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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory May archived by USPTO category 05/11

20110125950 - Systems and methods for performing deduplicated data processing on tape: A method, computer management apparatus, and computer program product are provided for processing data stored on a sequential storage media within a computational computing environment. A block reference table and most often read blocks are loaded from a modified tape format of a sequential storage media into an internal memory... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110125951 - Distributed storage through a volume device architecture: A volume manager I/O method and system. The method includes determining a storage extent mapping of storage functionality of a plurality of storage devices and generating a logical disk extent based on the storage extent mapping. The logical disk extent is exported to a volume device component that is communicatively... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20110125952 - Maintaining processor resources during architectural events: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes switching between a first address space and a second address space, determining if the second address space exists in a list of address spaces; and maintaining entries of the first address space in a translation buffer after the switching. In... Agent:

20110125954 - Data storage method for flash memory, and flash memory controller and flash memory storage system using the same: A data storage method for storing data into a flash memory chip is provided. The flash memory chip has a plurality of physical addresses, and these physical addresses include a plurality of fast physical addresses and a plurality of slow physical addresses. In the data storage method, the usage rate... Agent: Phison Electronics Corp.

20110125959 - E/p durability by using a sub-range of a full programming range: A NAND flash memory system is controlled by determining whether to change a value of a voltage threshold. The voltage threshold is associated with an erase operation to a portion of a NAND flash memory chip. In the event it is determined to change the value of the voltage threshold,... Agent: Link_a_media Devices Corporation

20110125953 - Flash memory organization for reduced failure rate: A memory system includes logic to distribute bits of a data word from a first memory across multiple pages of a flash memory.... Agent: Agiga Tech Inc.

20110125955 - Flash storage device, data storage system, and data writing method: The invention provides a flash storage device. In one embodiment, the flash storage device comprises a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory comprises a plurality of storage units for data storage, wherein the total capacity of each of the storage units is equal to a storage unit capacity.... Agent: Silicon Motion, Inc.

20110125958 - Semiconductor memory card access apparatus, a computer-readable recording medium, an initialization method, and a semiconductor memory card: A predetermined number of erasable blocks positioned at a start of a volume area in a semiconductor memory card are provided so as to include volume management information. A user area following the volume management information includes a plurality of clusters. A data length NOM of an area from a... Agent:

20110125957 - System for accessing non-volatile memory: Accessing a non-volatile memory array is described, including receiving a first data and a memory address associated with the first data, writing the first data to the non-volatile memory array at the memory address of the first data without erasing a second data stored in the non-volatile memory array at... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20110125956 - Techniques for multi-memory device lifetime management: Techniques are provided for identifying at least one aspect associated with a lifetime of each of a plurality of memory devices. Further, data is moved between the plurality of memory devices, based on the at least one aspect.... Agent: Sandforce Inc.

20110125960 - Fpga co-processor for accelerated computation: A co-processor module for accelerating computational performance includes a Field Programmable Gate Array (“FPGA”) and a Programmable Logic Device (“PLD”) coupled to the FPGA and configured to control start-up configuration of the FPGA. A non-volatile memory is coupled to the PLD and configured to store a start-up bitstream for the... Agent: Drc Computer Corporation

20110125961 - Dram control method and the dram controller utilizing the same: A Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) controller for controlling read and write operations of a DRAM includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores a first predetermined size of data including data written into the DRAM in response to a previous partial write request, and stores... Agent: Via Technologies, Inc.

20110125962 - Map updating system and map updating program using dynamic cache memory: A map updating system includes: an update processing unit for performing update processing by reading data required in the update processing from a cache area of a memory when the data are stored in the cache area and from a map database when the data are not stored in the... Agent: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

20110125965 - Direct attached storage system and method for implementing multiple simultaneous storage schemes: A direct attached storage (DAS) system configurable to simultaneously implement a plurality of data storage schemes, comprising one or more storage devices, a controller coupled to the storage devices for implementing and managing a plurality of data storage schemes on the storage devices, an I/O port for inputting data to... Agent:

20110125963 - Electronic device with data backup/restore capability: An electronic device with data backup/restore capability includes a connection port, an internal storage device, a storage device controller, a processor and a bridge circuit. The internal storage device is used for storing data. The storage device controller is coupled to the connection port and the internal storage device, for... Agent:

20110125964 - Virtual path storage system and control method for the same: Provided is a storage system having improved access performance. The storage system includes: a hard disk drive, and a storage controller for reading/writing data from/to the hard disk drive, the storage controller including: at least one interface connected to a host computer through a network; and a plurality of processors... Agent:

20110125967 - Interface system between a terminal and a smart card, method for same, and smart card applied to same: The present invention provides a system and method for interfacing between a terminal and a smart card, and a smart card applied to the same. In other words, by presenting the configuration including a terminal equipped with several device resources requested for interworking during the execution of the service applications... Agent: Sk Telecom. Co., Ltd

20110125966 - Multi-rank memory module that emulates a memory module having a different number of ranks: A transparent four rank memory module has a front side and a back side. The front side has a third memory rank stacked on a first memory rank. The back side has a fourth memory rank stacked on a second memory rank. An emulator coupled to the memory module activates... Agent: Smart Modular Technologies, Inc.

20110125968 - Architecture and method for cache-based checkpointing and rollback: A cache system to compare memory transactions while facilitating checkpointing and rollback is provided. The system includes at least one processor core including at least one cache operating in write-through mode, at least two checkpoint caches operating in write-back mode, a comparison/checkpoint logic, and a main memory. The at least... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110125969 - Cache memory control device, semiconductor integrated circuit, and cache memory control method: A cache memory control device includes cache memories shared by arithmetic processing units, buses shared by the arithmetic processing units to transfer data, an instruction execution unit that accesses the cache memories to execute an access instruction from the arithmetic processing unit, and transfers data from the cache memory to... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110125970 - Automated clipboard software: A clipboard software application running on a computer system that automatically selects at least one data item to be pasted to a target destination area upon determining at least one data item in the clipboard memory buffer is appropriate for pasting to the target destination area. A clipboard memory buffer... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110125971 - Shared upper level cache architecture: Various implementations of shared upper level cache architectures are disclosed.... Agent: Glitter Technology LLP

20110125972 - Information recording device and information recording method: In one embodiment, there is provided an information recording device that includes: a plurality of cache buffers on which writing is performed in response to an external write request; and a controller configured to determine, according to an LRU algorithm, which of the cache buffers writing should be performed on.... Agent:

20110125974 - Distributed symmetric multiprocessing computing architecture: Example embodiments of the present invention includes systems and methods for implementing a scalable symmetric multiprocessing (shared memory) computer architecture using a network of homogeneous multi-core servers. The level of processor and memory performance achieved is suitable for running applications that currently require cache coherent shared memory mainframes and supercomputers.... Agent:

20110125973 - System and method for performing dynamic mixed mode read validation in a software transactional memory: The transactional memory system described herein may apply a mix of read validation techniques to validate read operations (e.g., invisible reads and/or semi-visible reads) in different transactions, or to validate different read operations within a single transaction (including reads of the same location). The system may include mechanisms to dynamically... Agent:

20110125975 - Interleaving apparatuses and memory controllers having the same: An interleaving apparatus may include a first buffer unit configured to buffer input data in units having a size of a sector to generate sector unit data, an encoding unit configured to encode the sector unit data and generate a plurality of parity codes based on the encoding, a second... Agent:

20110125976 - Method of and system for mobile surveillance and event recording: A data-encoding system includes a source of unencoded data, and a first encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the first encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a first data rate. The data encoding system further includes a second... Agent:

20110125977 - Aligning data storage device partition to boundary of physical data sector: A method of aligning a partition of a data storage device to a boundary of a physical data sector is disclosed. The data storage device comprises a non-volatile memory comprising a plurality of physical data sectors, wherein each physical data sector comprises a plurality of logical data sectors. A partition... Agent:

20110125978 - Concurrent data processing using snapshot technology: A method for processing data using snapshots is provided. The method comprises generating a primary snapshot of data stored in a first storage medium, wherein the primary snapshot is a copy of the data stored in the first storage medium at a point in time; generating one or more secondary... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110125980 - Data backup system including a data protection component: A data backup system is provided for backing up data files from a data source and for securing those data files against accidental modification or deletion. The system comprises storage and a data protection component that includes an application programming interface defining a command set. The system can also comprise... Agent:

20110125979 - Migrating logical partitions: Methods, systems, and products for migrating logical partitions. The method may include dynamically discovering a destination system for migration; remotely creating an environment on the destination system for accepting, the runtime migration; and migrating a running logical partition from a source system to the destination system. The source system may... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110125981 - Content processing apparatus: A content processing apparatus includes a taker. A taker takes a plurality of partial contents in an internal memory. A first transferor transfers the plurality of partial contents taken by the taker to an external memory by each partial amount. A creator repeatedly creates link information representing a link state... Agent: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

20110125982 - Memory device, memory system having the same, and method of controlling the memory device: A memory controller includes a memory capacity setting circuit and an address selecting circuit. The memory capacity setting circuit is configured to set a valid memory capacity of a memory device based on a defective cell information signal, and generate a valid memory capacity signal based on the valid memory... Agent:

20110125983 - Processing system implementing variable page size memory organization using a multiple page per entry translation lookaside buffer: A processing system includes a page table including a plurality of page table entries. Each of the plurality of page table entries includes information for translating a virtual address page to a corresponding physical address page. The processing system also includes a translation lookaside buffer adapted to cache page table... Agent: Qnx Software Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110119426 - List based prefetch: A list prefetch engine improves a performance of a parallel computing system. The list prefetch engine receives a current cache miss address. The list prefetch engine evaluates whether the current cache miss address is valid. If the current cache miss address is valid, the list prefetch engine compares the current... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119427 - Symmetric live migration of virtual machines: A first least recently used map is generated for a set of memory pages of a first virtual machine. The first least recently used map includes metadata including memory page physical address location information. A first of the memory pages of the first virtual machine and the metadata for the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119435 - Flash memory storage system: A flash memory storage system has a plurality of flash memory devices comprising a plurality of flash memories, and a controller having an I/O processing control unit for accessing a flash memory device specified by a designated access destination in an I/O request received from an external device from among... Agent:

20110119436 - Flash memory system and data writing method thereof: Provided are a flash memory system and a data reading method thereof, the method including serially reading groups of data and parity codes corresponding to each of the respective groups from a page buffer; calculating the parity for each serially read group; checking for errors in each serially read group... Agent:

20110119431 - Memory system with read-disturb suppressed and control method for the same: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes NAND strings. Each of the NAND strings includes memory cells. The memory cells capable of holding data. The memory writing and reading data in units of a page corresponding to a set of the... Agent:

20110119433 - Method and apparatus for emulating byte wise programmable functionality into sector wise erasable memory: A method and system for emulating a byte-wise programmable memory in a sector-wise erasable memory, where emulating a byte-wise programmable memory in a sector-wise erasable memory is based on dividing the sector-wise erasable memory in a plurality of sectors, dividing each of the sectors into several memory locations suitable to... Agent: Sitel Semiconductor B.v.

20110119428 - Method of duplicating data to multiple random accessible storage devices: A method of duplicating data to multiple random accessible storage devices has steps of reading one segment of source data having multiple segments, continuously detecting newly-connected random accessible storage devices, duplicating same segments to all connected random accessible storage devices, stopping duplicating the source data to any random accessible storage... Agent: Vinpower Inc.

20110119430 - Methods for measuring usable lifespan and replacing an in-system programming code of a memory device, and data storage sysem using the same: A data storage system comprises a host and a flash memory device having a non-non-volatile memory. A controller of the flash memory device calculates an average erase count of the flash memory to obtaining a remaining period of time indicating usable lifespan of the flash memory device. The host obtains... Agent: Silicon Motion, Inc.

20110119429 - Nonvolatile memory controller and method for writing data to nonvolatile memory: The invention provides a nonvolatile memory controller. In one embodiment, the nonvolatile memory controller receives new data for writing a nonvolatile memory from a host, and comprises a signature calculating circuit, a signature buffer, a signature comparison circuit, a data comparison circuit, and a nonvolatile memory interface circuit. The signature... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110119432 - Nonvolatile memory devices having improved read performance resulting from data randomization during write operations: Memory devices include an array of non-volatile memory cells and a memory control circuit. The memory control circuit, which is electrically coupled to the array of non-volatile memory cells, includes a pseudo-random data coder/decoder circuit. This pseudo-random data coder/decoder circuit is configured to convert a first block of input data... Agent:

20110119434 - System and method for safely updating thin client operating system over a network: A method for updating a thin client image includes the steps of writing a service operating system (OS) from a network device to limited capacity memory of a thin client device, writing a large part of a new image from the network to the memory of the thin client in... Agent:

20110119438 - Flash memory file system: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a plurality of flash modules, wherein each of the flash modules comprises a cache memory; a flash memory; and a flash controller in communication with the cache memory and the flash memory; wherein the flash controller of a first one of the... Agent:

20110119437 - Sequentially written journal in a data store: Systems, methods, and computer storage media for storing and retrieving data from a data store in a distributed computing environment are provided. An embodiment includes receiving data at a data store comprising a sequential journal store, RAM, and a non-sequential target store. When RAM utilization is below a threshold, received... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110119440 - Dynamic programmable intelligent search memory: Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory derived using randomly accessible dynamic memory circuits that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being... Agent:

20110119439 - Spacing periodic commands to a volatile memory for increased performance and decreased collision: A periodic command spacing mechanism is provided for spacing periodic commands (e.g., refresh commands, ZQ calibration, etc.) to a volatile memory (e.g., SDRAM, DRAM, EDRAM, etc.) for increased performance and decreased collision. In one embodiment, periodic command requests are monitored and if a collision is detected between two or more... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119441 - Selective device access control: Various method, system, and computer program product embodiments for selective device access control in a data storage system are provided. In one such embodiment, a plurality of access groups associated with logical devices used to access the data storage system is initialized. Each of the plurality of access groups corresponds... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119442 - Non-volatile write cache for a data storage system: The present disclosure provides a data storage system. In one example, the data storage system includes a data storage media component having a plurality of data storage locations. A first set of the plurality of data storage locations are allocated for a main data storage area. The data storage system... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC

20110119443 - Apparatus and method for distributing writes asymmetrically among drives: An apparatus and method are disclosed for distributing writes asymmetrically. An asymmetric distribution module calculates an asymmetric distribution of writes for a plurality of drives. A write module writes data to each drive in accordance with the asymmetric distribution of writes.... Agent: Lenovo (singapore) Pte, Ltd.

20110119444 - Adaptive caching of data: Data access is facilitated by employing local caches and an adaptive caching strategy. Specific data is stored in each local cache and consistency is maintained between the caches. To maintain consistency, adaptive caching structures are used. The members of an adaptive caching structure are selected based on a sharing context,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119446 - Conditional load and store in a shared cache: A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for implementing load-reserve and store-conditional instructions in a multi-processor computing system. The computing system includes a multitude of processor units and a shared memory cache, and each of the processor units has access to the memory cache. In one embodiment, the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119445 - Heap/stack guard pages using a wakeup unit: A method and system for providing a memory access check on a processor including the steps of detecting accesses to a memory device including level-1 cache using a wakeup unit. The method includes invalidating level-1 cache ranges corresponding to a guard page, and configuring a plurality of wakeup address compare... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119447 - Method and apparatus for managing memory in a mobile electronic device: According to embodiments described in the specification, a method and apparatus for managing memory in a mobile electronic device are provided. The method comprises: receiving a request to install an application; receiving at least one indication of data intended to be maintained in a shared cache; determining, based on the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110119448 - Data store maintenance requests in interconnects: Interconnect circuitry for a data processing apparatus is disclosed. The interconnect circuitry is configured to provide data routes via which at least one initiator device may access at least one recipient device. The interconnect circuitry comprises: at least one input for receiving transaction requests from the initiator device(s); at least... Agent:

20110119449 - Application information cache: A request for application information can be received from an application running in a process. The application information can be requested from an information repository, and received back from the repository in a first format. The application information can be converted to a second format, and passed to the application... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110119450 - Multi-processor and apparatus and method for managing cache coherence of the same: A cache consistency management device according to example embodiments comprises a ping-pong monitoring unit monitoring a ping-pong migration sequence generated between a plurality of processors; a counting unit counting the number of successive generations of the ping-pong migration sequence in response to the monitoring result; and a request modifying unit... Agent:

20110119451 - Non-blocking data transfer via memory cache manipulation: A cache controller in a computer system is configured to manage a cache such that the use of bus bandwidth is reduced. The cache controller receives commands from a processor. In response, a cache mapping maintaining information for each block in the cache is modified. The cache mapping may include... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110119452 - hybrid transactional memory system (hybridtm) and method: A computer processing system having memory and processing facilities for processing data with a computer program is a Hybrid Transactional Memory multiprocessor system with modules 1 . . . n coupled to a system physical memory array, I/O devices via a high speed interconnection element. A CPU is integrated as... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110119453 - Method and system for implementing multi-controller systems: A method for implementing a high-availability system that includes a plurality of controllers that each includes a shared memory. The method includes storing in the shared memory, by each controller, status data related to each of a plurality of failure modes, and calculating, by each controller, an availability score based... Agent:

20110119454 - Display system for simultaneous displaying of windows generated by multiple window systems belonging to the same computer platform: A display system for simultaneous displaying of windows generated by a plurality of window systems belonging to the same desktop or laptop platform includes a master computer device with its display device and at least one slave computer device, a shared memory, an input means and an output means, as... Agent:

20110119455 - Methods of utilizing address mapping table to manage data access of storage medium without physically accessing storage medium and related storage controllers thereof: A method of managing data access of a storage medium includes establishing an address mapping table to record a physical address of a first data stored in the storage medium, where the physical address of the first data is mapped to a logical address of the first data; and when... Agent:

20110119457 - Computing system and method controlling memory of computing system: Provided is a computing system and method. The computing system may back up, based on an overlay scheme, a task of an internal memory in an external memory, and the task may be restored to the internal memory from the external memory. The computing system may include a first memory... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110119456 - Efficiency of hardware memory access using dynamically replicated memory: Dynamically replicated memory is usable to allocate new memory space from failed memory pages by pairing compatible failed memory pages to reuse otherwise unusable failed memory pages. Dynamically replicating memory involves detecting and recording memory faults, reclaiming failed memory pages for later use, recovering from detected memory faults, and scheduling... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110119458 - Relay device: In order to allow a user to backup data, a backup system is used to transfer data from an information terminal to a backup device via a relay device. The information terminal includes a storing unit storing the data to be backed up, and includes a communication unit transmitting the... Agent:

20110119459 - Snapshot system: A storage system including: a storage device which configures an original volume for storing data which is read/written by a host, a copy volume for storing a copy of the original volume at a predetermined timing, and a snapshot volume for storing a snapshot data which is a snapshot of... Agent:

20110119460 - Restricting access to object based storage: A method, in one embodiment, can include a server receiving a message to deactivate a partition key of an object based storage system. A token of the object based storage system is signed by the partition key. The object based storage system includes the server. Additionally, after receiving the message,... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20110119461 - File system quota and reservation: A method, in one embodiment, can include allowing storage allocation of data of a file system within an object based storage system. Furthermore, the method can include determining if storage allocation usage for the file system is below a threshold. If the storage allocation usage for the file system is... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20110119462 - Method for restoring and maintaining solid-state drive performance: A method of maintaining a solid-state drive so that free space within memory blocks of the drive becomes free usable space to the drive. The drive comprises cells organized in pages that are organized in memory blocks in which at least user files are stored. A defragmentation utility is executed... Agent: Ocz Technology Group, Inc.

20110119463 - Computing system and method controlling memory of computing system: Provided is a computing system having a hierarchical memory structure. When a data structure is allocated with respect to a task processed in the computing system, the data structure is divided and a portion of the data structure is allocated to a high speed memory of the hierarchical memory structure... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110119465 - Data processing system: The data processing system including: a memory block; a data-processing control block; a demultiplex-processing block; a multiplex-processing block; a decode-processing block; and an encode-processing block. In the system, the demultiplex-processing block, multiplex-processing block, decode-processing block, and encode-processing block each execute a process using memory regions in the memory block. During... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20110119464 - Data storage system comprising a mapping bridge for aligning host block size with physical block size of a data storage device: A data storage system is disclosed comprising a non-volatile memory and a first interface operable to receive a write command from a host, the write command comprising a host write data block having a host logical block size. A block mapping bridge divides the host write data block into a... Agent: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

20110119466 - Clearing selected storage translation buffer entries bases on table origin address: An instruction is provided to perform clearing of selected address translation buffer entries (TLB entries) associated with a particular address space, such as segments of storage or regions of storage. The buffer entries related to segment table entries or region table entries or ASCE addresses. The instruction can be implemented... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110113180 - Virtual system and method of analyzing operation of virtual system: A virtual system comprises hardware, a virtualization layer virtualizing the hardware, a virtual machine monitor, a user domain operating using the virtualized hardware, and a root domain operating using the virtualized hardware and managing the user domain. The virtual machine monitor analyzes an operation performed by the user domain in... Agent: Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook Univ

20110113182 - Devices, systems and methods for time-sensitive data and limited-persistent storage: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed which relate to devices utilizing time-sensitive memory storage. The time-sensitive memory storage acts as normal device memory, allowing the user of the device to store files or other data to it; however the information stored on the time-sensitive memory storage is automatically erased, based... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110113181 - System and method for updating a basic input/output system (bios): There is provided a system and method for updating a basic input output system (BIOS). An exemplary method comprises obtaining a BIOS update package comprising a BIOS image update, a BIOS Signature, and a plurality of Public Key regions, wherein each Public Key region comprises a Public Key area and... Agent:

20110113184 - Data backup method for a flash memory and controller and storage system using the same: A data backup method for backing up data temporarily stored in a cache memory of a flash memory storage device is provided, where the flash memory storage device has a plurality of physical units. The data backup method includes logically grouping a portion of the physical units into a data... Agent: Phison Electronics Corp.

20110113185 - Memory apparatus and memory controller for accessing non-volatile memory: A memory apparatus includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller, where the memory controller is coupled to the non-volatile memory and is utilized for accessing the non-volatile memory, and the memory controller and the non-volatile memory are positioned in two independent chips, respectively. When external data is intended to... Agent:

20110113188 - Memory card and host device thereof: A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.... Agent:

20110113183 - Method for managing a non-violate memory and computer readable medium thereof: A method for managing a non-violate memory is provided. The non-violate memory has a number of blocks, and each block has a number of sub-blocks. The method includes a number of steps. First, a last physical address is obtained. The last physical address corresponds to a sub-block which is close... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110113186 - Reducing erase cycles in an electronic storage device that uses at least one erase-limited memory device: A solution for reducing erase cycles in an electronic storage device that uses at least one erase-limited memory device is disclosed.... Agent: Bitmicro Networks, Inc.

20110113187 - Semiconductor device and method for controlling the same: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a NAND flash memory, an SRAM, and a controller. The NAND flash memory includes a plurality of blocks with a plurality of memory cells and a decoder which selects the blocks. The NAND flash memory is capable of erasing data in a... Agent:

20110113189 - Multiple processor system and method including multiple memory hub modules: A processor-based electronic system includes several memory modules arranged in first and second ranks. The memory modules in the first rank are directly accessed by any of several processors, and the memory modules in the second rank are accessed by the processors through the memory modules in the first rank.... Agent: Round Rock Research, LLC

20110113191 - Programmable intelligent search memory: Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed... Agent:

20110113190 - Secondary storage to reduce counter memory in flow tables: In one embodiment, a CAM overflow structure holds flow indices in a CAM and each CAM entry is associated with an overflow count value (OCV) entry holding an OCV. If counter in an primary flow-counter bank (PFCB) overflows when updated, the CAM is searched and, if the index of the... Agent: Cisco Technolgy, Inc.

20110113192 - Clustered storage system with external storage systems: A first storage system includes a first storage unit to provide storage volumes, a first storage controller, and a first memory to store a first control program to process an input/output request received by the first storage system. A second storage system includes a second storage unit to provide storage... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110113194 - Filesystem-aware block storage system, apparatus, and method: A filesystem-aware storage system locates and analyzes host filesystem data structures in order to determine storage usage of the host filesystem. To this end, the storage system might locate an operating system partition, parse the operating system partion to locate its data structures, and parse the operating system data structures... Agent: Data Robotics, Inc.

20110113193 - Storage system, data transfer method, and program: The storage system including a first disk array apparatus for providing first volumes for storing data sent from a host system; a second disk array apparatus for providing second volumes for storing back-up data of the first volumes; and a console terminal for operating the first disk array apparatus. The... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110113196 - Avoiding memory access latency by returning hit-modified when holding non-modified data: A microprocessor is configured to communicate with other agents on a system bus and includes a cache memory and a bus interface unit coupled to the cache memory and to the system bus. The bus interface unit receives from another agent coupled to the system bus a transaction to read... Agent: Via Technologies, Inc.

20110113197 - Queue arrays in network devices: A queue descriptor including a head pointer pointing to the first element in a queue and a tail pointer pointing to the last element in the queue is stored in memory. In response to a command to perform an enqueue or dequeue operation with respect to the queue, fetching from... Agent: Intel Corporation

20110113195 - Systems and methods for avoiding performance degradation due to disk fragmentation in a network caching device: Storage space on one or more hard disks of a network caching appliance is divided into a plurality S of stripes. Each stripe is a physically contiguous section of the disk(s), and is made up of a plurality of sectors. Content, whether in the form of objects or otherwise (e.g.,... Agent:

20110113198 - Selective searching in shared cache: The present invention discloses a method comprising: sending request for data to a memory controller; arranging the request for data by order of importance or priority; identifying a source of the request for data; if the source is an input/output device, masking off P ways in a cache; and allocating... Agent:

20110113200 - Methods and apparatuses for controlling cache occupancy rates: Embodiments of an apparatus for controlling cache occupancy rates are presented. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a controller and monitor logic. The monitor logic determines a monitored occupancy rate associated with a first program class. The first controller regulates a first allocation probability corresponding to the first program class,... Agent:

20110113199 - Prefetch optimization in shared resource multi-core systems: An apparatus and method is described herein for optimization to prefetch throttling, which potentially enhances performance, reduces power consumption, and maintains positive gain for workloads that benefit from prefetching. More specifically, the optimizations described herein allow for bandwidth congestion and prefetch accuracy to be taken into account as feedbacks for... Agent:

20110113201 - Garbage collection in a cache with reduced complexity: Garbage collection associated with a cache with reduced complexity. In an embodiment, a relative rank is computed for each cache item based on relative frequency of access and relative non-idle time of cache entry compared to other entries. Each item having a relative rank less than a threshold is considered... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110113202 - Cache flush based on idle prediction and probe activity level: A processing node tracks probe activity level associated with its cache. The processing node and/or processing system further predicts an idle duration. If the probe activity level increases above a threshold probe activity level, and the idle duration prediction is above a threshold idle duration threshold, the processing node flushes... Agent:

20110113203 - Reservation required transactions: A method for performing a transaction including a transaction head and a transaction tail, includes executing the transaction head, including executing at least one memory reserve instruction to reserve a transactional memory location that are accessed in the transaction and executing the transaction tail, wherein the transaction cannot be aborted... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110113204 - Memory controller with external refresh mechanism: The invention relates to a memory controller for use in a System-on-Chip, wherein the System-on-Chip comprises a plurality of agents and an off-chip volatile memory. The memory controller comprises a first port (CBP) for receiving low-priority requests (CBR) for access to the volatile memory from a first-subset of the plurality... Agent: Nxp B.v.

20110113205 - Data storage device: A data storage device connectable to an electronic device and a remote storage serve, which comprises memory managing means configured to receive a request for a piece of information from the electronic device and if said piece of information is stored both in a local memory of the data storage... Agent: Telefonica, S.a.

20110113207 - Data processing system with application-controlled allocation of file storage space: A data processing system stores data in a data file by first identifying the data file as a large file type known to require an amount of storage space substantially greater than a system allocation unit size. As data is to be written to the data file beginning at a... Agent: Iron Mountain, Incorporated

20110113209 - Data recovery systems and methods: Nearline disaster recovery (“nearline DR”) storage systems and methods that permit the use of previously restored stored data from a near time period by virtual applications operating off a backup storage location during the period of disaster recovery at a primary site. This is generally referred to as a “nearline... Agent:

20110113206 - Method for obtaining a snapshot image of a disk shared by multiple virtual machines: Methods for obtaining a snapshot of a shared virtual machine (VM) image are described herein. In response to a request for obtaining a snapshot of a first VM image stored in a storage disk accessed and shared by a plurality of VMs, a virtualization manager selects a VM from the... Agent: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.

20110113208 - Storing checkpoint data in non-volatile memory: Methods and systems for storing checkpoint data in non-volatile memory are described. According to one embodiment, a data storage method includes executing an application using processing circuitry and during the execution, writing data generated by the execution of the application to volatile memory. An indication of a checkpoint is provided... Agent:

20110113210 - Concurrent access to a memory pool shared between a block access device and a graph access device: A graph access device and block access device can simultaneously access a memory pool shared between the devices. The memory pool may include one or more memory arrays accessed as a single logical memory. The block access device accesses the memory pool as a flat array of memory blocks, and... Agent:

20110113211 - Systems and methods of quota accounting: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to incremental computing. Specifically, embodiments of the invention include systems and methods that provide for the concurrent processing of multiple, incremental changes to a data value while at the same time monitoring and/or enforcing threshold values for that data value. For example, a method... Agent: Isilon Systems, Inc.

20110113212 - Systems for accessing memory card and methods for accessing memory card by a control unit: A system for accessing a memory card is provided. The system includes a control unit having a control pin and a processor. The processor senses a card-insertion signal from a socket via the control pin for indicating whether the memory card has been inserted into the socket. The processor provides... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110113213 - Packed storage commands and storage command streams: A packed command can be received at a storage device. The packed command can include an indicator of a source data location in the storage device and an indicator of a destination data location in the storage device. In response to receiving the packed command, a storage map table in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110113214 - Information handling system memory management: An information handling system (IHS) loads an application that may include startup code and steady state operation code. The IHS allocates one region of system memory to the startup code and another region of system memory to the steady state operation code. A programmer inserts a memory release call command... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110113215 - Method and apparatus for dynamic resizing of cache partitions based on the execution phase of tasks: The present invention proposes a method and a system for dynamic cache partitioning for application tasks in a multiprocessor. An approach for dynamically resizing cache partitions based on the execution phase of the application tasks is provided. The execution phases of the application tasks are identified and updated in a... Agent: Nxp B.v.

20110113216 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes: a ROM for storing a program therein; a RAM for temporarily storing therein the program read from the ROM; a program execution unit that is adapted to read and execute the program from the ROM or the RAM; a memory management unit that translates a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110107006 - Multiprocessor system and method thereof: A multiprocessor system and method thereof are provided. The example multiprocessor system may include first and second processors, a dynamic random access memory having a memory cell array, the memory cell array including a first memory bank coupled to the first processor through a first port, second and fourth memory... Agent:

20110107005 - Semiconductor device: A renewal of an internal address generated by an internal address generator that is used for a refresh operation of information in a memory unit including a plurality of memory cells is preformed during a refresh operation before an activated word line connected to the memory cell corresponding to the... Agent: Elpida Memory, Inc.

20110107007 - Asynchronous page faults for virtual machines: A method and system to handle an asynchronous page fault in a virtual machine system. A computer hosts a virtual machine that includes a virtual central processing unit (CPU). The virtual CPU requests access to a page that is not resident in memory. The host operating system of the computer... Agent: Red Hat, Inc.

20110107008 - Memory management in a nested virtualization enviroment: A method for managing memory in a nested virtualization environment is provided. The method comprises implementing a first virtual machine (VM) for a first software such that a first guest memory is allocated to the first software; maintaining a first data structure to translate one or more memory addresses in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107011 - Data defragmentation of solid-state memory: A method and apparatus for improving the performance of a computer system having a solid-state (flash) memory device as the main system memory. After weeks or months of frequent use, solid-state memories can become badly fragmented, and although every memory cell has basically the same access time to retrieve or... Agent:

20110107015 - Data writing method for a flash memory, and flash memory controller and flash memory storage system using the same: A data writing method for writing data from a host system into a flash memory chip having a plurality of physical blocks is provided. The method includes configuring a plurality of logical access addresses and recording address centers and address radiuses for the physical blocks. The method also includes receiving... Agent: Phison Electronics Corp.

20110107013 - High throughput flash memory system: There is disclosed a memory system and method. The memory system may include a plurality of memory planes including two or more data memory areas, and a memory controller adapted to controlling reading, writing, and erasing of the plurality of memory planes. When any one of the data memory areas... Agent:

20110107014 - Memory device page buffer configuration and methods: Memory devices and methods are described that include communication circuitry between page buffers in a memory array. Examples include communication circuitry that provide status information of page buffers that are directly adjacent to a given page buffer. The exchanged information can be used to adjust a given page buffer to... Agent:

20110107009 - Non-volatile memory controller device and method therefor: A method of storing information at a non-volatile memory includes storing a status bit prior to storing data at the memory. A second status bit is stored after storing of the data. Because the storage of data is interleaved with the storage of the status bits, a brownout or other... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20110107012 - Non-volatile semiconductor memory comprising power fail circuitry for flushing write data in response to a power fail signal: A non-volatile semiconductor memory is disclosed comprising a first memory device having a memory array including a plurality of memory segments, and a data register for storing write data prior to being written to one of the memory segments. A memory controller comprises a microprocessor for executing access commands received... Agent: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

20110107010 - One-time programmable memory device and methods thereof: A portion of a programmable memory device is configured as a one-time programmable (OTP) memory, where in response to a write access to the memory device, a memory controller determines whether the write access is associated with a memory location designated as an OTP memory location. If so, the memory... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20110107018 - Plural-partitioned type nonvolatile storage device and system: A plural-partitioned type nonvolatile storage device which solves the problem that a memory card composed of a flash memory and a controller, when a storage area is divided into a plurality of partitions, cannot be correctly used with a conventional host apparatus incapable of recognizing plural partitions. The memory card... Agent:

20110107016 - Solid state storage systems and methods for flexibly controlling wear leveling: Solid-state storage systems and methods are provided for controlling a wear leveling process for uniform use of the memory cells that replaces worn memory blocks with less frequently used memory blocks. The wear leveling process is performed by changing the physical locations of the storage cells within each memory zone... Agent: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

20110107017 - Storage apparatus and data access method thereof: A storage apparatus includes a first data section, a second data section, and a common data section. The first data section stores first data, the second data section stores second data, and the common data section stores common data. The storage apparatus stores a single copy of the common data.... Agent: Mstar Semiconductor, Inc.

20110107019 - App (a priori probability) storage design for lte turbo decoder with quadratic permutation polynomial interleaver: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate ensuring contention and/or collision free memory within a turbo decoder. A Posteriori Probability (APP) Random Access Memory (RAM) can be segmented or partitioned into two or more files with an interleaving sub-group within each file. This enables parallel operation in a turbo decoder... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110107021 - Column oriented in-memory page caching: A one-dimensional array is allocated in an in-memory cache for each column in a set of tabular data. The data type of each one-dimensional array is set to be the same as the data type of the corresponding column in the tabular data. Once the one-dimensional arrays have been allocated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110107020 - Hibernation solution for embedded devices and systems: An embedded device is hibernated by storing state data of the embedded device to a non-volatile data storage medium, and powering off the embedded device. The embedded device is later woken up in response to the detection of a wakeup event from a wakeup source. The state data stored in... Agent:

20110107022 - Reducing power consumption for dynamic memories using distributed refresh control: A method for refreshing memory is provided. The method comprises determining when a first memory of a plurality of memories is not being accessed and sending a refresh opportunity command from a master refresh controller to one of a plurality of local refresh controllers when the first memory is not... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110107023 - Automatically linking partitions on a tape media device: A system and method for automatically linking partitions on storage media for use within a storage management system is provided to minimize wasted space on the storage media, the time and expense traditionally spent reclaiming partitions containing invalid data, and the computer processing capability required to write data to and... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110107024 - Extended logical worm data integrity protection: A data storage system stores logical data object(s), each identified by a logical identifier. A control is configured to assign a unique WORM (Write Once Read Many) identifier to the logical data object, and stores the unique WORM identifier as associated with the logical identifier, in a database maintained by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107025 - Synchronizing snapshot volumes across hosts: Prior to overwriting a block of data in a first volume of data on a primary host, the block of data is written to a first snapshot of the first volume. Subsequently, the first snapshot can be synchronized with a snapshot of a second volume of data on a secondary... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20110107026 - Concurrent set storage in distributed storage network: For each original data segment, a distributed storage processing unit generates encoded slices designed to prevent the original data segment from being reconstructed using fewer than a threshold number of encoded slices. Multiple encoded slices are generated for each of two different data segments, and the slices associated with the... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20110107028 - Dynamically expanding storage capacity of a storage volume: A storage system includes at least one storage device on which are provided data storage volumes and an extended storage volume. The data storage volumes include a first data storage volume that is implemented with a data protection mechanism, and a second data storage volume that is implemented without the... Agent:

20110107027 - Indirect storage of data in a dispersed storage system: A method begins by a dispersed storage processing module obtaining data for storage. The method continues with the dispersed storage processing module encoding the data in accordance with an error coding dispersal storage function to produce a plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the dispersed... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20110107029 - Storage subsystem that connects fibre channel and supports online backup: The storage system includes first and second disk arrays. The first disk array has a first port coupled to a second port of the second disk array, a port controller controlling the first port, a plurality of disk devices to store data, and a controller managing a plurality of logical... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110107030 - Self-organizing methodology for cache cooperation in video distribution networks: A content distribution network (CDN) comprising content storage nodes (CSNs) or caches having storage space that preferentially stores more popular content objects.... Agent:

20110107032 - Cache reconfiguration based on run-time performance data or software hint: A method for reconfiguring a cache memory is provided. The method in one aspect may include analyzing one or more characteristics of an execution entity accessing a cache memory and reconfiguring the cache based on the one or more characteristics analyzed. Examples of analyzed characteristic may include but are not... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107031 - Extended cache capacity: A method, programmed medium and system are provided for enabling a core's cache capacity to be increased by using the caches of the disabled or non-enabled cores on the same chip. Caches of disabled or non-enabled cores on a chip are made accessible to store cachelines for those chip cores... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107033 - Method and apparatus for providing an application-level cache: An approach is provided for providing an application-level cache. A caching application configures at least one memory of a mobile terminal into an application-level cache with a locked region and a floating region. The caching application then causes, at least in part, actions that result in caching, into each of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110107034 - Cache device: A cache device comprises: data memory that includes a plurality of ways for storing a part of data of a main memory; tag memory that includes a plurality of ways, each of which is for storing tag contained in address of data recorded in each way of the data memory;... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20110107035 - Cross-logical entity accelerators: A cross-logical entity group is created that includes one or more accelerators to be shared by a plurality of logical entities. Instantiated on the accelerators are functions that are common across multiple logical entities. The functions to be instantiated are determined, for instance, dynamically during run-time.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107040 - Adaptable external drive: In one embodiment a network attached storage device comprises a detection module to detect, in the network attached storage device, the connection of an external storage media to the network attached storage device, a format module to initiate, in the network attached storage device, a format utility, and configure the... Agent:

20110107036 - Distributed storage revision rollbacks: Multiple revisions of an encoded data slice can be stored in a distributed storage unit. Before writing a new revision of an encoded data slice to storage, the distributed storage unit can invoke a write lock for all encoded data slices having the same slice name as the slice being... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20110107037 - Information processing apparatus and memory control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes memory modules, a measuring module, a determination module, and a controller. The measuring module initializes the memory modules when the apparatus has been booted and an operating system of the information processing apparatus has not yet been started, measures a temperature... Agent:

20110107038 - Memory management program and apparatus: A memory management apparatus includes: a memory space including a memory area serving as a heap area and a non-heap-area memory area; and memory management unit which add a header for an object to a memory area other than heap-area to treat the non-heap-area memory area as a mock object... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110107039 - Methods for implementation of data formats on a removable disk drive storage system: An archiving system including one or more removable disk drives embedded in removable disk cartridges, referred to simply as removable disk drives. The removable disk drives allow for expandability and replacement such that the archiving system need not be duplicated to add new or more storage capacity. In embodiments, the... Agent: Prostor Systems, Inc.

20110107041 - Method for executing data updates in an ic card: A method is for executing n data updates in an IC Card which has memory pages supporting m erase operations per page, with m<n. The method includes the step of allocating a cyclic elementary file including N records, each record associated to a memory page of the IC Card, and... Agent: Incard S.a.

20110107042 - Formatting data storage according to data classification: A set of data can be classified into a data level of multiple possible data levels. Additionally, an indicator of the data level for the set of data can be transmitted to a storage device. In response to receiving the indicator, a storage area in the device can be formatted... Agent:

20110107046 - Binary-level update of compressed read-only file systems: A method and computer-readable memory device that enable processing of a first memory image comprising a plurality of compressed sub-blocks and uncompressed sub-blocks to produce a second memory image comprising contents of the first memory image arranged as a plurality of memory blocks. The memory blocks of the second memory... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

20110107045 - Hybrid storage data migration by selective data removal: A hybrid data storage system is one which has data storage clusters of different types. In a hybrid data storage system, at least one first data storage cluster is configured to store data and has high data storage capacity; and at least one second data storage cluster is configured to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107044 - Memory migration: A source system comprises memory and a processor executing code to cause at least some of the memory to be migrated over a network to a target system. The processor causes the memory to be migrated by migrating some of the memory while a guest continues to write the memory,... Agent:

20110107043 - Self learning backup and recovery management system: A system and method provide for a reception of data at a computer processor. The data relates to a dataset in a computer system. The computer processor calculates a weight for the dataset as a function of the data, and the processor executes an action on the dataset as a... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20110107047 - Enforcing a file protection policy by a storage device: A file attribute, which is called herein “enforcement bit”, is used for each file that is stored in a storage device. If the protection particulars associated with a stored file are allowed to be changed, the enforcement bit is set to a first value, and if the protection particulars or... Agent:

20110107048 - Importing media content items: Systems and techniques are disclosed for allowing a user to view and edit media content items while those media content items are being transferred from one location to another. For example, a method can include receiving a request to transfer a media content from a source memory location where the... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110107049 - Method and apparatus adapted to prevent code data from being lost in solder reflow: A semiconductor device comprises a first non-volatile memory configured to store program code and a processor configured to copy the program code from the first non-volatile memory to a second non-volatile memory after a solder reflow process. The processor typically copies the program code from the first non-volatile memory to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110107050 - Adaptive triggering of garbage collection: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptively triggering garbage collection. During relatively steady or decreasing rates of allocation of free memory, a threshold for triggering garbage collection is dynamically and adaptively determined on the basis of memory drops (i.e., decreases in free memory) during garbage collection. If a significant increase... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110107051 - Semiconductor memory, memory system, and method of controlling the same: Various embodiments of a semiconductor system, a semiconductor memory, and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the semiconductor memory may include a first circuit area configured to perform an operation corresponding to a general operation command and a second circuit area configured to provide... Agent: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

20110107053 - Allocating storage memory based on future use estimates: A method for allocating storage memory space is provided. The method involves receiving a request for storage memory allocation for a file of a current size; estimating a future size of the file, different than the current size of the file, based at least on a particular attribute associated with... Agent:

20110107052 - Virtual disk mapping: A storage area network can include a storage virtualization entity—intelligent storage application resource (iSAR)—either as a separate device in the fabric, or as an integrated module in one or more switches within the fabric. All I/O operations can be re-directed to iSAR for processing. iSAR can segment virtual storage and... Agent:

20110107054 - Expanding memory size: A method, system, and computer usable program product for expanding memory size are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A desired size of an expanded memory and a first information about a workload in the data processing system are received. A size of a compressed memory pool to use with the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110107055 - Diagonally accessed memory array circuit: A memory-array decoder operably coupled to a memory array comprising a sequence of rows and receiving as input a plurality of address bits whereby these address bits are transformed by transforming logic. This transforming logic may include adders. Transforming logic may alternately include comparators or exclusive-or circuits. Transforming logic comprising... Agent:

20110107056 - Method for determining data correlation and a data processing method for a memory: A method for determining data correlation and a data processing method for a memory are disclosed. The data with correlation is collected and stored in the same block. Also the data with correlation is determined based on a specific function to be executed by the user. In other words, if... Agent: Acer Incorporated

20110107057 - Address translation unit with multiple virtual queues: An address translation unit includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), a miss queue, and a control unit. The TLB may store a plurality of address translations. The miss queue may store received address translation requests that missed in the TLB. The miss queue includes a plurality of entries. At least... Agent: