Abstract: An animal trap is provided that includes a plurality of posts and a net structure. The net structure is attached to the posts. The net structure has a width that extends between an upper lateral edge and a lower lateral edge, a first length that extends between a first lengthwise end and a second lengthwise end at the upper lateral edge, and a second length that extends between the first and second lengthwise ends at the lower lateral edge. The net structure includes a net and an upper cord. The upper cord is attached to the net. The net structure is configurable in a set configuration having an interior trap region. In the set configuration, the net structure has a first circumference at the upper lateral edge and a second circumference at the lower lateral edge. The first circumference is greater than the second circumference.

Abstract: A storage device connected to an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to perform data transfer with the information processing apparatus at any one of a plurality of predetermined data transfer rates. The processing circuitry is further configured to perform the data transfer with the information processing apparatus at a data transfer rate lower than a data transfer rate of an upper limit among the plurality of data transfer rates, without performing the data transfer at the data transfer rate of the upper limit.

Abstract: A cloud management server comprises processing circuitry configured to access a device database storing information identifying a storage device in association with information identifying an owner thereof; access a license database storing license information of a license for a cloud storage, information identifying a license subscriber of the license, and information identifying a license sharer; receive setting information about a first license from a first license subscriber; refer to the device database to acquire information identifying a first storage device; set an update authority of the setting information to at least one of the first license subscriber and a first license sharer; and receive update instructions of the setting information, to refer to the update authority of the setting information, to confirm that the update instructions are given by the first license subscriber or the first license sharer having the update authority, and update the setting information.

Abstract: A network device that is connectable to a network includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute detection processing including detection of connection availability for a plurality of different types of connections to the network, and generate a detection code indicating a detection result of the plurality of different types of connections to the network in responding to the detection processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is connected to a storage device that stores a file includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive an instruction of an end process during execution of a predetermined process related to the file, determine, after the predetermined process is completed, whether the instruction of the end process was received during the execution of the predetermined process, and execute the end process after it is determined that the instruction of the end process was received.

Abstract: A device information processing system includes a server and a device information processing apparatus, and the server acquires device identification information including an individual identification code unique to a device, and class identification information identifying a class identification code unique to a device class, and the device information processing apparatus receives the device identification information from the server, acquires the device identification information that fulfills a condition, extracts the class identification information from the device identification information, acquires a class identification code that is identified by the class identification information, and acquires configuration entries of a device corresponding to the class identification code.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes: a memory that stores data and main management information, the main management information identifying a physical address of the data; and processing circuitry configured to generate preliminary management information that includes information of the same content as the main management information, and select, as use management information, any one of the main management information and the preliminary management information upon start of the storage apparatus. Access to the data stored in the memory is performed using the selected use management information.

Abstract: A storage device includes a plurality of memory devices, and processing circuitry. The plurality of memory devices includes one or more hard disk drives. The processing circuitry is configured to inspect performance of the one or more hard disk drives at a predetermined timing; perform a first predetermined countermeasure processing, on a target hard disk drive out of the one or more hard disk drives whose performance has been determined to have fallen, in a case that the target hard disk drive is a shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive; and perform a second predetermined countermeasure processing, different from the first predetermined countermeasure processing, on the target hard disk drive, in a case that the target hard disk drive is not a shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive.

Abstract: A method includes storing owner information indicating one or more owners of one or more storage devices and one or more owners of one or more backup storages; and enabling at least one of a backup processing and a restoration processing between a first backup storage of the one or more backup storages and a first storage device of the one or more storage devices, under a condition an owner of the first storage device and an owner of the first backup storage match.

Abstract: A storage device comprises a flash memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to divide a storage area into pages to manage the storage area, and deletes each of the blocks including a plurality of pages. The processing circuitry receives a write instruction including address information specifying a writing location of the data, and stores, with respect to a plurality of groups in which each group includes one or more blocks, a plurality of group identification information each identifying a group and information specifying blocks included in the group in association with each other. The processing circuitry performs a predetermined calculation to obtain group identification information, and identifies a group including a block including pages onto which data is to be written according to the write instruction. Finally, the processing circuitry writes the data onto the pages of the block included in the group identified.

Abstract: A system includes a device management apparatus. The device management apparatus includes: one or more memories; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: store user group information that defines at least one user group, each user group being a group of one or more users; store device group definition information that defines at least one device group in association with at least one user group, each device group being a group of one or more network devices; store authority information of each device group associated with at least one user group; store association information that associates each of the network devices to be objects of management with at least one of the device groups; and determine whether to permit a user operation related to a network device belonging to a device group based on the authority information of each of the device groups.

Abstract: A cloud management server comprises processing circuitry configured to access a device database storing information identifying a storage device in association with information identifying an owner thereof; access a license database storing license information of a license for a cloud storage, information identifying a license subscriber of the license, and information identifying a license sharer; receive setting information about a first license from a first license subscriber; refer to the device database to acquire information identifying a first storage device; set an update authority of the setting information to at least one of the first license subscriber and a first license sharer; and receive update instructions of the setting information, to refer to the update authority of the setting information, to confirm that the update instructions are given by the first license subscriber or the first license sharer having the update authority, and update the setting information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that includes processing circuitry that: acquires information regarding a processing content to be performed by a terminal; acquires information regarding a designated time at which the terminal is designated to perform the processing content; acquires a selection of a base time zone from a plurality of time zones including at least a first time zone to which the information processing apparatus belongs and a second time zone to which the terminal belongs, the designated time being corrected according to the selected base time zone to set an execution time at which the terminal performs the processing content; and transmits an instruction to the terminal to perform the processing content at the execution time.

Abstract: An antenna device that includes a first antenna configured to perform communication using a predetermined frequency band, and a second antenna configured to perform communication using the predetermined frequency band, and the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged such that amplitude directions of radio waves which are output from the first antenna and the second antenna coincide with each other.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes: a memory that stores data and main management information, the main management information identifying a physical address of the data; and processing circuitry configured to generate preliminary management information that includes information of the same content as the main management information, and select, as use management information, any one of the main management information and the preliminary management information upon start of the storage apparatus. Access to the data stored in the memory is performed using the selected use management information.

Abstract: An animal trap is provided that includes a plurality of posts and a net structure. The net structure is attached to the posts. The net structure has a width that extends between an upper lateral edge and a lower lateral edge, a first length that extends between a first lengthwise end and a second lengthwise end at the upper lateral edge, and a second length that extends between the first and second lengthwise ends at the lower lateral edge. The net structure includes a net and an upper cord. The upper cord is attached to the net. The net structure is configurable in a set configuration having an interior trap region. In the set configuration, the net structure has a first circumference at the upper lateral edge and a second circumference at the lower lateral edge. The first circumference is greater than the second circumference.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that includes processing circuitry that: acquires information regarding a processing content to be performed by a terminal; acquires information regarding a designated time at which the terminal is designated to perform the processing content; acquires a selection of a base time zone from a plurality of time zones including at least a first time zone to which the information processing apparatus belongs and a second time zone to which the terminal belongs, the designated time being corrected according to the selected base time zone to set an execution time at which the terminal performs the processing content; and transmits an instruction to the terminal to perform the processing content at the execution time.

Abstract: A communication device that includes processing circuitry that receives an input to switch an operation mode between a first operation mode in which access to the communication device or a connected device connected to the communication device is restricted and a second operation mode in which access is not restricted; controls the access from devices that transmitted access requests in accordance with the first operation mode or the second operation mode, which is designated by the received input; and permits a no-permission device that has no permission for the access to access the communication device or the connected device based on an access request from the no-permission device by registering the no-permission device as a permission device, in a case where the operation mode is the second operation mode.

Abstract: A storage system includes processing circuitry configured to detect a file operation in a folder of a first storage, sequentially register information of files having undergone a change as a file replication processing target in a database, execute file replication processing to sequentially replicate each individual file of the files registered as the file replication processing target to a second storage, execute folder replication processing to replicate the folder to the second storage, in the folder replication processing, exclude a file belonging to the folder for the folder replication processing from the file replication processing target, and execute the file replication processing in parallel with the folder replication processing when the information of the file having undergone a change has been registered as the file replication processing target in the database during the folder replication processing.

Abstract: An antenna device that includes a first antenna configured to perform communication using a predetermined frequency band, and a second antenna configured to perform communication using the predetermined frequency band, and the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged such that amplitude directions of radio waves which are output from the first antenna and the second antenna coincide with each other.