Patents by Inventor Michiko Kunioka

Michiko Kunioka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7552147
    Abstract: A system, method a computer usable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a computer-based method for restoration of a database from a failed data recovery. For each failed data recovery the method generates a log error data set having log records of a faulty transaction unapplied to data due to inconsistency. Log error data set is directly useable by a log analysis tool to regenerate and redo the unapplied faulty transaction to recover the data and by a print log tool to diagnose the faulty transaction. Log records mimic format of records of an archive log data set and identify data objects, faulty transactions on the data objects and a range of the unapplied data objects' updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Josten, Laura Michiko Kunioka-Weis, Thomas Majithia, Haakon Philip Roberts, James Zu-Chia Teng
  • Patent number: 6125370
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented repartitioning system. Data is repartitioned in a database stored on a data storage device connected to a computer. First, it is detected that a partitioning scheme for the data has been altered. Next, partitions that would be affected by the altered partitioning scheme are identified. Then, the identified partitions are reorganized based on the altered partitioning scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Courter, Paramesh Sampatrai Desai, Craig Alan Friske, John Marland Garth, Kevin Daniel Gougherty, Laura Michiko Kunioka-Weis, David Elmer Raiman, James Alan Ruddy, Julie Ann Watts, Kathryn Ruth Zeidenstein
  • Patent number: 6119128
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented recovery system for restoring a database in a computer. The database contains objects and is stored on a primary data storage device connected to the computer. Objects of different types in the database are copied from the primary data storage device to a secondary data storage device. Modifications to the objects are logged in a log file. A recovery indicator is received that indicates that recovery of the objects in the database is required. The objects are copied from the secondary data storage device to the database on the primary data storage device. Modifications in the log file are applied to the copied objects during one pass through the log file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Courter, Ming-Hung Hu, Laura Michiko Kunioka-Weis, Thomas Majithia, Deborah A. Matamoros, James Alan Ruddy, Yufen Wang
  • Patent number: 6055368
    Abstract: A batch execution control programming device for creating a batch execution control program without taking a lot of time is obtained. A processing system reads (or inputs) an environment definition file, a user interface definition file, a parameter definition file, an invocation command definition file and a control command file, and generates a batch execution control program. The user interface definition file, the parameter definition file and the invocation command definition file provide the description for defining the contents of a processing for tool encapsulation which are changed according to the specification for tool encapsulation. The environment definition file determines whether the contents of processings of the files are executed according to the characteristics of a tool or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Michiko Kunioka
  • Patent number: 6038569
    Abstract: Data is loaded to a data structure while an image copy of the data structure is concurrently formed. After data records are obtained from one or more data sources, each of the data records is associated with one of multiple pages. As each page is completed, it is written to a primary data structure. Also upon completion of each page in the primary data structure, concurrently with storage of the page in the primary data structure, an image copy of the page is made in an image copy data set. Partially or completely failed primary data structures may also be restored using image copies made according to the invention. Timestamps mark the time at which each page are made; image copy pages include the same timestamp as their respective primary pages. Upon detecting a data structure failure, each page of the image copy is sequentially reviewed. For each image page being reviewed, the page's timestamp is compared with the timestamp of the corresponding page from the primary data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Abel Beavin, John Marland Garth, Laura Michiko Kunioka-Weis, James Zu-Chia Teng