a buffer storage unit, wherein the snapshot storage unit is used as a unit for storing data generated after a target storage... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070271429 - Storage system and method of producing recovery volume: There is provided a snapshot management table replication section for replicating the management table for the snapshot corresponding to the snapshot journal closest to the recovery point before the recovery point journal corresponding to the designated recovery volume when making the recovery volume and a recovery volume production section for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070271432 - Facilitating use of storage access keys to access storage: Use of storage access keys is facilitated to enable flexible control of storage access. Any selected storage access key is usable to access storage. Storage access keys may be specified in user registers and can override storage access keys indicated in system registers.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070271433 - Information management device and information management method: A memory space in an IC card is used in an effective manner. To this end, various procedures are provided. They include a procedure of dividing the memory space of the IC card into a plurality of memory areas, a procedure of releasing a memory area produced by the division,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070271434 - Computer system: A migration destination storage creates an expansion device for virtualizing a migration source logical unit. A host computer accesses an external volume by way of an access path of a migration destination logical unit→a migration destination storage→a migration source storage→and an external volume. After destaging all dirty data accumulated in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070271435 - Method and system for controlling memory accesses to memory modules having a memory hub architecture: A computer system includes a memory hub controller coupled to a plurality of memory modules. The memory hub controller includes a memory request queue that couples memory requests and corresponding request identifier to the memory modules. Each of the memory modules accesses memory devices based on the memory requests and... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070271436 - Method and apparatus for allocating disc space for recording files: A method and apparatus for allocating disc space for recording files, the method including: detecting one or more first sets, each comprising one or more empty sections of the disc that are larger than a predetermined reference value; detecting one or more second sets, each comprising one or more empty... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070271438 - Apparatus and method for partitioning hard disk without reboot: An apparatus and method for partitioning a hard disk drive (HDD), more particularly an apparatus and method for partitioning the HDD into a desired number of partitions of a desired size without requiring a reboot once user registration has been completed. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives user... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070271437 - Intelligent system for determination of optimal partition size in a build to order environment: An intelligent system for determining an optimal partition size on an information handling system. The system provides customers with an improved customer experience by offering a partition that is sized only as large as needed according to optional/locked/trial data downloaded for that system.... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070271439 - Method and device for managing a memory access look-up table: A method for constituting a look-up table of logic addresses and physical addresses of blocks of a memory is provided. The memory saving for each block a state of the block, and for each used block the logic address of the block, the method involving: reading the state of each... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070266198 - Method of managing a distributed storage system: The invention describes a method of managing a distributed storage system (1) comprising a number of storage devices (D, D1, D2, D3, . . . , Dn) on a network (N) wherein, in an election process to elect one of the storage devices (D, D), D2, D3, . . .... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070266199 - Virtual address cache and method for sharing data stored in a virtual address cache: A virtual address cache comprising a comparator arranged to receive a virtual address for addressing data associated with a task and a memory, wherein the comparator is arranged to make a determination as to whether data associated with the received virtual address is stored in the memory based upon an... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070266201 - Increasing the memory performance of flash memory devices by writing sectors simultaneously to multiple flash memory devices: In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory storage system for storing information organized in sectors within a nonvolatile memory bank is disclosed. The memory bank is defined by sector storage locations spanning across one or more rows of a nonvolatile memory device, each the sector including a user... Agent: Law Office Of Imam

20070266202 - Memory controller, flash memory system, and control method of flash memory: A flash memory stores a boot program of a host system and its backup program. A memory controller determines whether or not the boot program is stored properly in the flash memory when the host system is to be activated. The memory controller reads out the boot program in a... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070266200 - Methods of end of life calculation for non-volatile memories: A system and methods are given for providing information on the amount of life remaining for a memory having a limited lifespan, such as a flash memory card. For example, it can provide a user with the amount of the memory's expected remaining lifetime in real time units (i.e., hours... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20070266203 - Storage control method and system for performing backup and/or restoration: A second storage system (SS2) comprises a plurality of tapes, a first storage device capable of performing random access at a rate higher than the tapes, and a virtual storage device emulating the first storage device. A first storage system (SS1) comprises a second storage device and a third storage... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070266204 - Storage system comprising a plurality of tape media: A plurality of virtual disks that emulate disk devices and a controller for controlling data access commands from a host are provided. The controller reserves a disk space on one or more disk devices with respect to a designated virtual disk among the plurality of virtual disks, reads data to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070266205 - System and method for customization of network controller behavior, based on application-specific inputs: A system and method for providing application-specific configuration data for a network controller. A plurality of user-specific network requirements are generated. The plurality of user-specific network requirements are programmed into a reprogrammable memory located in the network controller. The network controller is powered-up. The plurality of user-specific network requirements are... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070266206 - Scatter-gather intelligent memory architecture for unstructured streaming data on multiprocessor systems: A scatter/gather technique optimizes unstructured streaming memory accesses, providing off-chip bandwidth efficiency by accessing only useful data at a fine granularity, and off-loading memory access overhead by supporting address calculation, data shuffling, and format conversion.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070266207 - Replacement pointer control for set associative cache and method: A set associative cache includes a plurality of sets, where each set has a plurality of ways. The set associative cache has a plurality of replacement pointers where each set of the plurality of sets has a corresponding replacement pointer within the plurality of replacement pointers, and the corresponding replacement... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070266208 - Apparatus and method of setting rights object mapping table: An apparatus and a method are provided for setting a rights object mapping table. The apparatus for setting a rights object mapping table includes a transmitting module which transmits a rights object mapping table of a host device to a portable storage device, and a setting module which sets the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070266209 - Adapting rcu for real-time operating system usage: A system and method is provided to support immediate freeing of a designated element from memory. Following a process of designating an element for removal from a data-structure, conditional limitations are used to determine if immediate freeing of the element from memory is available. The conditional limitations include determining that... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070266210 - Method of overwriting data in write-once information storage medium and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus for write-once information storage medium: A method of overwriting data in a write-once information storage medium and a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor. In the data overwriting method, a command to overwrite new data in a first area of the write-once information storage medium where data has already been recorded is issued. Then, the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070266211 - Computer system and storage system and volume assignment method: There is provided a computer system which can implement ease of transition to a standby state caused by power-off of a volume and ease of recovery from a standby state while maintaining access performance. A computer system including a storage system (200) having one or more disk units (220) and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070266212 - Data transfer method and information processing apparatus: In a system for storing data as a backup purpose to a separate storage apparatus, data of a copy source is matched with data of a copy destination in a predetermined time. A host computer attaches an identifier to a write request and then transmits the resulting write request to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070266213 - Storage system and back-up method for storage system: The present invention provides a storage system whereby it is also possible to back up the generational management information of a copy source disk array device. The disk array device of the primary site manages back-up data of a main volume, in a plurality of generations, by means of differential... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070266214 - Computer system having memory protection function: A computer system for preventing secret data in a memory area from being erased, altered or leaked due to a buffer overflow attack and the like comprises a memory map circuit for storing an access control memory map which defines whether the CPU has an access right for executing a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070266215 - Computer system for managing number of writes for storage medium and control method therefor: Provided is a storage medium management system, in which when the same data as that stored in a first physical storage area is stored in a second physical storage area, a storage system connected to a host computer compares the number of remaining rewritable times for the first physical storage... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070266216 - Data reallocation among storage systems: The present invention provides techniques, including a method and system, for relocating data between storage systems. In one embodiment of the present invention a host collects usage information from a plurality of storage systems, and determines the relocation destination LU for data stored in the LU to be relocated. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070266218 - Storage system and storage control method for the same: At least one storage area that can be allocated to a virtual volume is pooled, and upon access from the host system to the virtual volume, a storage area in the pool is allocated to the virtual volume. At this time, upon access from the host system exceeding a limit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070266220 - Non-volatile memory storing critical data in a gaming machine: A method and apparatus of dynamically storing critical data of a gaming machine by allocating and deallocating memory space in a gaming machine is disclosed. One or more embodiments describe downloading or removing a new game to a gaming machine such that all existing critical data in NV-RAM memory is... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070266217 - Selective cache line allocation instruction execution and circuitry: A processing system and method performs allocation of memory cache lines in response to a cache write miss. A processor receives a plurality of data processing instructions. A first store instruction for storing data in a system memory at a predetermined address is decoded by decoding a first specifier within... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070266219 - Storage control apparatus capable of analyzing volume information and a control method thereof: A storage control apparatus capable of analyzing volume information and a control method thereof is provided. The present storage device controller comprises a volume information analysis module, volume information memory, a display device interface and a power regulation circuit to display the volume information on the display device through the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070266221 - Data recording device and goods-processing apparatus comprising same: A data recording device is provided in which FAT and directory data, which are file managing information, are protected, whereby, during a restart, the FAT and directory data can be restored to a state that was in effect directly before a file update or another file operation even when a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070266222 - Method and system for generating addresses for a processor: A method for generating addresses for a processor is provided. The addresses are for use by an application that may be executed by the processor. The application comprises a plurality of instructions, and each instruction comprises at least one line. The method includes storing a plurality of predetermined addresses and,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070260807 - Address information managing system, management apparatus, processing apparatus and address book updating method: In a communication system in which a plurality of processing apparatuses are communicably connected to one another over a network, a processing apparatuses has an update request issuing unit issuing an update request containing address information to be updated in order to update an address book and an address book... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070260808 - Remotely controllable media distribution device: A portable storage device having a memory and a wireless remote control receiver is equipped for connection to a digital content player, which is controllable by a wireless remote control transmitter. The memory stores digital content data. The remote control transmitter communicates with the remote control receiver to play the... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070260806 - Storage system: In a computer system including a plurality of data storage apparatuses and a management computer, a given data storage apparatus, upon receipt of a control request for a local data storage apparatus from a management computer, accesses the hierarchical relation information between the storage areas in the local data storage... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070260809 - Communication between image-related apparatus and information apparatus: When there are very many images stored in a memory card, a time after a computer and a digital camera have been logically connected with each other until the computer and the camera answers a user becomes extremely long. When the digital camera caches the information of a file stored... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070260812 - Programming method for write buffer and double word flash programming: A method and system for implementing buffer programming of flash devices during in-circuit testing is described. Some flash device can implement buffer programming, but the ICT is not capable of supporting this application. By creating a file for buffer programming of flash devices that has the same number of bits... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070260813 - Apparatus for controlling access to non-volatile memory: An apparatus for controlling data access to non-volatile memory is provided, including a micro-controller and at least a memory controller. The micro-controller includes a data/address bus and a plurality of control pins. The micro-controller controls the data access. The memory controller includes a flash memory controller, a FIFO buffer and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070260810 - System and method for caching sequential programs: Methods and related computer program products, systems, and devices for using a NAND flash as a program ROM are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070260811 - Systems and methods for measuring the useful life of solid-state storage devices: A non-volatile solid-state storage subsystem, such as a non-volatile memory device, maintains usage statistics reflective of the wear state, and thus the remaining useful life, of the subsystem's memory array. A host system reads the usage statistics information, or data derived therefrom, from the subsystem to evaluate the subsystem's remaining... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070260814 - Multi-level content addressable memory: A multi-level content addressable memory (CAM) architecture compresses out much of the redundancy encountered in the search space of a single CAM, particularly for flow-based lookups in a network. Destination and source address may be associated with internal equivalence classes independently in one level of the multi-level CAM architecture, while... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070260815 - Background processing of data in a storage system: A method for processing data on a particular storage device in a plurality of storage devices is disclosed. A system and a computer program product for processing data on a particular storage device in a plurality of storage devices are also disclosed. All the storage devices from among the plurality... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070260816 - Raid management apparatus, raid management method, and computer product: In a first management unit for a redundant array of independent disks (RAID management-unit), a shared-class setting unit receives a shared-class setting command, for example, from a host computer. If the shared-class setting command includes information about the first RAID management unit and a second RAID management unit, a shared... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070260817 - Method for reading a multilevel cell in a non-volatile memory device: A non-volatile memory device has a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells. The array can operate in either a multilevel cell or single level cell mode and each cell has a lower page and an upper page of data. The memory device has a data latch for storing... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Kenneth W. Bolvin

20070260818 - Power-performance modulation in caches using a smart least recently used scheme: The number of ways in an N-way set associative sequential cache is modulated to trade power and performance. Way selection is restricted during the allocation based on address so that only a subset of the N-ways is used for a range of addresses allowing the N-ways that are not in... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070260819 - Complier assisted victim cache bypassing: A method for compiler assisted victim cache bypassing including: identifying a cache line as a candidate for victim cache bypassing; conveying a bypassing-the-victim-cache information to a hardware; and checking a state of the cache line to determine a modified state of the cache line, wherein the cache line is identified... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20070260820 - Demand-based error correction: A technique for demand-based error correction. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a technique to reduce storage overhead of cache memories containing error correction codes (ECC) while maintaining substantially the same performance of the cache.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20070260821 - Dram remote access cache in local memory in a distributed shared memory system: In one embodiment, a memory controller for a node in a multi-node computer system comprises logic and a control unit. The logic is configured to determine if an address corresponding to a request received by the memory controller on an intranode interconnect is a remote address or a local address.... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070260822 - Sharing memory resources of wireless portable electronic devices: It is not uncommon for two or more wireless-enabled devices to spend most of their time in close proximity to one another. For example, a person may routinely carry a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a portable digital audio/video player, or a cellphone and a PDA, or a smartphone and... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070260823 - Method and apparatus for testing multi-core microprocessors: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for testing multi-core microprocessors. A test process initiates testing on communication bus interfaces associated with a set of processor cores on the multiprocessor in which the communication bus interfaces are disabled and wherein the testing uses a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070260829 - Method and apparatus for processing a sequential file: A method and apparatus for processing a sequential file stored in a block-type memory device. It has surprisingly been found out that by storing metadata (106) associated with the sequential file in that memory block of the block-type memory device which contains an ending location (104) of payload data (103),... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070260828 - Method and apparatus for scrubbing memory: Method and apparatus to scrub memory is disclosed. A patrol request, for example a read/write request, may be raised to the memory command scheduler in an out of order memory controller to scrub the memory. The patrol read/write request may be raised as and when patrol interval timer expires. The... Agent: Jerray Wei C/o Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070260824 - Method for memory page management: A method for memory page management, suitable for managing data stored in several memory blocks is disclosed, which includes the following steps. First, multiple pages is recorded in a first register. When a request for reading data is received, whether the data is stored in those memory blocks is determined.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070260826 - Compare, swap and store facility with no external serialization: A compare, swap and store facility is provided that does not require external serialization. A compare and swap operation is performed using an interlocked update operation. If the comparison indicates equality, a store operation is performed. The compare, swap and store operations are performed as a single unit of operation.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070260827 - Method to support heterogeneous memories: A method and apparatus is described herein for supporting heterogeneous local memories. A resource affinity table includes an entry for each local memory mapped into an address space. Each entry associating the corresponding local memory with a logical distance, such as a domain number. During runtime thread scheduling, memory operations,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070260825 - Providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces. An address format is used in an operating system to address storage space in a storage device comprising a first region and a second... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070260831 - Converting physical machines to virtual machines: Physical (or prior virtual) machine volumes can be converted to virtual machines at a virtual machine host while the physical machines are running. In one implementation, a volume shadow copy service can be used to create an application (and/or file system)-consistent snapshot of one or more physical machine volumes while... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070260832 - Data processing system: A data processing system has a plurality of storage systems. In this system, data replication is performed at high speed and efficiency while maintaining data integrity. In addition, when failure has occurred in a configuration element, the time necessary to resume the data replication is reduced. In accordance with an... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070260830 - Distributed maintenance of snapshot copies by a primary processor managing metadata and a secondary processor providing read-write access to a production dataset: A primary processor manages metadata of a production dataset and a snapshot copy, while a secondary processor provides concurrent read-write access to the primary dataset. The secondary processor determines when a first write is being made to a data block of the production dataset, and in this case sends a... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070260833 - Storage controller and data management method: Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control device as to whether or not yet to be transferred data that has not been remote copied from the primary storage control device to the secondary storage control device... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070260835 - Storage controlling device of disk array device and redundancy restoring method: A storage controlling device controlling a storage device having a secondary storage unit for backup and a primary storage unit including a plurality of storing units in a redundant configuration, comprises a unit determining whether a storing unit not in a redundant configuration exists within the primary storage unit and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070260834 - Systems and methods for migrating components in a hierarchical storage network: System and methods for selectively or automatically migrating resources between storage operation cells are provided. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a management component within the storage operation system may monitor system operation and migrate components from storage operation cell to another to facilitate failover recovery, promote load... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070260837 - Method of dynamic memory management for a portable data storage device: A method of dynamic memory management for a portable data storage device having a semiconductor memory includes: a) providing a state-changeable label used for setting an access state of a data storing zone of the semiconductor memory, the label being in one of a first state indicating access to data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070260838 - Method and apparatus for secure context switching in a system including a processor and cached virtual memory: A method and a secure mode controller are provided for controlling context switching between secure and user modes in a processing system including a processor and a memory management unit. The method comprises monitoring the memory management unit to detect a non-cache access to an entry point address that contains... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070260836 - Methods and apparatus for providing a read access control system associated with a flash device: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a read access control system associated with a flash device are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070260840 - Data-migration method: A method of migrating data from an old storage subsystem to a new storage subsystem in a data processing system which comprises host computers and storage subsystems. There is provided a route-changing phase before the data is migrated from the old storage subsystem to the new storage subsystem. In the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070260839 - Migrating data that is subject to access by input/output devices: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for migrating data accessible by devices using direct memory access. A request is received to migrate data. The data is migrated from a source page to a destination page in response to the request to migrate... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070260841 - Memory module with reduced access granularity: A memory module having reduced access granularity. The memory module includes a substrate having signal lines thereon that form a control path and first and second data paths, and further includes first and second memory devices coupled in common to the control path and coupled respectively to the first and... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070260843 - Memory tuning for garbage collection and central processing unit (cpu) utilization optimization: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to load balancing in an enterprise environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for garbage collection sensitive load balancing. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for memory tuning for garbage collection and CPU... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070260842 - Pre-allocation and hierarchical mapping of data blocks distributed from a first processor to a second processor for use in a file system: In a data processing system, a first processor pre-allocates data blocks for use in a file system at a later time when a second processor needs data blocks for extending the file system. The second processor selectively maps the logical addresses of the pre-allocated blocks so that when the pre-allocated... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070260844 - Memory bus encoding: Encoding of logical addresses LA upon an off-chip memory bus 22 is performed to produce encoded addresses EA. The portion of the logical address encoded LA [9:3] does not include the least significant bits LA [2:0]. The number of bits LA [2:0] which are unencoded is chosen to correspond to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070260845 - Memory controller, flash memory system, and method of controlling operation for data exchange between host system and flash memory: There is disclosed a controller included in a flash memory system attachable to a memory interface of a host system. The controller performs a process for minimizing the maximum number of defective blocks to be classified into each zone, by using a plurality of replacement tables or a plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070260846 - Methods of prefetching data in data storage systems: The present invention relates to a cache memory management system suitable for use with snapshot applications. The system includes a cache directory including a hash table, hash table elements, cache line descriptors, and cache line functional pointers, and a cache manager running a hashing function that converts a request for... Agent: Robert Moll

20070255887 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus, and information recording medium: In an information recording, a first data processor divides input data into a plurality of frames so as to arrange the plurality of frames for each unit block. The unit block is a unit of error-correction with respect to the input data and the frames include first identification information, respectively.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070255888 - Method and apparatus for managing input data buffer of mp3 decoder: A method for managing a memory is provided. The memory includes M memory units and is used for temporarily storing at least one audio frame in an audio bit stream. The audio bit stream includes N audio frames. The ith audio frame in the audio bit stream includes an ith... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070255890 - Flash memory apparatus and access method to flash memory: There is provided a flash memory apparatus for storing data aggregate having a plurality of types of data in and reproduce the data aggregate from a flash memory via a plurality of ports. The flash memory apparatus includes a plurality of access request units configure to request to write data... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070255892 - Method and device for writing to a flash memory: For NAND flash devices, two specific bounds for the program time are defined in the data sheets: a typical program time, during which more than 50% of all pages are programmed, and a maximum program time. Reduction of the maximum program time to an effective program time is possible using... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070255891 - High-speed controller for phase-change memory peripheral device: Peripheral devices store data in non-volatile phase-change memory (PCM). PCM cells have alloy resistors with high-resistance amorphous states and low-resistance crystalline states. The peripheral device can be a Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD) card. A PCM controller accesses PCM memory devices. Various routines that execute on a CPU in the PCM... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20070255889 - Non-volatile memory device and method of operating the device: Disclosed is a non-volatile memory device and methods of operating the device. According to some embodiments of the disclosed invention, there is provided a method and apparatus for disturb wear leveling where data may be moved from a first sector to another sector.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070255893 - Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device is disclosed, which comprises a memory cell portion including at least one memory cell configured to store n levels (n is 3 or more), a bit line connected to one end of the memory cell portion, a data input/output circuit, and a data circuit which... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070255894 - Vector processor: A vector processing system provides high performance vector processing using a System-On-a-Chip (SOC) implementation technique. One or more scalar processors (or cores) operate in conjunction with a vector processor, and the processors collectively share access to a plurality of memory interfaces coupled to Dynamic Random Access read/write Memories (DRAMs). In... Agent: Richard E. Hessel

20070255896 - Management of memory refresh power consumption: Embodiments include a system, an apparatus, a device, and a method. The apparatus includes a processor, a dynamic memory, and a hardware-implemented memory control circuit. The hardware-implemented control circuit includes a control circuit for establishing an extended refresh period of the dynamic memory based at least in part on a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070255895 - Periodically and empirically determined memory refresh intervals: Embodiments include a system, a memory controller, an apparatus, a device, and a method. An embodiment provides a device that includes a memory that requires a periodic refresh and having a nominal refresh period, and a processor operably coupled with the memory. The device also includes a hardware-implemented control circuit... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070255897 - Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating physical disk request scheduling: A computer program product is disclosed for facilitating physical disk request scheduling. The apparatus is configured to queue disk requests onto a work queue; assign a priority identifier to each disk request in the work queue according to the relative importance of each disk request; determine a ranking index or... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070255898 - Storage device using nonvolatile flash memory and control method thereof: A write medium is selected so as to realize the fastest operation after data including a write command has been received from the host device. A storage device comprises a host interface, a cache memory interface, a hard disk interface, a flash memory interface, a command analyzing section which analyzes... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070255900 - Sas raid head: An SAS RAID head is provided to connect between at least one initiator and at least one storage device. It is a connection head possessed of the RAID function. The SAS RAID head comprises at least one SVC (or a SVC pair), a cooling module, a power supply, and/or an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070255899 - Storage system and method for controlling storage system: A storage system includes a plurality of host connection control units 10 connected to host computers; a plurality of drive control units 12 connected to disk drives 13; and a plurality of 4 by 4 switching units 11 located between each of the host connection control units 10 and each... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070255901 - Memory card, access device, and processing method of memory card: Each of memory cards can have a different type and can be in a plurality of statuses. The memory cards are managed by a file system and data is read/written from/to the memory cards via an access device. Each of the memory cards has a recording area in which data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070255902 - System, method and storage medium for providing a serialized memory interface with a bus repeater: A packetized cascade memory system including a plurality of memory assemblies, a memory bus including multiple segments, a bus repeater module and a segment level sparing module. The bus repeater module is in communication with two or more of the memory assemblies via the memory bus. The segment level sparing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070255903 - Device, system and method of accessing a memory: Devices, systems and methods of accessing a memory. For example, an apparatus includes: at least one buffer to store a data line read from a memory; and gatherer to store at least a portion of said data line and at least a portion of a previously read data line stored... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070255904 - System for handling memory requests and method thereof: A system and methods are shown for handling multiple target memory requests. Memory read requests generated by a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) client are received by a PCI bus controller. The PCI bus controller passes the memory request to a memory controller used to access main memory. The memory controller... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070255905 - Method and apparatus for caching variable length instructions: An instruction cache controller uses supplemental memory to store a redundant copy of cached instruction data corresponding to a cache boundary position, and thereby enables subsequent single cache access retrieval of an instruction that crosses that boundary position. In one or more embodiments, the cache controller duplicates instruction data for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070255906 - Coherency directory updating: Coherency directory updating is provided in a multiprocessor computing system. A plurality of memory resources have a directory, and are operably connected to an interconnect fabric. A cell is operably connected to the interconnect fabric. The cell has a cache including an entry for each of a plurality of coherency... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070255908 - Speculative directory lookup for sharing classification: In one embodiment, a node for a multi-node computer system comprises a coherence directory configured to store coherence states for coherence units in a local memory of the node and a coherence controller configured to receive a coherence request for a requested coherence unit. The requested coherence unit is included... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070255907 - Value-based memory coherence support: In one embodiment, a processor comprises a coherence trap unit and a trap logic coupled to the coherence trap unit. The coherence trap unit is also coupled to receive data accessed in response to the processor executing a memory operation. The coherence trap unit is configured to detect that the... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070255909 - System and method for garbage collection in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems: A system and method for garbage collection in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems are provided. In some illustrative embodiments, garbage collection operations are distributed across a plurality of the processors in the heterogeneous multiprocessor system. Portions of a global mark queue are assigned to processors of the heterogeneous multiprocessor system along with... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070255911 - Method of optimising writing by a master block into a fifo type interfacing device between this master block and a slave block, and the corresponding computer program product: A method for optimising writing by a master block into an interfacing device between the master block and a slave block. The method includes a step for transformation of a code into assembler language, done before the code in machine language is obtained and including the following steps: transformation of... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070255910 - Method of reflecting on another device an addition to a browser cache on a handheld electronic device, and associated device: An improved handheld electronic device includes an Application Programming Interface (API) that generates various notifications in certain circumstances. The handheld electronic device provides an improved method of employing the notifications to enable another device to reflect an addition to a browser cache on the handheld electronic device.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070255912 - Systems and methods for protecting customer secrets during vendor troubleshooting: Systems, methods, and computer products for protecting information during troubleshooting are provided. A dumping mechanism includes marking at least one of a plurality of memory regions in the computer-readable medium as non-dumpable, initiating a core dump, determining which memory regions of the plurality regions are non-dumpable, and dumping the contents... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070255915 - Methods, systems, and products for recording media: Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for recording media. An input is received via a user interface to record media. An entry is created in a recording schedule to record the media. The recording schedule is sent to a restoration server, such that the recording schedule is mirrored to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070255914 - Storage system, remote copy and management method therefor: A copy source storage controller received write data added with a time and issued from a host computer transfers the write data with the time to a copy destination storage controller. If there are a plurality of copy destination storage controllers, a representative copy destination storage controller compares times of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070255916 - Data duplication control method: In the present invention, when there is a change in a group of volumes managed by a host computer, data duplication processing is immediately carried out against the changed volume. The host computer 10 comprises a volume-managing portion (unit) 12, a data duplication-controlling portion(unit) 11 which executes the data duplication... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070255913 - Methods, systems, and products for recording media: Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for recording media. An input is received via a user interface to record media. An entry is created in a recording schedule to record the media. The recording schedule is sent to a restoration server, such that the recording schedule is mirrored to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070255918 - Image reading apparatus, host apparatus and image reading system: An image reading apparatus includes: a reading unit; a memory interface unit; a permission information obtaining unit; a permission determining unit; and a data recording unit. The reading unit reads an image. An external memory is removably connected to the memory interface unit and stores permission information. The permission information... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070255917 - Host device, storage device, and method for accessing storage device: A host device transmits a command from a command transmission unit (101a) along a predetermined command sequence. A storage device (2) receives the command in a command reception unit (202a). An access determination unit (202c) determines the sequence of the command transmitted from the host device (1) and determines that... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070255919 - Memory controller device having timing offset capability: A memory controller is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the memory controller may comprise a first transmitter to output first and second write commands synchronously with respect to a clock signal, a second transmitter to output first data using a first timing offset such that the first data arrives... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070255922 - Storage resource management system, method, and computer: A storage resource management system includes a storage apparatus having one or more pieces of volumes and a management computer. The management computer holds volume characteristic information and use field sort volume information. The management computer executes a single use field portion allocating sequence for allocating the use fields to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070255921 - Methods of converting traditional volumes into flexible volumes: A filer converts a traditional volume to a flexible volume by: creating an aggregate on storage devices other than the storage devices of the traditional volume; on the aggregate, creating a flexible volume large enough to store metadata describing files residing on the traditional volume; on the flexible volume, creating... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070255920 - Synchronization of a virtual storage system and an actual storage system: A virtual storage system includes a storage subsystem having virtual storage devices to emulate physical storage devices of an actual storage system. The virtual storage system has a controller to detect a status change of a particular physical storage device in the actual storage system. The status change includes at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070255923 - Multi-component processor: A processor having a limited amount of local memory for storing code and/or data utilizes a program stored in external memory. The program stored in external memory is configured into blocks which can be loaded individually into the local memory for execution. Queuing the individual blocks of code allows the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070255925 - Method for allocating storage area to virtual volume: In a system where a storage device is coupled to a computer, a storage area in the storage device is efficiently allocated to the computer. The system comprises a virtualization apparatus to be coupled to the virtualization apparatus. The virtualization apparatus, responding to a request from the computer, issues a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070255924 - Processor and method for altering address translation: In a processor having an address translation table, a method includes providing a logical address and control signal. When the control signal has a first value, a first physical address is provided corresponding to the logical address, and when the control signal has a second value, a second physical address... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070255926 - Radio frequency voltage controlled oscillators: An apparatus for file system management includes a non-volatile storage device, a volatile memory device, and a processing unit. The non-volatile storage device stores a file containing actual file content. The volatile memory device storing physical file handle context comprises a pointer to the beginning of the actual file content.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070255927 - Data access in a data processing system: A data processing apparatus having a plurality of memories is provided in which address generation logic (109) outputs to at least one of the plurality of memories a target memory address corresponding to the data to be accessed. Target memory prediction logic (113) outputs a prediction indicating in which one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070255928 - Processor: The processor 100 includes a register file 110 having plural registers, and a tag value generation circuit 102 which generates a tag value indicating data attributes. Each of the registers has a data field 112 for holding data, and a tag field 111 for holding a tag value. When executing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C