Patents Issued in May 2, 2017
  • Patent number: 9639253
    Abstract: An apparatus presents a plurality of information items to a user. Each information item corresponds to at least on piece of information that is marked by at least one tag in a single source script. The apparatus enables a user to select presented information items. The apparatus further enables a use of a plurality of pieces of information from the source script marked by tags, which correspond to information items selected by a user, for presentation in a single graphical representation to the user. Another apparatus automatically obtains a plurality of pieces of information marked by a plurality of tags included in a single source script that is available at a further apparatus, and presents the plurality of pieces of information in a single graphical representation to a user. The information may represent a plurality of locations, times or an area. The graphical representation may comprise a map or a timeline. The source script may be that of a Web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Erika Reponen
  • Patent number: 9639254
    Abstract: Method and systems for editing, receiving and processing video. Media submissions may be received from remote devices associated with a plurality of users, and the media submissions and a copy of the media submissions in a format for easier access may be stored. A data organization structure including a mechanism for providing sets of folders may be provided, the sets of folders configurable based on input from a user. Media submissions may be organized into the respective folders designated by the users based on user input. A media product may be created based on one or more media submissions. The media product may be created by utilizing an editing interface which allows users at different locations to collaboratively edit video over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventors: Paul Lussier, Nikolas Namikas, Dmitry Buslaev, Robert McFarland
  • Patent number: 9639255
    Abstract: A user interface for a communication device having a wireless interface for connection to associated devices includes a graphical display screen integrated into the communication device, a user input device indicating selection and movement of graphical objects displayed on the graphical display screen, and a processor programmed to cause the graphical display screen to display a first arc representing the communication device itself, a first circle surrounding a visual representation of an audio output device associated with the communication device, and a connector between the first arc and the first circle. The connector includes two curved lines each beginning at the first arc and ending at the first circle, the lines curved towards each other between the first arc and the first circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Naganagouda B. Patil, Sanjay Chaudhry, Rebecca DeVeer Crimmin, Joshua James Deane, Christopher Scott Mucaria, Mary-Ellen Prescott, Graeme Reed
  • Patent number: 9639256
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the application provide a method for starting an Activity of a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The method may comprise: determining a display mode of a new Activity after determining that the new Activity is required to be started; and setting a window flag for starting the Activity according to the determined display mode so as to start the Activity in the display mode indicated by the window flag; where the display mode comprises a window mode and a full-screen mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: HISENSE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pingyang Zhu, Xin Zhang, Guochen Sun, Jiufa Huang
  • Patent number: 9639257
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed. A user input device may be configured to receive an input from a user. A visual display may be configured to display interface elements in a frame configured to scroll along a first axis based on the input as received by the user input device being substantially along the first axis and to switch display of interface elements of a subset of the interface elements between an unselected configuration and a selected configuration in response to a first input as received by the user input device being substantially along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. The visual display may not switch display of the interface elements between the unselected configuration and the selected configuration based on the input along the first axis without first receiving the first input along the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Andrew Benjamin Rahn
  • Patent number: 9639258
    Abstract: Embodiments related to the manipulation of lists via a multi-touch display are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises a computing device having a touch-sensitive display, a processor, and memory. The memory comprises code executable by the processor to display a scrollable list of items on the touch-sensitive display, to detect a first touch gesture over the scrollable list of items on the touch-sensitive display, and, in response, to scroll the scrollable list of items on the touch-sensitive display. The memory further comprises code executable by the processor to detect a second, multi-touch gesture over the scrollable list of items on the touch-sensitive display, and in response to adjust a displayed range of the scrollable list of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Dane Trevor Storrusten
  • Patent number: 9639259
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display unit, a sensing unit, and a signal processing unit. The sensing unit includes a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor detects a distance between an object and the portable electronic device. The signal processing unit is electronically connected to the display unit and the proximity sensor. The signal processing unit switches a scrolling mode of an image displayed on the display unit according to a detection of the proximity sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Hsien Lo, Che-Ping Chang
  • Patent number: 9639260
    Abstract: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with user interface software interacting with a software application to provide gesture operations for a display of a device. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes transferring a scaling transform call. The gesture operations include performing a scaling transform such as a zoom in or zoom out in response to a user input having two or more input points. The gesture operations also include performing a rotation transform to rotate an image or view in response to a user input having two or more input points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Blumenberg
  • Patent number: 9639261
    Abstract: A device includes a proximity sensor configured to detect when an object is within a predetermined proximity range of the device, and input detection circuitry configured to detect when an input operation is performed on the device. The terminal device includes control circuitry configured to determine a proximity detection state of the device, wherein an object detection state corresponds to a proximity state in which the object is detected within the predetermined proximity range, and an object non-detection state corresponds to a proximity state in which the object is not detected within the predetermined proximity range; control a suspended state of the device, wherein the suspended state is a state of reduced processing and/or power consumption; and control the input detection circuitry such that, when the device is in the suspended state and in the object detection state, the input detection circuitry stops input operation detection processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Patent number: 9639262
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide self-revealing gestures that are designed to provide an indication of how to perform one or more different gestures. In at least one embodiment, an initiation gesture is received, relative to an object. The initiation gesture is configured to cause presentation of a visualization designed to provide an indication of how to perform a different gesture. Responsive to receiving the initiation gesture, the visualization is presented without causing performance of an operation associated with the different gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Gerrit H. Hofmeester, Orry W. Soegiono, Jennifer Marie Wolfe, Chantal M. Leonard, Holger Kuehnle, Moneta Ho Kushner
  • Patent number: 9639263
    Abstract: A web rendering module in the operating system is used to render and display a web page. The web rendering module also generates layout data that describes the position and size of each visual element on the rendered web page. A web editing application uses the layout data to generate a native overlay. The native overlay is an arrangement of cells, and each cell has the same position and size as a respective visual element. The application displays the native overlay on top of the rendered web page so that each visual element on the web page is aligned with a cell in the native overlay. The cells in the native overlay are transparent so that the rendered web page remains visible to the user, but the native overlay captures any interactions that the user performs. The interactions are then processed to make a corresponding change to the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Weebly, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Bloch, Timothy J. Snyder, Scott A. Garman, John D. Rusenko, Jr., Joseph Matthew Fox
  • Patent number: 9639264
    Abstract: An image projector device includes a projection optical unit through which an image is projected and displayed, a recognition unit that recognizes a user's action related to processing of the image, and a control unit that generates and/or edits a drawing image based on the user's action recognized by the recognition unit and projects and displays the drawing image being generated and/or edited as a projected, displayed image through the projection optical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Natori, Koichiro Ota
  • Patent number: 9639265
    Abstract: The described embodiments allow for the association of an interaction with a target in a display. One embodiment includes detecting an interaction with an area associated with a graphical element in a display, detecting a later interaction displaced from the area, and associating the later interaction with a target in the display based at least on the time between the interaction with the area and the later interaction. User interactions with one or more displayed hit targets are based on corresponding time-varying hit zones. In response to unlimited user interaction with a hit target, subsequent user selections are validated based on a time-varying hit zone that is typically extended with respect to the previously selected hit target. The extended selection zone can overlap one or more other hit targets to favor re-selection of the individually selected hit target. The extended selection zone generally decreases as a function of time from prior selections of a hit zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Peterson, Jeffrey Stall, Eric Norman Badger
  • Patent number: 9639266
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method that models a user's interaction with a user interface. There is provided a data input system, comprising a user interface having a plurality of targets and being configured to receive user input. The system comprises a plurality of models, each of which relates previous user input events corresponding to a target to that target. An input probability generator is configured to generate, in association with the plurality of models, a probability that a user input event corresponds to a particular target. There is also provided a method of modelling a target of a user interface having a plurality of targets and being configured to receive input, by modelling for each target previous user input events which correspond to that target. Furthermore, there is provided a method of inputting data into a system comprising a user interface having a plurality of targets and being configured to receive input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Touchtype Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Medlock, Douglas Alexander Harper Orr
  • Patent number: 9639267
    Abstract: A computer-implemented user interface method for a computing device is disclosed. The method includes associating each of a plurality of telephone keys with a direction of each key relative to a center of a telephone keypad, receiving a contact from a user of the device at a location on a touchscreen display of a computing device and an input at a direction relative to the location of the user contact, and causing a telephone number to be entered on the computing device based on the direction of each key relative to the center of the telephone keypad corresponding to the direction relative to the location of the user contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Tiruvilwamalai Venkatram Raman, Charles L. Chen
  • Patent number: 9639268
    Abstract: In a Distributed Virtual Array data storage system, a storage pool receives, from at least one writing entity within a host, a request to write a container of data that is identified by a unique key that is independent of physical storage identifiers and that comprises a set of data chunks. The key indicates a plurality of storage devices in which to store the data chunks, which are accordingly stored in those storage devices. Different combinations, each comprising a layout map, of storage devices are represented in a layout table. Information in the container key is used to select which layout map to use for the chunks of each container. An error-correction chunk is preferably also stored along with the chunks of each container so as to enable data container reconstruction in case of storage device failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DATRIUM, INC.
    Inventor: R. Hugo Patterson, III
  • Patent number: 9639269
    Abstract: A memory module stores a computing device type-specific parameter for each of a number of different types of computing devices. When the memory module is installed within a computing device, the computing device reads the computing device type-specific parameter for the particular type of computing device, and configures itself to use the memory module according to this parameter. As different types of memory modules become available, they are tested against different types of computing devices to determine the computing device type-specific parameter with which they should be programmed for each type of computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Sumanta K. Bahali, Sumeet Kochar, John K. Langgood
  • Patent number: 9639270
    Abstract: A system includes, in a first memory location, a pointer to a next one of the plurality of memory locations and a respective reference counter, in each of respective ones of a plurality of memory locations, a pointer to a next one of the plurality of memory locations, a pointer to a previous one of the plurality of memory locations, and a reference counter, and in a last memory location, a pointer to a previous one of the plurality of memory locations and a respective reference counter, and atomically incrementing and decrementing of a reference counter stored in one of the plurality of memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Andrei Suvernev
  • Patent number: 9639271
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a data allocation method. An embodiment of this method comprises: preparing a storage space; allocating some of the storage space as a first current page, a second current page, a first next page, and a second next page; comparing a first data amount with a first spare space of the first current page, and comparing a second data amount with a second spare space of the second current page; storing first data in the first current page if the first spare space is enough for the first data amount, or else storing the first data in the first next page; and storing second data in the second current page if the second spare space is enough for the second data amount, or else storing the second data in the second next page, wherein the storage processes for the first and second data are executed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Hsu, Ting-Yu Wei, Chi-Ming Cheng, Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 9639272
    Abstract: A sequence of storage devices of a data store may include one or more stripesets for storing data stripes of different lengths and of different types. Each data stripe may be stored in a prefix or other portion of a stripeset. Each data stripe may be identified by an array of addresses that identify each page of the data stripe on each included storage device. When a first storage device of a stripeset becomes full, the stripeset may be shifted by removing the full storage device from the stripeset, and adding a next storage device of the data store to the stripeset. A class variable may be associated with storage devices of a stripeset to identify the type of data that the stripeset can store. The class variable may be increased (or otherwise modified) when a computer stores data of a different class in the stripeset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Reid, Philip A. Bernstein
  • Patent number: 9639273
    Abstract: An approach is provided for representing content data. The cleanup manager determines one or more data types of content associated with a device. Next, the cleanup manager determines effect information regarding one or more effects on one or more resources of the device with respect to the one or more data types. Then, the cleanup manager presents one or more representations of the one or more data types, wherein the one or more representations are based, at least in part, on the effect information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ari-Pekka Hirvonen, Lauri Rauhanen, Aapo Matias Hasu, Jari Tapio Ijäs, Rit Mishra, Jonatan Hedberg
  • Patent number: 9639274
    Abstract: According to certain aspects, a method can include receiving an indication that a restoration of a deduplication database using a secondary copy of a file associated with a secondary copy job is complete; retrieving a first data fingerprint from a data storage database, wherein the first data fingerprint is associated with the secondary copy job used to restore the deduplication database; retrieving a second data fingerprint from a deduplication database media agent, wherein the second data fingerprint is associated with the secondary copy job used to restore the deduplication database; comparing the first data fingerprint with the second data fingerprint to determine whether the first data fingerprint and the second data fingerprint match; and transmitting an instruction to the deduplication database media agent to rebuild the restored deduplication database in response to a determination that the first data fingerprint and the second data fingerprint do not match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CommVault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chandrashekar Maranna, Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Abhishek Narulkar, Deepak Raghunath Attarde, Saurabh Agrawal
  • Patent number: 9639275
    Abstract: Commands associated with one or more logical block addresses are received via a host interface of a storage device. Based on a timing and sequence of the commands, an extent of a file that contains the logical block addresses is determined, the file being stored on the storage device. The logical block addresses are managed internally as a unitary data structure based on determining an association between the logical block addresses and the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Peng Li, Richard Esten Bohn, David Tetzlaff
  • Patent number: 9639276
    Abstract: A request is received over a link that requests a particular line in memory. A directory state record is identified in memory that identifies a directory state of the particular line. A type of the request is identified from the request. It is determined that the directory state of the particular line is to change from the particular state to a new state based on the directory state of the particular line and the type of the request. The directory state record is changed, in response to receipt of the request, to reflect the new state. A copy of the particular line is sent in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Robert G. Blankenship
  • Patent number: 9639277
    Abstract: A virtual LU astride a plurality of storage devices is a virtual volume composed of a plurality of partial volumes. Functions of the storage system, Zoning information of a SAN and a host group information of the virtual volume are inherited to a partial volume created for each physical device. When a page granularity data migration is executed, volume or data are migrated to other storage devices without depending on the relationship between a physical port and the physical device. When a host IO request is received when migration is on-going, response processing is performed by synchronizing storage devices within the range of migration data. The host IO request related to the page being migrated sends a partial complete response including information for re-routing the request to a path of the appropriate data migration destination device capable of issuing the IO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9639278
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein are directed to the use of hashing in a file system metadata arrangement that reduces an amount of metadata stored in a memory of a node in a cluster and that reduces the amount of metadata needed to process an input/output (I/O) request at the node. Illustratively, the embodiments are directed to cuckoo hashing and, in particular, to a manner in which cuckoo hashing may be modified and applied to construct the file system metadata arrangement. In an embodiment, the file system metadata arrangement may be illustratively include a hash collision technique that employs a hash collision computation to determine a unique candidate extent key (having a candidate hash table index) in the event of a collision, i.e., a hash table index collides with a slot of a hash table matching a key found in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Kimmel, T. Byron Rakitzis
  • Patent number: 9639279
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for processing data in a terminal are provided. The method includes when a specific program including a specific extension is stored, identifying addresses representing a position of specific data having the specific extension in an entire storage space, initializing the specific program based on the identified addresses, and generating an address table based on the identified addresses, and storing the generated address table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho-Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 9639280
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing a memory command on a computer system. During operation, a command scheduler executing on a memory controller of the computer system obtains a predicted latency of the memory command based on a memory address to be accessed by the memory command. Next, the command scheduler orders the memory command with other memory commands in a command queue for subsequent processing by a memory resource on the computer system based on the predicted latency of the memory command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventor: David A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9639281
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for implementing data clock synchronization in hybrid memory modules. Embodiments comprise a clock synchronization engine at a command buffer to generate a synchronized data clock having a phase relationship with data signals from a non-volatile memory controller that compensates for various synchronous and/or asynchronous delays to facilitate latching of the data signals at certain DRAM devices (e.g., during data restore operations). Other embodiments comprise a divider to determine the frequency of the synchronized data clock by dividing a local clock signal from the non-volatile memory controller by a selected divider value. Some embodiments comprise a set of synchronization logic that invokes the generation of the synchronized data clock signal responsive to receiving a certain local command and/or frame pulse from the non-volatile memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aws Shallal, Larry Grant Giddens
  • Patent number: 9639282
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and/or devices are used to implement variable bit encoding to improve device endurance and extend life of storage devices. In some embodiments, the method includes detecting a trigger condition with respect to one or more non-volatile memory portions (e.g., portions configured to store data encoded in a first encoding format) of a plurality of non-volatile memory portions of a storage device. In accordance with detecting the trigger condition, the method includes: determining a current and an estimated endurance metric for the plurality of non-volatile memory portions (e.g., corresponding to estimated endurance after reconfiguration of the one or more portions to store data encoded in a second encoding format), and in accordance with a determination that reconfiguration criteria are satisfied (e.g., the estimated endurance metric comprises an improvement over the current endurance metric), reconfiguring the one or more portions to store data encoded in the second encoding format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Navneeth Kankani, Linh Tien Truong
  • Patent number: 9639283
    Abstract: The present invention includes embodiments of systems and methods for increasing the operational efficiency and extending the estimated operational lifetime of a flash memory storage device (and its component flash memory chips, LUNs and blocks of flash memory) by monitoring the health of the device and its components and, in response, adaptively tuning the operating parameters of flash memory chips during their operational lifetime, as well as employing other less extreme preventive measures in the interim, via an interface that avoids the need for direct access to the test modes of the flash memory chips. In an offline characterization phase, “test chips” from a batch of recently manufactured flash memory chips are used to simulate various usage scenarios and measure the performance effects of writing and attempting to recover (read) test patterns written with different sets of operating parameters over time (simulating desired retention periods).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NVMDURANCE LIMITED
    Inventor: Conor Maurice Ryan
  • Patent number: 9639284
    Abstract: The present invention includes embodiments of systems and methods for increasing the operational efficiency and extending the estimated operational lifetime of a flash memory storage device (and its component flash memory chips, LUNs and blocks of flash memory) by monitoring the health of the device and its components and, in response, adaptively tuning the operating parameters of flash memory chips during their operational lifetime, as well as employing other less extreme preventive measures in the interim, via an interface that avoids the need for direct access to the test modes of the flash memory chips. In an offline characterization phase, “test chips” from a batch of recently manufactured flash memory chips are used to simulate various usage scenarios and measure the performance effects of writing and attempting to recover (read) test patterns written with different sets of operating parameters over time (simulating desired retention periods).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NVMDURANCE LIMITED
    Inventor: Conor Maurice Ryan
  • Patent number: 9639285
    Abstract: A Flash-based memory system comprises of a plurality of memory nodes, each memory node comprises a distributed RAID controller agent, a memory controller, and a plurality of memory devices. All the memory nodes are connected in a ring type topology by one or more high-speed serial communication links. More particularly, in each memory node, the RAID controller agent is closely coupled with the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Aupera Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Feng Liao, Zuoying Wu, Zhengning Zhou
  • Patent number: 9639286
    Abstract: A system according to certain aspects may include a secondary storage controller computer configured to: in response to a first instruction to obtain a first secondary copy of a first data set from a secondary storage device(s), the first instruction associated with a first restore operation: instantiate a first restore thread on a processor of the secondary storage controller computer; using the first restore thread, retrieve the first secondary copy from the secondary storage device(s); and forward the retrieved first secondary copy to a primary storage subsystem for storage; and in response to a second instruction to obtain a second secondary copy of a second data set from the secondary storage device(s), the second instruction associated with a second restore operation: using the first restore thread, retrieve the second secondary copy from the secondary storage device(s); and forward the retrieved second secondary copy to the primary storage subsystem for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Saurabh Agrawal, Deepak Raghunath Attarde
  • Patent number: 9639287
    Abstract: In operating a Data Storage Device (DSD) in communication with a host, a reported write command log is maintained that includes entries identifying pending write commands reported as completed to the host but whose data is not yet stored in at least one Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) of the DSD. The reported write command log is maintained to persist over power cycles. A write command is received from the host to store data in the at least one NVM and the data for the write command is buffered in a volatile memory of the DSD for storage in the at least one NVM. The reported write command log is updated to account for the write command as a pending write command reported as completed, and an indication is sent to the host reporting completion of the write command before completing storage of the data in the at least one NVM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Malina, Albert H. Chen
  • Patent number: 9639288
    Abstract: Various embodiments for data management in a storage grid, by a processor device, are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises directing data Input/Output (I/O) operations from a host to an owning node according to a Logical Block Address (LBA) without a static assignment of ownership, notwithstanding any relationship between the host and the storage grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Amit, Lior Chen, Vladislav Drouker, Yossi Yamin
  • Patent number: 9639289
    Abstract: A system according to certain embodiments associates a signature value corresponding to a data block with one or more data blocks and a reference to the data block to form a signature/data word corresponding to the data block. The system further logically organizes the signature/data words into a plurality of files each comprising at least one signature/data word such that the signature values are embedded in the respective file. The system according to certain embodiments reads a previously stored signature value corresponding to a respective data block for sending from a backup storage system having at least one memory device to a secondary storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Deepak Raghunath Attarde
  • Patent number: 9639290
    Abstract: A secondary storage controller receives metadata that uniquely identifies a source volume of a primary storage controller. Data stored in the source volume of the primary storage controller is synchronously copied to a target volume of the secondary storage controller. The secondary storage controller receives a command from a primary host to write selected data to the source volume. In response to receiving the command at the secondary storage controller, the selected data is written to the target volume of the secondary storage controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua J. Crawford, Benjamin J. Donie, Andreas B. Koster, Leann A. Vaterlaus
  • Patent number: 9639291
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a memory system including a non-volatile memory, a controller, a first interface circuit, a first signal line, and a second signal line. The controller is configured to control the non-volatile memory. The first interface circuit is configured to perform level conversion between a first power source level and a second power source level which is lower than the first power source level. The second power source level is used as a driving voltage of the controller. The first signal line is configured to connect to the first interface circuit. The second signal line is configured to connect the first interface circuit and a signal terminal of the controller. A potential of the second signal line is able to be pulled up to the second power source level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hajime Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9639292
    Abstract: A computing system includes a parent partition, child partitions, a hypervisor, shared memories each associated with one of the child partitions, and trigger pages each associated with one of the child partitions. The hypervisor receives a system event signal from one of the child partitions and, in response to receiving the system event signal, accesses the trigger page associated with that child partition. The hypervisor determines whether the trigger page indicates whether data is available to be read from the shared memory associated with the child partition. The hypervisor can send an indication to either the parent partition or the child partitions that data is available to be read from the shared memory associated with the child partition if the hypervisor determines that the trigger page indicates that data is available to be read from the shared memory associated with the child partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Fahrig
  • Patent number: 9639293
    Abstract: A method, for migrating newly allocated data into a second storage tier, includes receiving a request to store a data item. The method includes allocating an extent to a first storage tier to store the new data item. The method includes determining whether an extent is newly allocated on the first storage tier. The method includes migrating, by avoiding a learning phase, the newly allocated extent to the second storage tier from the first storage tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Guo, Bruce McNutt, Tao Tang, Yan Xu
  • Patent number: 9639294
    Abstract: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is configured to process a copy of the log and consistency point entries to replicate data in a replication volume, the replicated data being a copy of the application data on the source system. When the replicated data represents a known good state of the application, as determined by the consistency point entries, the destination system(s) may perform a storage operation (e.g., snapshot, backup) to copy the replicated data and to logically associate the copied data with a time information (e.g., time stamp) indicative of the source system time when the application was in the known good state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Prahlad, David Ngo
  • Patent number: 9639295
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present invention provide for parallel replication of an IO received by a storage array. Such parallelism provide numerous benefits, including enqueuing the command phase of the write command at the storage array and the replication appliance in parallel, providing data still in memory (i.e., slot) and not destaged to disk, and providing data processing in parallel (e.g., validate checksum, validate data is good, validate internal data structures).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Assaf Natanzon, Arieh Don, Patrick Brian Riordan, Anestis Panidis
  • Patent number: 9639296
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate management of thin provisioned data storage. Specifically, portions of thinly provisioned data stores may be deallocated when they contain invalid data, such as data deleted by a user. A user may transmit notifications, which may include delete notifications, such as TRIM commands, to a provider of the data store (or to the data store itself) that data has been deleted. A management component may modify the data store, or metadata corresponding to the data store, to reflect the deletion. The management component may further monitor portions of the data store to determine whether individual portions contain entirely invalid data. If so, the portion may be deallocated from the thin provisioned data store, resulting in more efficient thin provisioning. Deallocation may be enabled even where deletion notifications from a user do not correspond directly to allocated storage portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Pradeep Vincent
  • Patent number: 9639297
    Abstract: Techniques for providing shared access to, e.g., a small computer system interface (SCSI) storage device in a computer network include providing an operational mode on SCSI interfaces with a first media agent and a second media agent such that, in response to inquiry messages on the SCSI interfaces, the SCSI storage device appears as a SCSI target device to the first media agent and the second media agent and mapping data operations between the first media agent and the SCSI storage device and the second media agent and the SCSI storage device to logically unique channel numbers for the first media agent and the second media agent to perform data storage operations over their respective SCSI interfaces by concurrently sharing the SCSI storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Ramachandra Reddy Ankireddypalle, Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Rajiv Kottomtharayil
  • Patent number: 9639298
    Abstract: A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing obtaining estimated future availability information for storage units and organizing a plurality of sets of encoded data slices into a plurality of group-sets of encoded data slices. For each of the plurality of group-sets of encoded data slices, the method continues with the DS processing module estimating an approximate storage completion time to produce a plurality of approximate storage completion times. The method continues with the DS processing module establishing a time-availability pattern for writing the plurality of group-sets of encoded data slices to the storage units based on the estimated future availability information and the plurality of approximate storage completion times. The method continues with the DS processing module sending the plurality of group-sets of encoded data slices to at least some of the storage units for storage therein in accordance with the time-availability pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asimuddin Kazi, Thomas Darrel Cocagne, Wesley Leggette
  • Patent number: 9639299
    Abstract: Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods for facilitating communications with storage. A request having a first-interface format to access storage is intercepted. The first interface format of the request supports access to a virtual hard drive (VHD). The request is translated to a blob request having a blob interface format. The blob interface format of the blob request supports access to a plurality of blobs of data in a blob store. The blob request is communicated to a blob interface such that the blob request is executed in managing the plurality of blobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Andrew James Edwards, Ju Wang, Samer Arafeh, Anu Engineer, Yue Zuo
  • Patent number: 9639300
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image capture device that captures a user image and generates a captured image, a document holding determination unit that determines whether or not the user appearing in the captured image holds a document based on the captured image, and a scanned data processor that performs processing including scanning the document. The scanned data processor is activated if the document holding determination unit determines that the user holds the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukinari Hirose
  • Patent number: 9639301
    Abstract: Additional information can be appropriately added to an area in a template. The web application execution unit of a printer displays a print layout on a control device in a format enabling adding additional information to areas formed in the printing area of a print medium based on a first template, and when additional information is added to one area, changes to a format reflecting the additional information applied to the one area, and displays the print layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Sugimoto, Susumu Shiohara
  • Patent number: 9639302
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire status information of an image forming apparatus; and an information display unit configured to constantly display the status information of the image forming apparatus in a first region on a display device, to display setting information regarding image processing to be performed in the image forming apparatus in a second region on the display device, the second region being adjacent to the first region, and to display a relation display element related to the setting information at a position so as not to overlap the relation display element with the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taijirou Sueishi