Abstract: An electronic textile system and a docking assembly for the electronic textile system. The system includes a textile substrate, an input device attached to the textile substrate, and a docking assembly attached to the textile substrate for removably receiving a controller device. The docking assembly includes a first electrical interface for mating with a second electrical interface of the controller device. The system includes an electrical conductive pathway network integrated in the textile substrate for electrically coupling the input device and the first electrical interface. The input device may transmit to the controller device electronic signals representing input data when the controller device is received by the docking assembly.

Abstract: A method for providing multiple, different point-in-time, and read and write accessible snapshot copies of a base disk in storage arrays is disclosed. The method improves the performance of multiple snapshots by linking them together and sharing only one copy of a unique data block. This method also has the benefit of saving snapshot disk space by dynamically allocating additional space required according to the actual usage. Additionally, only one copy-on-write procedure needs to be performed for multiple snapshot volumes during access to either the base disk volume, or any of the snapshots that is attached to the base disk. When a snapshot volume is deleted, disk space and data structure dedicated to that snapshot volume are also deleted, so that storage space and memory resource within the snapshots may be reused for subsequent applications.