 Patent Application Title |
Patent App Num. |
Date |
| Virtual computer system and control method thereof | 20110022887 | 20110127 |
| When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a failure occurs in an LPAR generated on a physical computer under an SAN environment, configuration information including a unique ID (WWN) of the LPAR where the failure occurs is read, a destination LPAR is generated on another physical computer, and the read configuration information of the LPAR is set to the destination LPAR, thereby enabling migrating of the LPAR when the failure occurs, under the control of a management server.
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| Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system | 20110022570 | 20110127 |
| Integrating a file system with a RAID array that exports precise information about the arrangement of data blocks in the RAID subsystem. The present invention uses separate current-write location (CWL) pointers for each disk in the disk array where the pointers simply advance through the disks as writes occur. The present invention writes on the disk with the lowest CWL pointer. A new disk is chosen only when the algorithm starts allocating space for a new file, or when it has allocated N blocks on the same disk for a single file. A sufficient number of blocks are defined as all the buffers in a chunk of N sequential buffers in a file. The result is that CWL pointers are never more than N blocks apart... |
| Deflectable catheter | 20110021900 | 20110127 |
| A deflectable catheter comprises a catheter body, a tip section, and a control handle for affecting deflection of the tip section. The tip section comprises a flexible tubing having proximal and distal ends and at least two lumens extending therethrough. The proximal end of the tip section is fixedly attached to the distal end of the catheter body. The flexible tubing comprises a plastic core, a metal braid over the core, a plastic skin over the braid, and at least two pieces of plastic tubing in longitudinal arrangement extruded over the plastic skin, wherein the at least two pieces of plastic tubing have different stiffnesses and are arranged with the stiffer plastic being proximal the less stiff plastic. The tip section is made by extruding a... |
| Portable compression chambers | 20110017215 | 20110127 |
| A compression chamber is formed by two end walls (10) and a flexible tubular member (11) extending between the end walls (10). The flexible tubular member (11) is formed from an inner tube (12) of air impermeable material and an outer tube (13) of a braided material. The inner tube (12) is unstressed when the chamber is filled with oxygen or air and the outer tube (13) bears the pressure load.
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| Multi node server system | 20110016201 | 20110120 |
| A server system has, in addition to extensibility of scale-out type of a braid server system, extensibility of scale-up type by making SMP coupling among nodes. Each node has a unit for SMP coupling to other nodes. A module management unit responds to system configuration information to switch between a mode in which the node operates singularly as a braid server and a mode in which the node operates as a constituent module of an SMP server. Links among individual nodes are laid through equidistant wiring lines on a back plane and additionally a loop wiring line having a length equal to that of the inter-node link on the back plane is also laid in each node, thereby setting up synchronization among the nodes. Synchronization of... |
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| Intraoral x-ray sensor with embedded standard computer interface | 20110013745 | 20110120 |
| An intraoral x-ray sensor with embedded standard computer interface. The sensor includes a data transfer cable with improved mechanical strength and heat transferring properties. The cable is quad-twisted USB cable and includes two data lines, a ground line, and fillers twisted within a metallic sheath, e.g., a metal braided shield. The cable is symmetrically organized about a centerline. The symmetric cable has an improved life due to the ability to withstand mechanical stress (e.g., rotational stress). The sensor includes a processor and a housing with an inner metallization layer. The sheath is coupled to the inner metallization layer to transfer heat generated by the processor from the inner metallization layer to the sheath.
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| Shielding tape with multiple foil layers | 20110011639 | 20110120 |
| A coaxial cable of the present invention comprises a center conductor, a dielectric surrounding the center conductor, a shielding tape surrounding the dielectric, a braided metal surrounding the shielding tape, and an outer jacket surrounding the braided metal. The shielding tape comprises: (i) a first shielding layer bonded to a first separating layer; (ii) a second shielding layer bonded to the first separating layer and a second separating layer; and (iii) a third shielding layer bonded to the second separating layer. The present invention eliminates the potential problem of the outer shielding structures separating and interfering with connector attachment. Furthermore, the use of three or more shielding layers in the shielding tape of the present invention improves the flex life of the shield tape by covering... |
| Method for making braided structures | 20110005642 | 20110113 |
| A method for making wicker constructions is proposed, which can be used for interior decoration of buildings as heating radiators screens, light-weight partitions, wall and ceiling panels, furniture elements and door-panels. The method allows decreasing efforts for making the wickering and increasing rigidness and carrying capacity of wicker constructions. The wickered elements are placed into the construction along two, predominantly mutually perpendicular directions. The first direction elements are pre-produced as straps with straight profile or corrugated profile with a step L, the second direction elements are pre-produced as straps with corrugated profile with a step L. The first elements are placed in parallel rows with an interval L/2. The first elements crossing the second elements are placed into their depressions. The corrugated elements can be pre-produced... |
| Device and method for braiding fibers into a braided structure | 20110005371 | 20110113 |
| The invention relates to a device for braiding fibers into a braided structure, the device comprising a braiding machine, comprising a continuous track plate, a forming device, comprising a forming ring, a braiding mandrel about which the braiding machine braids at least one layer of the braided structure, and positioning means to effectuate relative movement of the mandrel and the braiding machine during braiding. The continuous track plate and/or the forming ring are build up of at least two parts that may be separated and reattached to each other, the parts being arranged such as to allow the track plate and/or the forming ring to enclose the mandrel. The invention further relates to a method for braiding fibers into a braided structure.
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| Infrared aimpoint detection system | 20110003269 | 20110106 |
| An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to an infrared weapon aimpoint and triggering detection system that includes an IRED that is modulated in two modes for training and evaluating first responders who are required to enter buildings and raid houses. The IRED mode is either an aiming mode or a triggered mode. The triggered mode is initiated for a short period when the weapon is fired as sensed by a recoil sensing mechanism. An IRED detector and controller sense and process the signal, and may provide output to an instructor, evaluator or a target controller to control the behavior of a target.
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| Fire protective hose assembly | 20110000572 | 20110106 |
| A flexible hose for conveying fluids and suitable for high temperature environments, in one embodiment the hose assembly comprises a thermal paint coated nipple, a core tube, a thermal insulating layer surrounding the core tube, a cover layer surrounding the thermal insulating layer, and a vented jacket surrounding the cover layer. The thermal insulating layer may be a fibrous material such as a silica fiber. The cover layer may be thermally stable up to 750° F. or higher. The vented jacket may be a wire braid having interstices therein and formed from a corrosion resistant material.
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| Disk array apparatus, a disk array apparatus control method and a program for a disk array apparatus | 20100332948 | 20101230 |
| A disk array apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic disks, and a RAID controller that generates redundancy data for host data received from a host apparatus by a primitive polynomial of Galois extension field, generates a redundancy code for the host data and the redundancy data, the redundancy code is a cyclic code calculated by a generating polynomial identical to the primitive polynomial, and writes the host data and the redundancy data to the plurality of magnetic disks.
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| Method for managing a data storage system | 20100332893 | 20101230 |
| A RAID storage system is provided with a plurality of disk drive modules in communication with a processor through a RAID controller. Tools and processes are provided for managing failure of individual modules in the RAID, identifying and managing excess spare modules, and migrating modules among array sites to produce uniform or near-uniform array sites.
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| Wear leveling of solid state disks distributed in a plurality of redundant array of independent disk ranks | 20100332749 | 20101230 |
| A computational device allocates a plurality of solid state disks to a plurality of redundant array of independent disk (RAID) ranks, wherein a different solid state disk is absent in each RAID rank of the plurality of RAID ranks. The computational device determines at least one selected solid state disk from the plurality of solid state disks, wherein the at least one selected solid state disk is estimated to have undergone a greater amount of wear in comparison to other solid state disks in the plurality of solid state disks. Relatively more data and parity information is written to those RAID ranks in which the at least one selected solid state disk is absent in comparison to those RAID ranks in which the at least one... |
| Distributed data storage system using local copy operations for raid-1 volumes | 20100332748 | 20101230 |
| In a distributed RAID-1 (DR1) copy operation, operation of source and target DR1 volumes is first converted to a local-copy operating mode in which the distributed copy operation is converted into a set of local copy operations. Each t is performed at a respective location of the disks of the DR1 volumes and involves copying data of the source DR1 from a first disk to a second disk via a local second communication channel of relatively high bandwidth. Following conversion, the local copy operations are performed at the locations. Upon completion of the local copy operations, storage operations to the source and target DR1 volumes are temporarily suspended, operation of the source and target DR1 volumes is converted back to the normal operating mode, and storage... |
| Hair styling mechanisms and hair styling dolls | 20100330869 | 20101230 |
| A hair styling doll with a hair styling mechanism is disclosed. The doll includes a body with a head to which a lock of hair is coupled. The doll includes an adjustment mechanism that can be manipulated to adjust the length and shape or configuration of the lock of hair. The hair is braided and the adjustment mechanism includes an elongate member that is coupled to the different sections of the braided hair. The elongate member is coupled to the hair in an alternating configuration or pattern such that pulling the elongate member results in the braided hair coiling and forming a bun-like structure.
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| Memory system having persistent garbage collection | 20100325351 | 20101223 |
| Non-volatile memory systems such as those using NAND FLASH technology have a property that a memory location can be written to only once prior to being erased, and a contiguous group of memory locations need to be erased simultaneously. The process of recovering space that is no longer being used for storage of current data, called garbage collection, may interfere with the rapid access to data in other memory locations of the memory system during the erase period. The effects of garbage collection on system performance may be mitigated by performing portions of the process contemporaneously with the user initiated reading and writing operations. The memory circuits and the data may also be configured such that the data is stored in stripes of a RAID array... |
| Electromagnetic interference suppression flat yarn, electromagnetic interference suppression article using the flat yarn, and method for manufacturing the flat yarn and article using the same | 20100323138 | 20101223 |
| a method for manufacturing the EMI suppression flat yarn and article using the flat yarn.
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| Method for manufacturing braided preforms | 20100322776 | 20101223 |
| e) a step for cutting the nested braids (1) unwound from the transport mandrel (3), said cut being performed in a direction perpendicular to the braiding direction.
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| Cable harness | 20100319989 | 20101223 |
| A cable harness has a wire group made of plural electric wires, connector terminals provided at both ends of the wire group, a braid sleeve provided around an outer periphery of the wire group, and ground connecting parts provided at both ends of the braid sleeve that are configured to be electrically connected to a ground part in an equipment. The braid sleeve includes a metallized high tension fiber.
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| Method and system of an adaptive input/output scheduler for storage arrays | 20100318736 | 20101216 |
| An adaptive input/output (I/O) scheduler for storage arrays is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller for deploying an optimal I/O scheduler type per a storage array configuration includes generating performance data by assessing respective performances of a plurality of I/O scheduler types on different RAID level test volumes with at least one I/O pattern generated internally within a storage subsystem which comprises the RAID controller. The method also includes storing the associativeness of the performance data with respect to a particular I/O scheduler most suited for a given I/O workload to a nonvolatile memory of the RAID controller. The method further includes deploying an optimal one of the plurality of I/O scheduler types and at least one... |
| Fixing device for catalyzer particles | 20100316540 | 20101216 |
| This is achieved by placing at least one layer of a metal braiding (10) on the packed bed (3) of the catalyzer particles, and the metal braiding (10) consisting of individual metal braiding elements (11) which are firmly braided together.
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| Electronic device accessories formed from intertwined fibers | 20100316229 | 20101216 |
| Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.
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| Packet processing using braided tries | 20100316051 | 20101216 |
| Packets are processed (e.g., routed or classified) in accordance with a braided trie, which represents the combination of two or more different original tries (e.g., representing different forwarding/classification tables). The different tries are combined by twisting the mappings for specific trie nodes to make the shapes of the different tries more similar. Each node in the braided trie contains a braiding bit for at least one original trie indicating the mapping for that trie's node. Trie braiding can significantly reduce the number of nodes used to represent the different original tries, thereby reducing memory usage and improving scalability. Braided tries can be used for such applications as virtual routers and packet classification in which different forwarding/classification tables are represented by a single braided trie stored in... |
| Fiber-based electronic device structures | 20100315299 | 20101216 |
| Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.
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| Steerable catheter using flat pull wires and having torque transfer layer made of braided flat wires | 20100314031 | 20101216 |
| A catheter assembly includes an inner liner made of flexible material and an outer layer having a steering mechanism. The steering mechanism includes at least one flat wire and a corresponding lumen through which the flat wire may travel. The steering mechanism may also include at least one pull ring to which the flat wires are attached. A layer of heat shrink material may encompass the outer layer. A braided wire assembly may also be provided in the outer layer, and may be formed by braiding a plurality of flat wires into a wire mesh. The overall cross-section of the catheter assembly is preferably substantially circular. A catheter shaft may include a plurality of segments of differing hardness characteristics. The outer layer typically comprises a melt... |
| Method and system for storing excess data in a redundant array of independent disk level 6 | 20100312961 | 20101209 |
| A method and system for storing excess data in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) level 6 are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for storing excess data in a RAID 6 volume includes writing excess data to Q parity blocks of a first RAID 6 volume when a receipt of the excess data directed to the first RAID 6 volume is detected subsequent to a saturation of the first RAID 6 volume, where the first RAID 6 volume is converted to a pseudo-RAID 5 volume with P parity blocks. The method further includes re-computing the P parity blocks of the pseudo-RAID 5 volume based on data blocks of the pseudo-RAID 5 volume. In addition, the method includes constructing a second RAID 6 volume based... |
| Method and apparatus for protecting the integrity of cached data in a direct-attached storage (das) system | 20100312960 | 20101209 |
| A DAS system that implements RAID technology is provided in which an array of solid state disks (SSDs) that is external to the DAS controllers of the DAS system is used by the DAS controllers as WB cache memory for performing WB caching operations. Using the external SSD array as WB cache memory allows the DAS system to be fully cache coherent without significantly increasing the complexity of the DAS system and without increasing the amount of bandwidth that is utilized for performing caching operations. In addition, using the external SSD array as WB cache memory obviates the need to mirror DAS controllers.
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| Disk array, and disk array control method and program | 20100306468 | 20101202 |
| A data management section manages source data from a host apparatus by dividing the source data into a plurality of stripe structure data, and distributes and stores the plurality of stripe structure data in a plurality of storage devices having different capacity. Then, the data management section performs control for determining the length of the stripe structure data according to the capacity of each of the plurality of storage devices, and stores the stripe structure data of the same length in each of the storage devices. Further, the data management section manages, as a chunk structure, a data set configured by each one of the stripe structure data respectively stored in the plurality of storage devices. At this time, the source data is configured by a... |
| Virtual tape apparatus, control method of virtual tape apparatus, and control section of electronic device | 20100306462 | 20101202 |
| A virtual tape apparatus is interposed between a host and a tape device so as to store data transmitted from the host to a logical tape volume. The virtual tape apparatus includes: a data communication unit that receives data transmitted from the host; a RAID device having a logical tape volume for storing the data; a management table that manages attribute information of data stored in the physical tape volume; a position determination section that determines the write starting position of the data stored in the logical tape volume on the physical tape volume based on the management table; and a drive control unit that writes data in the logical tape volume to the physical tape volume based on a result of the determination.
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| Multi node server system | 20110016201 | 20110120 |
| A server system has, in addition to extensibility of scale-out type of a braid server system, extensibility of scale-up type by making SMP coupling among nodes. Each node has a unit for SMP coupling to other nodes. A module management unit responds to system configuration information to switch between a mode in which the node operates singularly as a braid server and a mode in which the node operates as a constituent module of an SMP server. Links among individual nodes are laid through equidistant wiring lines on a back plane and additionally a loop wiring line having a length equal to that of the inter-node link on the back plane is also laid in each node, thereby setting up synchronization among the nodes. Synchronization of... |
| Intraoral x-ray sensor with embedded standard computer interface | 20110013745 | 20110120 |
| An intraoral x-ray sensor with embedded standard computer interface. The sensor includes a data transfer cable with improved mechanical strength and heat transferring properties. The cable is quad-twisted USB cable and includes two data lines, a ground line, and fillers twisted within a metallic sheath, e.g., a metal braided shield. The cable is symmetrically organized about a centerline. The symmetric cable has an improved life due to the ability to withstand mechanical stress (e.g., rotational stress). The sensor includes a processor and a housing with an inner metallization layer. The sheath is coupled to the inner metallization layer to transfer heat generated by the processor from the inner metallization layer to the sheath.
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| Shielding tape with multiple foil layers | 20110011639 | 20110120 |
| A coaxial cable of the present invention comprises a center conductor, a dielectric surrounding the center conductor, a shielding tape surrounding the dielectric, a braided metal surrounding the shielding tape, and an outer jacket surrounding the braided metal. The shielding tape comprises: (i) a first shielding layer bonded to a first separating layer; (ii) a second shielding layer bonded to the first separating layer and a second separating layer; and (iii) a third shielding layer bonded to the second separating layer. The present invention eliminates the potential problem of the outer shielding structures separating and interfering with connector attachment. Furthermore, the use of three or more shielding layers in the shielding tape of the present invention improves the flex life of the shield tape by covering... |
| Method for making braided structures | 20110005642 | 20110113 |
| A method for making wicker constructions is proposed, which can be used for interior decoration of buildings as heating radiators screens, light-weight partitions, wall and ceiling panels, furniture elements and door-panels. The method allows decreasing efforts for making the wickering and increasing rigidness and carrying capacity of wicker constructions. The wickered elements are placed into the construction along two, predominantly mutually perpendicular directions. The first direction elements are pre-produced as straps with straight profile or corrugated profile with a step L, the second direction elements are pre-produced as straps with corrugated profile with a step L. The first elements are placed in parallel rows with an interval L/2. The first elements crossing the second elements are placed into their depressions. The corrugated elements can be pre-produced... |
| Device and method for braiding fibers into a braided structure | 20110005371 | 20110113 |
| The invention relates to a device for braiding fibers into a braided structure, the device comprising a braiding machine, comprising a continuous track plate, a forming device, comprising a forming ring, a braiding mandrel about which the braiding machine braids at least one layer of the braided structure, and positioning means to effectuate relative movement of the mandrel and the braiding machine during braiding. The continuous track plate and/or the forming ring are build up of at least two parts that may be separated and reattached to each other, the parts being arranged such as to allow the track plate and/or the forming ring to enclose the mandrel. The invention further relates to a method for braiding fibers into a braided structure.
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| Infrared aimpoint detection system | 20110003269 | 20110106 |
| An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to an infrared weapon aimpoint and triggering detection system that includes an IRED that is modulated in two modes for training and evaluating first responders who are required to enter buildings and raid houses. The IRED mode is either an aiming mode or a triggered mode. The triggered mode is initiated for a short period when the weapon is fired as sensed by a recoil sensing mechanism. An IRED detector and controller sense and process the signal, and may provide output to an instructor, evaluator or a target controller to control the behavior of a target.
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| Fire protective hose assembly | 20110000572 | 20110106 |
| A flexible hose for conveying fluids and suitable for high temperature environments, in one embodiment the hose assembly comprises a thermal paint coated nipple, a core tube, a thermal insulating layer surrounding the core tube, a cover layer surrounding the thermal insulating layer, and a vented jacket surrounding the cover layer. The thermal insulating layer may be a fibrous material such as a silica fiber. The cover layer may be thermally stable up to 750° F. or higher. The vented jacket may be a wire braid having interstices therein and formed from a corrosion resistant material.
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| Disk array apparatus, a disk array apparatus control method and a program for a disk array apparatus | 20100332948 | 20101230 |
| A disk array apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic disks, and a RAID controller that generates redundancy data for host data received from a host apparatus by a primitive polynomial of Galois extension field, generates a redundancy code for the host data and the redundancy data, the redundancy code is a cyclic code calculated by a generating polynomial identical to the primitive polynomial, and writes the host data and the redundancy data to the plurality of magnetic disks.
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| Method for managing a data storage system | 20100332893 | 20101230 |
| A RAID storage system is provided with a plurality of disk drive modules in communication with a processor through a RAID controller. Tools and processes are provided for managing failure of individual modules in the RAID, identifying and managing excess spare modules, and migrating modules among array sites to produce uniform or near-uniform array sites.
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| Wear leveling of solid state disks distributed in a plurality of redundant array of independent disk ranks | 20100332749 | 20101230 |
| A computational device allocates a plurality of solid state disks to a plurality of redundant array of independent disk (RAID) ranks, wherein a different solid state disk is absent in each RAID rank of the plurality of RAID ranks. The computational device determines at least one selected solid state disk from the plurality of solid state disks, wherein the at least one selected solid state disk is estimated to have undergone a greater amount of wear in comparison to other solid state disks in the plurality of solid state disks. Relatively more data and parity information is written to those RAID ranks in which the at least one selected solid state disk is absent in comparison to those RAID ranks in which the at least one... |
| Distributed data storage system using local copy operations for raid-1 volumes | 20100332748 | 20101230 |
| In a distributed RAID-1 (DR1) copy operation, operation of source and target DR1 volumes is first converted to a local-copy operating mode in which the distributed copy operation is converted into a set of local copy operations. Each t is performed at a respective location of the disks of the DR1 volumes and involves copying data of the source DR1 from a first disk to a second disk via a local second communication channel of relatively high bandwidth. Following conversion, the local copy operations are performed at the locations. Upon completion of the local copy operations, storage operations to the source and target DR1 volumes are temporarily suspended, operation of the source and target DR1 volumes is converted back to the normal operating mode, and storage... |
| Hair styling mechanisms and hair styling dolls | 20100330869 | 20101230 |
| A hair styling doll with a hair styling mechanism is disclosed. The doll includes a body with a head to which a lock of hair is coupled. The doll includes an adjustment mechanism that can be manipulated to adjust the length and shape or configuration of the lock of hair. The hair is braided and the adjustment mechanism includes an elongate member that is coupled to the different sections of the braided hair. The elongate member is coupled to the hair in an alternating configuration or pattern such that pulling the elongate member results in the braided hair coiling and forming a bun-like structure.
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| Memory system having persistent garbage collection | 20100325351 | 20101223 |
| Non-volatile memory systems such as those using NAND FLASH technology have a property that a memory location can be written to only once prior to being erased, and a contiguous group of memory locations need to be erased simultaneously. The process of recovering space that is no longer being used for storage of current data, called garbage collection, may interfere with the rapid access to data in other memory locations of the memory system during the erase period. The effects of garbage collection on system performance may be mitigated by performing portions of the process contemporaneously with the user initiated reading and writing operations. The memory circuits and the data may also be configured such that the data is stored in stripes of a RAID array... |
| Electromagnetic interference suppression flat yarn, electromagnetic interference suppression article using the flat yarn, and method for manufacturing the flat yarn and article using the same | 20100323138 | 20101223 |
| a method for manufacturing the EMI suppression flat yarn and article using the flat yarn.
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| Method for manufacturing braided preforms | 20100322776 | 20101223 |
| e) a step for cutting the nested braids (1) unwound from the transport mandrel (3), said cut being performed in a direction perpendicular to the braiding direction.
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| Cable harness | 20100319989 | 20101223 |
| A cable harness has a wire group made of plural electric wires, connector terminals provided at both ends of the wire group, a braid sleeve provided around an outer periphery of the wire group, and ground connecting parts provided at both ends of the braid sleeve that are configured to be electrically connected to a ground part in an equipment. The braid sleeve includes a metallized high tension fiber.
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| Method and system of an adaptive input/output scheduler for storage arrays | 20100318736 | 20101216 |
| An adaptive input/output (I/O) scheduler for storage arrays is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller for deploying an optimal I/O scheduler type per a storage array configuration includes generating performance data by assessing respective performances of a plurality of I/O scheduler types on different RAID level test volumes with at least one I/O pattern generated internally within a storage subsystem which comprises the RAID controller. The method also includes storing the associativeness of the performance data with respect to a particular I/O scheduler most suited for a given I/O workload to a nonvolatile memory of the RAID controller. The method further includes deploying an optimal one of the plurality of I/O scheduler types and at least one... |
| Fixing device for catalyzer particles | 20100316540 | 20101216 |
| This is achieved by placing at least one layer of a metal braiding (10) on the packed bed (3) of the catalyzer particles, and the metal braiding (10) consisting of individual metal braiding elements (11) which are firmly braided together.
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| Electronic device accessories formed from intertwined fibers | 20100316229 | 20101216 |
| Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.
... |
| Packet processing using braided tries | 20100316051 | 20101216 |
| Packets are processed (e.g., routed or classified) in accordance with a braided trie, which represents the combination of two or more different original tries (e.g., representing different forwarding/classification tables). The different tries are combined by twisting the mappings for specific trie nodes to make the shapes of the different tries more similar. Each node in the braided trie contains a braiding bit for at least one original trie indicating the mapping for that trie's node. Trie braiding can significantly reduce the number of nodes used to represent the different original tries, thereby reducing memory usage and improving scalability. Braided tries can be used for such applications as virtual routers and packet classification in which different forwarding/classification tables are represented by a single braided trie stored in... |
| Fiber-based electronic device structures | 20100315299 | 20101216 |
| Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.
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| Steerable catheter using flat pull wires and having torque transfer layer made of braided flat wires | 20100314031 | 20101216 |
| A catheter assembly includes an inner liner made of flexible material and an outer layer having a steering mechanism. The steering mechanism includes at least one flat wire and a corresponding lumen through which the flat wire may travel. The steering mechanism may also include at least one pull ring to which the flat wires are attached. A layer of heat shrink material may encompass the outer layer. A braided wire assembly may also be provided in the outer layer, and may be formed by braiding a plurality of flat wires into a wire mesh. The overall cross-section of the catheter assembly is preferably substantially circular. A catheter shaft may include a plurality of segments of differing hardness characteristics. The outer layer typically comprises a melt... |
| Method and system for storing excess data in a redundant array of independent disk level 6 | 20100312961 | 20101209 |
| A method and system for storing excess data in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) level 6 are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for storing excess data in a RAID 6 volume includes writing excess data to Q parity blocks of a first RAID 6 volume when a receipt of the excess data directed to the first RAID 6 volume is detected subsequent to a saturation of the first RAID 6 volume, where the first RAID 6 volume is converted to a pseudo-RAID 5 volume with P parity blocks. The method further includes re-computing the P parity blocks of the pseudo-RAID 5 volume based on data blocks of the pseudo-RAID 5 volume. In addition, the method includes constructing a second RAID 6 volume based... |
| Method and apparatus for protecting the integrity of cached data in a direct-attached storage (das) system | 20100312960 | 20101209 |
| A DAS system that implements RAID technology is provided in which an array of solid state disks (SSDs) that is external to the DAS controllers of the DAS system is used by the DAS controllers as WB cache memory for performing WB caching operations. Using the external SSD array as WB cache memory allows the DAS system to be fully cache coherent without significantly increasing the complexity of the DAS system and without increasing the amount of bandwidth that is utilized for performing caching operations. In addition, using the external SSD array as WB cache memory obviates the need to mirror DAS controllers.
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| Disk array, and disk array control method and program | 20100306468 | 20101202 |
| A data management section manages source data from a host apparatus by dividing the source data into a plurality of stripe structure data, and distributes and stores the plurality of stripe structure data in a plurality of storage devices having different capacity. Then, the data management section performs control for determining the length of the stripe structure data according to the capacity of each of the plurality of storage devices, and stores the stripe structure data of the same length in each of the storage devices. Further, the data management section manages, as a chunk structure, a data set configured by each one of the stripe structure data respectively stored in the plurality of storage devices. At this time, the source data is configured by a... |
| Virtual tape apparatus, control method of virtual tape apparatus, and control section of electronic device | 20100306462 | 20101202 |
| A virtual tape apparatus is interposed between a host and a tape device so as to store data transmitted from the host to a logical tape volume. The virtual tape apparatus includes: a data communication unit that receives data transmitted from the host; a RAID device having a logical tape volume for storing the data; a management table that manages attribute information of data stored in the physical tape volume; a position determination section that determines the write starting position of the data stored in the logical tape volume on the physical tape volume based on the management table; and a drive control unit that writes data in the logical tape volume to the physical tape volume based on a result of the determination.
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| Multi-mapped flash raid | 20100306452 | 20101202 |
| Disclosed is a storage system. The storage system includes a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) controller. The RAID controller includes a flash memory controller coupled to a flash memory. The flash memory controller may perform background management tasks. These include logging and error reporting, address translation, cache table management, bad block management, defect management, wear leveling, and garbage collection. The array controller also allows the flash memory to be divided into multiple mappings.
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| Transportable cache module for a host-based raid controller | 20100306449 | 20101202 |
| In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method for an information handling system having transportable cache module is disclosed herein. The information handling system has a memory controller coupled to a central processing unit and a plurality of memory modules. The transportable cache module has a protected memory module, a nonvolatile memory module, a module controller, and an independent power source. The module controller is operative to copy a protected memory region from the protected memory module to a nonvolatile memory region on the nonvolatile memory module. The independent power source is operative to supply power to the protected memory module, the nonvolatile memory module, and the module controller.
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| Caulking die and braid fixing structure for shield wire | 20100300749 | 20101202 |
| A step-shaped receptacle part 22 depressed in a step shape in a circumferential direction is provided in a middle part of an outer peripheral surface 21 of a core body 18 of a core 16 constituting a caulking die 5. Further, a part on a core insertion start side relative to the step-shaped receptacle part 22 is formed in a size smaller than that at the position of the step-shaped receptacle part 22. Caulking is performed by the caulking die 5 having this configuration, so that the fixing state viewed in a cross section in a connection and fixation target part is made such that a plurality of bent parts are formed in accordance with the sectional shape of the step-shaped receptacle part 22.
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| Multifilament braided dental floss | 20100300481 | 20101202 |
| A dental floss is disclosed, consisting of sections twisted relatively to each other along a longitudinal direction at predetermined angles providing a permanently changeable spatial orientation of the sections. The sections each consists of strands braided with each other in a multi-stitch manner so that the sections collectively form a volumetric knit structure having a longitudinal axis. The structure, being horizontally disposed, forms a projection on any axial plane, extended through the longitudinal axis, which projection represents a planar pattern having an upper contour and a lower contour with a periodically changing width therebetween, thereby forming concave and convex portions. The disclosed floss provides for a unique adhesive property increasing the floss cleaning power, grabbing and removing plaque particles from the tooth surface more efficiently than... |
| Storage control device and storage control method | 20090327803 | 20091231 |
| A RAID is configured using plural nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices to enable recovery of data stored in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices, and data is read from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device included in the RAID in response to a data reading request inputted from outside. When an error occurs during the reading, data for which the reading error occurs is recovered, and rewritten into an area of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device in which the reading error occurs.
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| Efficient root booting with solid state drives and redirection write snapshots | 20090327685 | 20091231 |
| A system and method for root booting includes a plurality of computing devices that each boot from a read-only base volume of an attached storage device that includes data common to the computing devices. The attached storage device also includes a plurality of volumes, each dedicated to one of the computing devices, which are redirect on write snapshots of the read-only base volume including unique items for the respective computing device. The read-only base volume may be stored in one or more solid state drives which may be configured as a RAID (redundant array of independent disks) and/or mirrored with one or more other storage drives. The plurality of volumes may each be stored in one or more hard disk drives which may be configured as... |
| Method and system for execution of applications in conjunction with distributed raid | 20090327606 | 20091231 |
| Systems and methods are disclosed which allow various applications which may utilize a distributed RAID system (or other types of applications) to be executed on the same set of computing devices which implement that distributed RAID system. More particularly, in certain embodiments a virtualization layer may be executed on a data bank. A set of desired application programs may be executed using this virtualization layer, where the context for each instance of the applications executing on the virtualization layer may be stored in a volume kept utilizing the distributed RAID system.
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| Storage device, control device, storage system, and storage method | 20090327604 | 20091231 |
| A size storage unit stores therein a block size of a memory element. A buffering unit executes buffer processing configured to store data received from a RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive/Independent Disks) controller into a buffer, and to write the data stored in the buffer into the memory element. A stripe-size receiving unit receives a stripe size that indicates a size of a unit of access at time of access to the memory element by the RAID controller. Writing processing is configured to write data received from the RAID controller into the memory element without executing the buffer processing by the buffering unit, when the stripe size is n times of the block size (n is a positive integer).
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| System including solid state drives paired with hard disk drives in a raid 1 configuration and a method for providing/implementing said system | 20090327603 | 20091231 |
| The present invention is a storage system. The storage system includes a disk array. The disk array includes a disk drive pair which includes a hard disk drive and a solid state disk drive, such as a NAND flash drive. The storage system also includes a disk array controller. The disk array controller may be communicatively coupled with a host server and with the disk array. Further, the disk array controller may be configured for reading from the disk array and writing to the disk array based upon read commands and write commands received from the host server. The disk array may be configured as a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) configuration, such as a Level 1 RAID configuration (RAID 1). Thus, the disk drive... |
| Long nose manipulatable catheter | 20090326484 | 20091231 |
| A long nose manipulatable catheter is described herein. The catheter generally comprises a flexible joint region defining a main lumen and an adjacent wire lumen. The wire lumen has an opening near or at a distal end of the flexible joint region and a push/pull wire can be pushed or pulled through the wire lumen. The catheter assembly may also comprise at least one radio-opaque marker band for securing the push/pull wire. The joint region has a predetermined length sized to affect a flexure of the joint and is generally located at the distal end of the catheter. The joint region itself may be varied to extend distally from where the braid terminates, or it may extend to encompass a portion of the braid. By varying... |
| Manufacture of high temperature superconductor coils | 20090325809 | 20091231 |
| A method for successfully heat treating magnet coils of braided Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2Ox (Bi-2212) strand. The Bi-2212 coil is fabricated using standard round wire powder-in-tube techniques, and braided with a ceramic-glass braid with integrated carbonaceous binder. The coil is heated in an atmosphere controlled furnace below the high current density phase reaction sequence to burn off the carbonaceous binder and evacuated to remove unwanted gases from the inner windings. The oxygen environment is then reintroduced and the coil is heat treated to the high Jc reaction temperature and then processed as normal. As the local atmosphere around the surface of the wire, particularly the concentration of oxygen, is critical to a successful reaction sequence, high current Bi-2212 coils can thereby be obtained.
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| Multi-jacketed fiber optic cable | 20090324181 | 20091231 |
| A fiber optic cable assembly includes an inner cable assembly. The inner cable assembly includes an optical fiber, a first strength layer surrounding the optical fiber and a first jacket surrounding the strength layer. A second strength layer surrounds the inner cable assembly. The second strength layer includes a first set of strength members and a second set of strength members. The first and second sets of strength members are unbraided. A second jacket surrounds the second strength layer.
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| Multi-jacketed fiber optic cable | 20090324182 | 20091231 |
| A method for installing a fiber optic cable assembly includes providing a fiber optic cable assembly. The fiber optic cable assembly includes a first jacket, a strength layer, and a second jacket. The strength layer surrounds the first jacket and includes a first set of strength members helically wrapped around the first jacket and a second set of strength members reverse helically wrapped around the first jacket. The first and second sets of strength members are unbraided. The method further includes routing the fiber optic cable assembly from a fiber optic enclosure to an end location. A portion of the second jacket at an end of the fiber optic cable assembly is split. The portion of the second jacket is removed.
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| Coil wire for coil assembly for rotary electrical machine | 20090322178 | 20091231 |
| Each of the coil wires has a predetermined length, a plurality of straight portions and a plurality of turn portions, the straight portions linearly-extend in parallel in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the overall length direction of the coil wires, the turn portions connect two of the straight portions to be adjacent via first-kinked-portions and second-kinked-portions, the first-kinked-portions are kinked in a second direction substantially perpendicular to both the first direction and the length direction of the coil wires, the second-kinked-portions are kinked in a third direction substantially opposite to the second direction so that the turn portions are formed in a wave-shape in the length direction of said coil wires.
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| Elastic dog leash | 20090320769 | 20091231 |
| A dog leash (10) comprising an elastic section (11) having an elliptical section elastic material (12) and an outer braiding (13) whereby the braiding is woven so that it may extend in a limited amount in the direction of the arrow (14) and be limited in that extension by reason of the limitation imposed by the weave on the braiding.
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| Method of twisting coil wire to make coil assembly for use in electric rotary machine | 20090320275 | 20091231 |
| A method of producing a coil assembly to be wound in a stator core with a plurality of slots. The method prepares a first and a second coil wire each of which is made up of in-slot portions and turned portions, arranges the first and second coil wires in parallel with the turned portions being offset from each other in a lengthwise direction thereof, moves the first coil wire to establish engagement of the turned portions of the first and second coil wires, turns the first coil wire about a pivot where the turned portions engage, crosses the first coil wire over the second coil wire around the pivot, and turns the first coil wire around the pivot so as to twist the turned portions of... |
| Systems and method for collecting data in a vehicle | 20090319116 | 20091224 |
| A data collection system for a vehicle is provided. The data collection system includes a first data collection node configured to obtain data from a vehicle subsystem, and a processor communicatively coupled to the data collection node via a wiring system, wherein the wiring system includes a plurality of conductors and an overbraid surrounding said plurality of conductors, said overbraid comprising at least one fiber optic cable integrally woven therein and configured for the transmission of data related to an operational status of the vehicle subsystem.
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| Steerable guide wire with torsionally stable tip | 20090318835 | 20091224 |
| A steerable guide wire includes a core wire having a proximal end and a distal end. A braided filament is affixed to the distal end of the core wire. An outer coil surrounds at least a portion of the core wire and the braided filament. A proximal end of the braided filament is secured to a distal end of the coil. By locating the braided filament in the distal tip portion of the guide wire, a guide wire is provided that is highly flexible, has a high degree of tensile integrity, and is highly steerable, even in tortuous vasculature. Filter and balloon catheters having braided filaments at the distal end are also described.
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| Composite fiber component produced by braiding | 20090317636 | 20091224 |
| A fiber composite component is at least partially produced by braiding. It comprises a core element which has at least one concavely constructed face that is adjoined by a passage opening. Respective opposite transverse or longitudinal sides of the core element and the side of the passage opening not bounded by the core element are enclosed by a braided fiber composite loop element.
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| Braid-reinforced hollow fiber membrane | 20090317631 | 20091224 |
| Disclosed herein is a braid-reinforced hollow fiber membrane, comprising an active layer formed on the surface of a tubular braid, wherein the braid is made of a mixture of metal wire with polymer fiber. The hollow fiber membrane can be used in separation processes at high pressure due to the pressure resistance thereof, can be used in the separation of organic solvents at high temperature due to the dimensional stability thereof, and in addition, can be used in various applications due to the electrical conductivity thereof.
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| Damage and leakage barrier in all-composite pressure vessels and storage tanks | 20090314785 | 20091224 |
| A linerless tank structure has a body that defines an enclosed interior volume. The body has a cylindrical section having an axis of symmetry and a dome section coupled with the cylindrical section. The construction of the pressure vessel includes multiple fiber plies. At least one of the fiber plies is a helical ply having fibers traversing the dome helically about the axis of symmetry. At least a second of the fiber plies is a braided or woven ply.
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| Hollow fiber membrane for feeding mixture into hollow space thereof | 20090314708 | 20091224 |
| Disclosed herein is a hollow fiber membrane for feeding a mixture into the hollow space thereof, in which the mixture to be separated is fed into the hollow space of the hollow fiber membrane and allowed to permeate through a porous membrane comprising an active layer. The hollow fiber membrane is manufactured by forming a tubular active layer having a hollow space and making a polymer fiber braid, a metal wire braid or a braid consisting of a mixture of polymer fiber with metal wire, directly on the outer surface of the tubular layer, such that the active layer can be prevented from being expanded if a high-temperature, high-pressure mixture is fed into the hollow space.
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| Elastomeric conductors and shields | 20090314510 | 20091224 |
| Systems and methods presented herein provide for elastic conductors. The elastic conductors may be configured with a primary that includes an elastic material and a conductive material. For example, the primary may have an elastic fiber, such as spandex, with a conductive material, such as a braided metal wire, wrapped thereabout. Alternatively, the primary may be configured from an elastic material with a conductive material, such as certain nanopartiuclates, embedded therein. The elastic conductors may be used in a variety of ways to form various types of cables. For example, the elastic conductors may be configured to form coaxial cables, USB cables, twisted pairs, etc. The elastic and flexible nature of the cables may make their uses advantageous in wiring environments that are subjected to strain... |
| Disk array recording apparatus and recording control method thereof | 20090313431 | 20091217 |
| The present invention provides a disk array recording apparatus that is composed of a plurality of hard disk drives (HDDs) and capable of unfailingly decreasing the startup time required between power application and recording operation initiation. When three out of four HDDs 11-14 (e.g., HDDs 11-13) start up, a startup control circuit 4 starts recording input data by using a RAID scheme and causes a substitutional recording medium 19 to substitutionally record the data to be recorded onto the last HDD 14, which has not yet started up. When the last HDD 14 starts up, the data recorded on the substitutional recording medium 19 is accessed to restore the data within a substitution period and record the restored data onto the last HDD 14.
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| Positron emission tomography event stream buffering | 20090313430 | 20091217 |
| PET system including array, data processing, and data acquisition. Data acquisition includes one-to-N channel write striping, N-to-one channel read unstriping, N data storage elements, and control logic. Control logic allocates (statically or dynamically) write/read access to data storage elements. Dynamic allocation can be conditional, e.g., that data storage elements be available to receive all input data from array. Embodiments include an input buffer where the condition is determined dynamically based on capacity of the input buffer to temporarily preserve all input data supplied during periods data storage element unavailability. Communication between array and data acquisition can be Fibre Channel simplex implementing only FC-0, FC-1. Data storage elements have data handling bandwidth equal to or greater than (data output rate /N) plus (data input rate/N). Control logic,... |
| Flexible remote data mirroring | 20090313389 | 20091217 |
| Methods, systems, and configured storage media are provided for flexible data mirroring. In particular, the invention provides many-to-one data mirroring, including mirroring from local servers running the same or different operating systems and/or file systems at two or more geographically dispersed locations. The invention also provides one-to-many data mirroring, mirroring with or without a dedicated private telecommunications link, and mirroring with or without a dedicated server or another server at the destination(s) to assist the remote mirroring unit(s). In addition, the invention provides flexibility by permitting the use of various combinations of one or more external storage units and/or RAID units to hold mirrored data. Spoofing, SCSI and other bus emulations, and further tools and techniques are used in various embodiments of the invention.
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| Continuous double layered stent for migration resistance | 20090312834 | 20091217 |
| The present invention relates to stent structures having improved migration resistance. In particular, the invention relates to mesh stents, such as braided or twisted stent designs, where at least a portion of the stent is folded back over itself to form a multi-layered stent device. Such multi-layered portions provide for migration resistance, among other advantages.
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| Yarns containing filaments made from shape memory alloys | 20090312774 | 20091217 |
| Braids and surgical devices are made from yarns that include at least one filament made from a shape memory material.
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| Sanitary napkin with braid | 20090312729 | 20091217 |
| The present invention relates to a sanitary napkin whose securing means includes a “braid” of absorbent material. The braid structure maximizes absorbency, while minimizing bulk and thus allows the pad to be comfortably held in place during use, in much the same way that the popular underwear are held.
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| Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed raid system | 20090307426 | 20091210 |
| Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed provide a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks. More particularly, in certain embodiments of a distributed RAID system each data bank has a set of associated storage media and executes a similar distributed RAID application. The distributed RAID applications on each of the data banks coordinate among themselves to distribute and control data flow associated with implementing a level of RAID in conjunction with a volume stored on the associated storage media of the data banks. Migration of volumes, or portions thereof, from one configuration to another configuration may be accomplished according to a priority associated with the volume.
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| Method and system for distributing commands to targets | 20090307425 | 20091210 |
| Embodiments of systems and methods for routing commands to a distributed RAID system are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments may route a command to an appropriate data bank in a distributed RAID system, where each data bank has a set of associated storage media and executes a similar distributed RAID application. The distributed RAID applications on each of the data banks coordinate among themselves to distribute and control data flow associated with implementing a level of RAID in conjunction with data stored on the associated storage media of the data banks.
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| Method and system for placement of data on a storage device | 20090307424 | 20091210 |
| Embodiments of systems and methods for a storage system are disclosed. More particularly, in certain embodiments locations of storage devices may be allocated to store data when commands pertaining to that data are received. Specifically, in one embodiment a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks may be provided where the different performance characteristics associated with different areas of disks in the data bank may be taken into account when allocating physical segments to corresponding logical segments of a volume by allocating certain physical segments to a particular logical segment based upon a location of the physical segment or criteria associated with the logical segment.
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| Method and system for initializing storage in a storage system | 20090307423 | 20091210 |
| Embodiments of systems and methods for a high availability storage system are disclosed. More particularly, in certain embodiments desired locations of storage devices may be zeroed out during operation of the storage system and areas that have been zeroed out allocated to store data when commands pertaining to that data are received. Specifically, in one embodiment a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks may be provided where each data bank in the set of data banks may execute a background process which zeroes areas of the storage devices of the data bank. When a command pertaining to a logical location is received a zeroed area of the physical storage devices on the data bank may be allocated to store data associated with that... |
| Method and system for data migration in a distributed raid implementation | 20090307422 | 20091210 |
| Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed provide a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks. More particularly, in certain embodiments of a distributed RAID system each data bank has a set of associated storage media and executes a similar distributed RAID application. The distributed RAID applications on each of the data banks coordinate among themselves to distribute and control data flow associated with implementing a level of RAID in conjunction with a volume stored on the associated storage media of the data banks. Migration of this volume, or a portion thereof, from one configuration to another configuration may be accomplished such that the volume, or the portion thereof, and corresponding redundancy data may be stored according to this second configuration.
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| Process for preparing a cable end for the installation of a plug-in connector | 20080313892 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to a process for preparing an end of a cable, especially a coaxial cable with an outer conductor, especially a braided outer conductor, for installing a plug-in connector, the outer conductor being exposed at the end of the cable, flared radially and bent back over a predetermined length in the axial direction away from the end of the coaxial cable. In the process, for flaring purposes, the outer conductor has a radial force applied to it over at lest part of the circumference of the cable.
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| Acoustically transparent stranded cable | 20080314615 | 20081225 |
| A cable having universal applications for transmitting any kind of electrical signal, including AC and DC power, for sensitive test instruments cables and, particularly, for conducting audio, video and digital signals through a stranded metal wire conductor can consist of virtually any configuration, or randomly—no configuration. The cable can be shielded or unshielded to suit personal preferences or specific applications. The cable is made from wire that can be braided in any Litz wire configuration that provides a desired number of twists per foot. The cable can be used to transmit any type of electrical signal with the results dependent on which gauge of wire listed below is used. The following list includes twenty one gauges of wire which are significant because they represent the lowest... |
| Multiple capillary tubes to dispense vapor | 20080315011 | 20081225 |
| This invention relates to the use of multiple capillary tubes 10 for the evaporation of volatile active substances, in particular aromatics and/or insecticides from a liquid reservoir 40. The intent is to incorporate individual capillary tubes 20 in a single piece made ideally out of a polymer that can resist both heat and organic compounds. The multiple capillary tubes 10 could replace twisted, braided or woven wicks that are currently used in electronic vapor emanation systems that utilize heat 50 or atomization 60. The multiple capillary tubes 10 are extruded in a single piece and then cut to length or individual capillary tubes are extruded, bundled and then cut to length.
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| Cable connector assembly with repairable braid termination | 20080318476 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to a cable connector assembly including a cable connector with metallic cover shells and a cable, said cable including a shielding braid in electrical connection with at least one of said metallic cover shells. A portion of said shielding braid is folded back over a support member provided for said cable to clamp said portion of said shielding braid between said support member and at least one of said metallic cover shells in a clamping portion of said cable connector. Accordingly a cable connector assembly is obtained with improved mechanical and electromagnetic shielding characteristics. The support member is not crimped on the cable jacket and may include multiple parts. The invention further relates to a cable connector and a method for assembling a... |
| Data communication apparatus and method, data communication system, information-processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program | 20080320179 | 20081225 |
| In an AV-data transfer system, AV data stored in a RAID embedded in an AV server is supplied to a client personal computer connected to a network such as the Internet or an intranet by way of the network, and AV data output by the client personal computer is transmitted to the AV server through the network to be stored in the RAID. The AV server makes accesses to the RAID to write and read out data into and from the RAID. In addition to the AV server, the AV-data transfer system also includes another personal computer for exchanging AV data with the client personal computer and receiving a variety of commands from the client personal computer by way of the network in accordance with an... |
| Storage system and storage control method comprising router and switch communication with raid modules | 20080320221 | 20081225 |
| A storage system comprises a router, which receives and transfers commands; a plurality of RAID modules; and a switch, which receives commands from the router and transmits the commands to any of the plurality of RAID modules. Each RAID module comprises a plurality of media drives, a RAID group is provided by the plurality of media drives. Each RAID module comprises an independent RAID group which does not extend into other RAID groups. In the storage system, the router performs transfer of commands without performing analysis of commands, and a processor within the RAID module performs command analysis.
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| Fragrance diffuser using multiple thin artificial wicks | 20080308648 | 20081218 |
| Multiple artificial wicks can be used in water or solvent based fragrance mixtures that will fully empty the mixture from the container without the need to flip the wicks. The wicks can be made from strands of woven, twisted, braided, injection molded or extruded fibers that are natural or man-made. The length to width ratio of the wick should be a minimum of 30 for effective fragrance release. The wick gets fully saturated and remains saturated while providing continuous fragrance diffusion. There is no need to flip the wick over during use to refresh the fragrance diffusion. The wicks can also be fully dyed or pigmented with color. The wicks can also be partially dyed or pigmented with color. A ceramic bisque can also be placed... |
| Optimization of storage device accesses in raid systems | 20080313397 | 20081218 |
| A result value, such as a parity value, for a set of corresponding data elements from a plurality of storage devices is determined using a commutative operation. When accessing the set of corresponding data elements from a plurality of storage devices, a dual access can be performed for the storage device accessed last for the set of corresponding data elements so as to also obtain a data element from the last-accessed storage device for the next parity calculation. As a result, the number of storage device accesses can be reduced compared to conventional systems whereby a single access is performed for each storage device to obtain a single data element from the storage device.
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| Storage system that executes performance optimization that maintains redundancy | 20080313398 | 20081218 |
| One storage area is selected from two or more storage areas of a high load physical storage device, a physical storage device withal lower load than that of the physical storage device is selected, and it is judged whether the redundancy according to the RAID level corresponding to the logical volume decreases when the data elements stored in the selected storage area are transferred to the selected low load physical storage device. If the result of this judgment is that the redundancy does not decrease, the data elements stored in the selected storage area are transferred to a buffer area of the selected low load physical storage device and the logical address space of the logical volume that corresponds to the selected storage area is associated... |
| A braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane | 20080305290 | 20081211 |
| A braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane is disclosed. The braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane comprising a reinforcing material of a tubular braid and a polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface of the tubular braid is characterized in that: the tubular braid comprises multifilaments made of monofilaments having a fineness of 0.01 to 0.4 denier, and the peeling strength of the tubular braid and a polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface thereof is 1 to 10 MPa. In the composite hollow fiber membrane, the fineness of the mono filaments constituting the tubular braid of the reinforcing material is small, that is, 0.01 to 0.4 denier, thus the surface area of the tubular braid contacted with the polymer resinous thin film is increased. Thus,... |
| Connector assembly with improved strain relief structure | 20080305658 | 20081211 |
| A connector assembly (100) includes a housing (2) defining a number of passageways (23, 24) along a mating direction, a number of conductive contacts (3) interferentially received in the passageways of the housing, a circuit board (4) electrically connecting with the conductive contacts and comprising opposite front and rear surfaces and opposite top and bottom edges connecting with the front and rear surfaces, a cable (9) electrically connecting with the circuit board, and comprising an inner conductor (91) a metal braiding layer (92) and an outer jacket enclosing the metal braiding layer, and a strain relief member (5) including a strain relief section (52) grasping the cable and at least one connecting portion (510) electrically connecting with the circuit board. The connecting portion of the strain... |
| Resistance exercise device | 20080300117 | 20081204 |
| A resistance exercise device comprising at least one handle and a cord having a pair of ends and a length extending between the pair of ends, the handle being secured to one of the ends of the cord, the cord being stretchable to extend the length and comprising a plurality of tubes extending substantially the entire length of the cord, the tubes being conjoined together along substantially the entire length of the cord by means of braiding. The tubes are conjoined together such that the tubes are snug along substantially the entire length of the cord and such that each of the tubes is in contact with at least one of the other tubes substantially along the entire length of the cord. The resistance exercise device... |
| Raid system and data transfer method in raid system | 20080301366 | 20081204 |
| There is provided a novel storage system in which the number of signal lines will not increase even if the number of storage devices to be connected in a RAID system increases, and a novel data transfer method to enable a high-speed data transfer even when the transfer rate of the IDE device side is low. A RAID system (10) which is a storage system in which a RAID controller (11) connected to an ATA host and a plurality of IDE devices (12A to 12D, and 22A to 22D) are connected by an IDE bus, characterized in that at least two or more IDE devices are connected to one channel of the IDE bus and said RAID controller and each of said IDE devices are connected... |
| Virtual computer system and control method thereof | 20080301487 | 20081204 |
| When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a failure occurs in an LPAR generated on a physical computer under an SAN environment, configuration information including a unique ID (WWN) of the LPAR where the failure occurs is read, a destination LPAR is generated on another physical computer, and the read configuration information of the LPAR is set to the destination LPAR, thereby enabling migrating of the LPAR when the failure occurs, under the control of a management server.
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| A braided-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane | 20080292823 | 20081127 |
| A braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane is disclosed. The braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane comprising a reinforcing material of a tubular braid and a polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface of the tubular braid according to the present invention is characterized in that: the tubular braid comprises multifilaments made of monofilaments having a crimp rate of 2 to 40%, and the peeling strength of the tubular braid and a polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface thereof is 1 to 10 MPa. In the composite hollow fiber membrane, the crimp rate of the monofilaments constituting the tubular braid of the reinforcing material is 2 to 40%, thus the surface area of the tubular braid contacted with the polymer resinous thin film is increased.... |
| Cable connector assembly with wire management member thereof | 20080293292 | 20081127 |
| A cable connector assembly includes an insulator (1), a plurality of conductive terminals (2) held in the insulator, a plurality of wires (4), a spacer (3) and a metal shell (6, 7). Each wire comprises an inner conductor (41) conductively connecting with the terminals, and at least one of the wires is a coaxial cable (4a) which has a shielding braid layer (43) enclosing the corresponding inner conductor. The spacer is mounted on the insulator and used for supporting the wires. The spacer comprises an inner surface with thereof a plurality of slots (31) for receiving the responding wires and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and a through-hole (32) is formed through the inner and outer surfaces. The metal shell is mounted on... |
| Loop line | 20080283708 | 20081120 |
| A loop line comprised of a pair of side by side cords of equal length and knots equispaced along said cords for joining the cords together and defining loops between the knots. The cords preferably are limp monofilament with knots tied or are string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted or woven together and the knots for joining the cords together are formed by interlacing, braiding or looping the cords. The strands are selected from at least one of polymer, polyester or metal wire fibres. For hanging an item, the loop line has a proximal end terminating at a knot and a distal end terminating in a knot, the proximal end of the loop line is wrapped around or inserted in a hole... |
| Delivery system having a self-expanding braided stent | 20080288043 | 20081120 |
| An insertion system with a self-expanding braided stent (11) for implantation in a blood vessel has an outer sleeve (12) with a distal end (14) and a proximal end. An inner sleeve (16) arranged in the outer sleeve (12) is displaceable relative to the latter and protrudes, with a handling section, from the proximal end of the outer sleeve (12). Moreover, at the distal end (15), there is a tip (18) which is securely connected to a stent support (24) on which the braided stent (11) is arranged in its loaded state. The stent support (24) is arranged to be displaceable relative to the inner sleeve (16).
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| Frp honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing the same | 20080277047 | 20081113 |
| The present invention provides an FRP honeycomb structure which is used as a base structure material for various base structures and which offers appropriate rigidity and compression strength while reducing the weight of the entire structure. The present invention provides an FRP honeycomb structure HA formed by assembling together a plurality of FRP core units CU having the same cross sectional shape so that outer sides of the units are abutted against one another, and hardening the assembled FRP core units CU using a resin material, as well as a method for manufacturing an FRP honeycomb structure HA, the method comprising a core unit forming step of constructing an FRP braid layer 2, 3 around a core member (mandrel) m having a polygonal cross section, impregnating... |
| Detachable aneurysm neck bridge | 20080281302 | 20081113 |
| In one embodiment, a neck bridge for bridging the neck of an aneurysm includes a junction region, a number of radially extending array elements attached to the junction region, and a cover attached to one or both of the junction region and an array element. The array elements are configured to be positioned within the aneurysm after the neck bridge is deployed from a delivery device. In a second embodiment, the neck bridge includes a junction region and a braided or mesh-like structure secured to the junction region. The braided or mesh-like structure is made from an elastic material.
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| Mapping and ablation method for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia | 20080281391 | 20081113 |
| An apparatus for mapping and/or ablating tissue includes a braided conductive member that that may be inverted to provide a ring-shaped surface. When a distal tip of the braided conductive member is retracted within the braided conductive member, the lack of a protrusion allows the ring-shaped surface to contact a tissue wall such as a cardiac wall. In an alternative configuration, the braided conductive member may be configured with the distal portion forming a proboscis that can be used to stably position the braided conductive member relative to a blood vessel, such as a ventricular outflow tract. The braided conductive member has a plurality of electronically active sites that may be accessed individually for stable mapping over a broad area for stable mapping or ablation to... |
| Dynamic input/output optimization within a storage controller | 20080282030 | 20081113 |
| A system and method for optimizing accesses to storage devices based on RAID I/O request characteristics is disclosed. A current I/O request processed by a storage controller is analyzed for relative locality to a previous I/O request, and adjusted over time such that storage device accesses will be efficiently conducted with respect to sequential or random workloads. A storage device access profile is maintained for each storage device based on sequential or random locality characteristics of previous RAID I/O requests. The chunk locations of the two most recent accesses are sampled according to predetermined criteria in order to create a storage device access profile, which governs queue depth and I/O size parameters used to communicate with storage devices. By managing I/O requests to storage devices using... |
| Media operational queue management in storage systems | 20080282245 | 20081113 |
| A method for media operational queue management in disk storage systems evaluates a plurality of pending storage operations requiring a destage storage operation. A first set of the plurality of pending storage operations is organized in a first array queue grouping (AQG). The AQG is structured such that all of the storage operations are completed within a predefined latency period. A computer-implemented method manages a plurality of pending storage operations in a disk storage system. A pending operation queue is examined to determine a plurality of read and write operations for a first array. A first set of the plurality of read and write operations is grouped into a first array queue grouping (AQG). The first set of the plurality of read and write operations is... |
| Protective tube | 20080274311 | 20081106 |
| The invention relates to a protective tube comprising a plurality of threads which are braided, knit-braided or knitted to one another. The invention is characterised in that the length of the cross-section of the threads along a first axis is substantially greater than the length of said cross-section along a second axis which is perpendicular to the first.
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| Threaded catheter connector, system, and method | 20080275427 | 20081106 |
| Catheter connectors, connection systems, and methods in which a catheter is attached to a threaded connector that is inserted into the lumen of the catheter. The catheter may include an elastically compressible inner body that is surrounded by a reinforcing braid that is further surrounded by an optional outer jacket. When the connector is inserted into the lumen of the catheter, the elastically compressible inner body of the lumen may be compressed by and may conform to the shape of the threaded outer surface of the connector to form a fluid-tight seal between the lumen and the connector.
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| Offset catheter connector, system and method | 20080275429 | 20081106 |
| Catheter connectors, connection systems, and methods of use in which a catheter is attached to an offset connector such that the catheter is retained on the connector by compression between a tube located within the catheter and a collar fitted over the portion of the catheter containing the tube. The catheters used with the offset catheter connection systems may include an elastically compressible inner body that is surrounded by a reinforcing braid. After the offset connector tube is inserted into the lumen of the catheter, a collar may be advanced over the exterior of the catheter and the offset connecter tube contained therein.
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| Storage system using flash memory modules logically grouped for wear-leveling and raid | 20080276038 | 20081106 |
| A storage system using flash memories includes a storage controller and plural flash memory modules as storage media. Each flash memory module includes at least one flash memory chip and a memory controller for leveling erase counts of blocks belonging to the flash memory chip. The storage controller combines the plural flash memory modules into a first logical group, translates a first address used for accessing the flash memory modules belonging to the first logical group to a second address used for handling the first address in the storage controller, and combines the plural first logical groups into a second logical group.
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| Data storage system and method | 20080276042 | 20081106 |
| Disclosed are a redundant data storage system (e.g., a RAID system) and a method of operating such a redundant data storage system that provides significant power savings with minimal reduction in reliability. The system and method allow up to half of the memory devices in any of the memory arrays in the system to be placed in standby without significantly impacting the read accesses. The system and method further designate reserved areas in the active memory devices as write-journals, which have at least the same level of protection as the main arrays. The write-journals allow data to be written without powering up a standby memory device. Thus, power consumption is minimized without impacting reliability.
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| Data storage system and method | 20080276043 | 20081106 |
| Disclosed are a redundant data storage system (e.g., a RAID system) and a method of operating such a redundant data storage system that provides significant power savings with minimal reduction in reliability. The system and method allow up to half of the memory devices in any of the memory arrays in the system to be placed in standby without significantly impacting the read accesses. The system and method further designate reserved areas in the active memory devices as write-journals, which have at least the same level of protection as the main arrays. The write-journals allow data to be written without powering up a standby memory device. Thus, power consumption is minimized without impacting reliability.
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| Process for the rapid fabrication of composite gas cylinders and related shapes | 20080264551 | 20081030 |
| A method of fabricating a composite vessel encompassing rapid manufacturing that is applicable to composite hydrogen and other gas storage tanks, both for high-pressure cylinders, as well as low-pressure conformal tanks. The process of fabrication includes using a liner, of metal or plastic materials, over which a braided or developed preform is wrapped. The dry fiber wrapped liner is placed in a mold and resin injected into the cavity formed between the liner and the mold outer walls. The liner is flooded with heated and/or cooled pressurized fluid thus enabling complete and independent process control from within the liner for both the resin injection and the cure phases. Fiber placement control is determined through combined biaxial and triaxial braid/preform design, and by wrapping at controlled tension... |
| Steerable catheter using flat pull wires and method of making same | 20070299424 | 20071227 |
| A catheter assembly includes an inner liner made of flexible material and an outer layer having a steering mechanism. The steering mechanism includes at least one flat wire and a corresponding lumen through which the flat wire may travel. The steering mechanism may also include at least one pull ring to which the flat wires are attached. A layer of heat shrink material may encompass the outer layer. A braided wire assembly, which may have a braid density that varies along the length of the catheter, may also be provided in the outer layer. The overall cross-section of the catheter assembly is preferably substantially circular. A catheter shaft may include a plurality of segments of differing hardness characteristics. The outer layer typically comprises a melt processing... |
| Rapid regeneration of failed disk sector in a distributed database system | 20070300101 | 20071227 |
| A technique for read error failover processing in a mirrored disk system such as a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) system, where individual disk units perform Logical Block Address (LBA) remapping. A read error causes a disk controller to report an “unrecoverable” read error to a RAID controller. After receiving this report of an unrecoverable read error, rather than simply switching over to a mirror, the RAID controller first checks to see whether the disk that caused the error can successfully reassign an LBA. In particular, the RAID controller can retrieve the data that was associated with the failed LBA from the mirror, and then write that data to the offending disk. Only if this process does not succeed is the offending disk then treated... |
| Compliant blood vessel graft | 20070293932 | 20071220 |
| Stents and methods of using stents are provided. Stents of the invention provide external support structure for a blood vessel segment disposed within, wherein the stents are capable of resilient radial expansion in a manner mimicking the compliance properties of an artery. The stent may be formed of a knitted or braided mesh formed so as to provide the needed compliance properties. A venous graft with the stent and a vein segment disposed within is provided, wherein graft is capable of mimicking the compliance properties of an artery. Methods of selecting stents for downsizing and methods of using the stents of the invention in downsizing and smoothening are provided. Methods of replacing a section of an artery with a venous graft including a stent of the... |
| Raid apparatus, cache management method, and computer program product | 20070294475 | 20071220 |
| A cache managing unit creates a list of elements corresponding to each data block arranged based on a priority of writing data blocks to a magnetic disk apparatus, and when a group of elements corresponding to data blocks to be written to the same magnetic disk apparatus exists, provides a link connecting elements at both ends of the group. A write control unit searches, upon selecting a data block for writing, elements belonging to the list in descending order of priority, and if a link is set at an element corresponding to a data block to be written to a magnetic disk that cannot perform a writing, follows the link to search a subsequent element.
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| Method for representing foreign raid configurations | 20070294476 | 20071220 |
| A system and method for previewing a disk drive's disk data format (DDF) metadata before performing an “import” or “clear” method to make it available on a receiving system comprising a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array. A preview method is implemented such that the DDF metadata of one or more disk drives comprising a foreign configuration can be examined prior to importing or clearing the disk. New objects are derived from existing virtual disk and physical disk array objects that have the same characteristics as existing object definitions. These new objects are aggregated to comprise a new foreign configuration object when foreign metadata is discovered on a drive by a receiving RAID controller.
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| Raid management apparatus, raid management method, and computer product | 20070294477 | 20071220 |
| In a RAID management apparatus, a disk determination unit accesses each of RAID devices, determines a copy source disk, and sets a pointer of the determined copy source disk into a disk management table stored in a storage unit. When an input-output (I/O) processing unit accesses a disk, if an I/O error occurs on the disk, as a result a copy source disk and a copy destination disk are switched; the I/O processing unit renews a pointer associated with the copy source disk in the disk management table stored in the storage unit, and a disk notification unit notifies that the copy source disk and the copy destination disk are switched.
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| System and method for fault tolerant controller for network raid | 20070294478 | 20071220 |
| A fault-tolerant and efficient way of deducing a set of inconsistent stripes for a network RAID protocol, wherein clients forward input/output (I/O) to a particular controller device called the coordinator, which executes RAID logic and which sends out device IOs to the relevant storage devices. If the coordinator fails then a new coordinator reconstructs its state from the storage devices.
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| Simplified parity disk generation in a redundant array of inexpensive disks | 20070294565 | 20071220 |
| A method for efficiently writing data to a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) includes: writing an entire slice to the RAID at one time, wherein a slice is a portion of the data to be written to each disk in the RAID; and maintaining information in the RAID for slices that have been written to disk. A system for efficiently writing data to a RAID includes a buffer, a parity generating device, transfer means, and a metadata portion in the RAID. The buffer receives data from a host and accumulates data until a complete slice is accumulated. The parity generating device reads data from the buffer and generates parity based on the read data. The transfer means transfers data from the buffer and the generated... |
| Method and system for bad block management in raid arrays | 20070294570 | 20071220 |
| A system and method for managing bad blocks that utilizes a remapping pool formed across an array of disks to remap bad blocks formed on individual disks. When a bad block is discovered in a particular disk the bad block is then remapped within the remapping pool and is stored across multiple disks.
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| Reporting software raid configuration to system bios | 20070294582 | 20071220 |
| An operating system (OS) agent may write information about hard disk drives associated with a software RAID and/or those hard disk drives being boot configured to a non-volatile memory of an information handling system. Then during power on self test (POST) of the information handling system a determination is made whether a software OS RAID hard disk drive control function has been implemented into the OS. Then a comparison of the stored hard disk drive information is made with the presently operating hard disk drives and if there is any discrepancy then a warning message may be displayed indicating that there may be a problem in using the hard disk drives in a software RAID, and/or booting up during POST into the OS of the information... |
| Hair braiding apparatus | 20070283976 | 20071213 |
| Apparatus having three hinged arms for separating portions of a person's hair during a French-braiding process. The two elongated outer arms attach to a connector body via pivots while the middle elongated arm attaches via rivets, allowing the elongated outer arms to open and close. The elongated outer arms each include a set of prongs extending towards the middle elongated arm. The middle elongated arm includes apertures or grooves in which the prongs of the elongated outer arms can nest. The elongated outer arms also include a securing mechanism such that they can fasten to the middle elongated arm via a post, for example, to maintain the hair braiding apparatus in a closed position. In preferred embodiments, the third or middle arm of the device uniquely... |
| Vascular thrombectomby apparatus and method of use | 20070288054 | 20071213 |
| An apparatus is provided for removing matter from within a conduit. The apparatus generally comprises a separation edge attached to a wire at its proximal end, a frame attached to the distal end of the separation edge, and a membrane attached to the wire and disposed over the frame enclosing its interior. The membrane generally comprises a net constructed from a vaporized metal deposited on a mandrel. Alternatively, the membrane may comprise a braided tube constructed from wire. The apparatus may be employed as a filter or as a means for actively dislodging matter from the wall of a conduit. When employed as a filter, the apparatus is positioned downstream of the matter where it ensures that matter does not escape downstream as it is being... |
| On demand, non-capacity based process, apparatus and computer program to determine maintenance fees for disk data storage system | 20070288401 | 20071213 |
| In one aspect the invention provides a signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions that are executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations to determine a maintenance fee for a data storage system. The operations include monitoring at least one data storage device during operation of the data storage system to determine a duty cycle and determining a current value of the maintenance fee based at least in part on the determined duty cycle. In a further disk drive-based embodiment the operations may include, or be instead, determining a disk drive redundancy configuration of disk drives of a data storage system. The operations then compare the determined duty cycle to a threshold value and assert a redundancy configuration change signal based... |
| White light led, enhanced light transfer powder, phosphor powder and method of producing phosphor powder | 20070278451 | 20071206 |
| The invention discloses a white light LED, an enhanced light transfer powder, a phosphor powder and a method of producing phosphor powder that use a plurality of radiating color lights and include a white light nitride heterostructure. The invention provides a novel solid liquid of a luminescence material with a chemical formula BaαY3βAl2α+5βO4α+12β, where α and β have a value ranging 0.1˜4. The crystal lattice structure of the phosphor powder varies from cubic crystal system to monoclinic crystal system accroding to the change of the ratio of α and β. It shows significant yellow color and yellowish orange color and has very high quantum light emitting efficiency and enduring light emitting time. In such novel phosphor powder base, the invention further develops an enhanced light transfer... |
| Complementary misfet and integrated circuit | 20070278527 | 20071206 |
| Integrated circuits such as semiconductor memories, image sensors, PLA's, and the like have been formed on rigid, planar substrates such as silicon substrates. This has resulted in shapes without flexibility and limited applicabilities. Further, since multiple circuit elements are continuously formed on a flat surface, it has been impossible to produce a non-defective semiconductor memory unless all the circuit elements are fabricated without defects, making it difficult to improve a yield. It is thus devised to weave or braid linear devices into a fabric shape to prepare a planar semiconductor memory, or to bundle up linear devices to prepare a linear semiconductor memory. The integrated circuit comprising the linear devices is flexible and light-weighted, and is thus usable in various applications. It becomes possible to prepare... |
| Composite material braided insulator | 20070282325 | 20071206 |
| A ablation probe includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a dielectric element. The dielectric element is located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The dielectric element includes a fiber braid within another material.
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| Pex pipe for high pressure and high temperature applications | 20070272319 | 20071129 |
| A flexible tubing having a PEX inner core is surrounded by a reinforcing structure, such as a braid. The reinforced flexible tubing meets NFPA Standards for the Installation of Sprinler Systems (13/13R/13D) in both residential and commercial buildings. The reinforced flexible tubing is suitable for a variety of other high temperature/high pressure applications. The tube's flexible characteristics facilitate its installation at a greatly reduced cost, especially in retrofitting existing structures. An adhesive can be used to improve the overall strength and stability of the reinforcing structure surrounding the PEX core. Optionally, a protective outer layer can be applied over the reinforcing structure.
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| Small diameter pipe repair device | 20070272679 | 20071129 |
| A tube shaped and fluid inflatable and electrically heatable in-situ pipe repair device comprising a first outer elastomeric tube layer and a resistive heating component comprised of electrically conductive fibers braided over an elastomeric core. The tube shaped device also contains an inner annulus. The device is fluid sealable and is connectible to a fluid supply and vacuum source. It is also connectible to an electrical power source. The device may also comprise two tube shaped layers configured to fit snuggly together with a resistive heating component held between the two layers. The resistive heating component may be a braided fiber-elastomeric core combination or a conductive fiber configured in a sinusoidal wave or similar pattern.
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| Introducer sheath and method for making | 20070276354 | 20071129 |
| An introducer sheath and a method of manufacturing an introducer sheath. The introducer comprises a first polymeric sleeve having a first striped extrusion arranged in a generally helical pattern along the first sleeve. A second polymeric sleeve is positioned over and bonded to the first polymeric sleeve, the second polymeric sleeve comprising a second striped extrusion that is arranged in a generally helical pattern along the second sleeve. The first and second polymeric sleeves are axially aligned such that the second striped extrusion is superposed over the first striped extrusion to define a generally braid-like configuration. The introducer sheath can optionally include an inner liner disposed within a lumen of the first polymeric sleeve, and/or a coil fitted over the inner liner, such that the first... |
| Method for host bus adapter-based storage partitioning and mapping across shared physical drives | 20070276997 | 20071129 |
| A system for a host-based RAID solution in a shared storage environment is provided in which the compute blades of a system are coupled to one or multiple concentrators. The concentrators serve as a switch or expander to couple each of the compute blades to a shared storage resource. Within the shared storage resource, a set drives is configured in a RAID array. The shared disk drives are partitioned so that each partition is dedicated one of the compute blades of the system. Multiple sets of drives may be used so that the collective set of drives can be configured as part of a RAID volume that includes mirroring between at least two of the drive of the RAID volume, such as RAID 1 or RAID... |
| Adaptive grouping in object raid | 20070276999 | 20071129 |
| A method and system for data redundancy, wherein method comprises storing an object in an object storage device, storing a duplicate of the object in a second object storage device, converting the object into any of a grouped object Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) layout and an individual RAID layout upon growth of the object, and discarding the duplicate object. The step of converting further comprises determining which of the grouped object RAID or individual RAID layout to convert the object into based on a size of the object being converted. Moreover, the step of converting into a grouped object RAID layout further comprises selecting a group based on whether the group comprises other objects similarly sized to the object, wherein the similarly sized objects... |
| Hinged compliance fiber braid balloon | 20070267128 | 20071122 |
| Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices are prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlayer balloon which has been pressurized and expanded to a predetermined pressure or above ambient size, encasing the web with a matrix material to form an assembly with the fiber web bonded to the underlayer balloon. The assembly may have an outer layer formed by inserting the assembly into a preformed outer layer balloon. The overlayer balloon can be bonded to the assembly during a heat set step.
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| Shielded and sealed electric harness | 20070270037 | 20071122 |
| A shielded and sealed electric harness comprises conductors housed in a tubular structure providing protection and shielding, the structure being constituted by a tubular inner textile braid, an intermediate metal tubular braid for electromagnetic shielding, and a corrugated outer sheath having its end adhesively bonded to a heat-shrink endpiece for fastening onto a portion of a connector of a branch joint.
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| Torque-transmitting, variably flexible insertion device and method for transmitting torque and variably flexing an insertion device | 20070270648 | 20071122 |
| A torque-transmitting, variably-flexible insertion device includes a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument and a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument. A vacuum-activated device transitions the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition. A torque braid transmits torque from the proximal end toward the distal end. A method for transmitting torque and variably flexing the insertion device includes transmitting torque along the hollow body with the torque braid, applying suction to create a vacuum in the hollow body for placing the hollow body in the relatively stiff condition, and relieving the vacuum for placing the hollow body in the relatively flexible condition.
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| Composite mandrel | 20070261788 | 20071115 |
| A mandrel for use as a substrate in the manufacture of woven or braided articles may comprise an inner core of foam; at least a first intermediate layer of carbon fiber-reinforced resin; and an outer layer of glass fiber-reinforced resin. The foam core may comprise a high density, closed cell polyurethane foam that is formed of a desired size and shape. The fibers in the intermediate layer and outer layer may be, for example, chopped fibers, continuous longitudinally aligned fibers, circumferentially wound fibers, obliquely aligned fibers, or the fibers may have a woven or braided pattern. Multiple mandrel may be joined together to form complex mandrel shapes such as curves, ovals, and circles.
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| Composite porous membrane and method for producing the same | 20070262017 | 20071115 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide a composite porous membrane, which has not only excellent filtration capacity, but also excellent adhesion between a porous membrane and a braid and mechanical properties, and a method for producing the composite porous membrane. The present invention relates to a composite porous membrane comprising a braid, and a membrane material; wherein the membrane material comprises a first porous layer comprising a dense layer which is arranged on the outer surface of the braid, and a second porous layer comprising a dense layer which is arranged on the first porous layer, and a method for producing the composite porous membrane.
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| Mesh structure for large-scale display screen | 20070262701 | 20071115 |
| A mesh structure for a large-scale display screen having a resolution of (n×m, n, m>1) is provided herein, which formed by weaving or braiding (i+j, i, j>1) linear members. (n×m) lighting units are then individually and fixedly positioned on the mesh structure with a substantial uniform distance among them. Signal and power cables are then laid out along the linear members to connect the lighting units for the delivery of video signal and electricity. The light units function as the display screen's pixels and the distance between adjacent lighting units is the pitch of the display screen.
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| Multi-layer braided structures for occluding vascular defects | 20070265656 | 20071115 |
| A collapsible medical device and associated methods of occluding an abnormal opening in, for example, a body organ, wherein the medical device is shaped from plural layers of a heat-treatable metal fabric. Each of the fabric layers is formed from a plurality of metal strands and the assembly is heat-treated within a mold in order to substantially set a desired shape of the device. By incorporating plural layers in the thus-formed medical device, the ability of the device to rapidly occlude an abnormal opening in a body organ is significantly improved.
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| Anchoring and tethering system | 20070265658 | 20071115 |
| A method and apparatus for providing safe and efficient transcatheter correction of the shape of heart chambers, valves, or other body members. The apparatus generally performs this correction by securing a tether to body surfaces. The attachment device includes an anchor comprising a wire braid and at least one clamp affixed to and constraining a portion of the wire braid, the clamp having threading for temporarily coupling the anchor to a delivery member and an internal lumen through which the tether can pass. The device also includes a locking member cooperating with the lumen to lock the tether to the clamp at a preselected position along the length of the tether.
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| Shielded cable-grounding structure | 20070256853 | 20071108 |
| In a structure for grounding a shielded cable, a braided wire is extended radially outwardly of core covering portions to form a flange portion, and an associated wire is connected to the flange portion by the use of sleeve members, thereby effecting the grounding.
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| Tissue repair device | 20060293709 | 20061228 |
| A tissue repair device includes a closed knotless loop of multifilament flexible material, and a fixation member having a structure that defines a cavity that receives at least a part of the closed loop. The tissue repair device may include a flexible member traversing the loop. The loop may include a portion in which ends of the multifilament flexible material are thermally fused together. The multifilament flexible material may be braided or twisted.
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| Database systems and processes for storage and retrieval of electronic and related documents | 20060294123 | 20061228 |
| A computer system and process involves entry into a RAID storage array of a digital computer system, at a succession of date/time instances, a succession of records of electronic documents, some of which may have corresponding physical originals, assignment of attributes to the records in any data-type formats that characterize the documents, assignment of a succession of unique date/time identifiers to the succession of records in correspondence with the date/time instances of their entry, selection of a range of date/time instances that correspond to a range of the records of documents that are known to be uncorrupted, and selection of groups of electronic documents having logically related attributes within the range of the uncorrupted documents.
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| Disk array access dynamic control device and method | 20060294303 | 20061228 |
| In order to provide a disk array access dynamic control device and a method for improving the performance of a disk array device, the disk array access dynamic control device 1 comprises a composition information storage unit 3 for storing composition information, such as the combination information of disk devices constituting a RAID and the like, a responsible DA control unit 4 for assigning DAs according this composition information or the like and an access unit 6 for reading/writing data from/into a disk device group 2 according to the instruction of an information processing device 5.
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| Xor circuit, raid device capable of recovering a plurality of failures and method thereof | 20060294416 | 20061228 |
| An XOR circuit, a RAID device which can recover several failures and method thereof are provided. A Galois field data recovery circuit having two or more sets of Galois Field engine circuits which are used in the XOR circuit, is one which can generate high efficient parity engine and high efficient flow data route and which at the same time correct the three or more failures during operation of the RAID device.
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| Warm window system | 20060283084 | 20061221 |
| Disclosed is a warm window system that utilizes individual buss bars that are placed within the space between an inside window pane and an outside window pane and creates sufficient physical force to create an electrical contact on the tin oxide layer on the inside surface of the inside pane of glass. An insulating nonconductive layer can also be used in conjunction with the buss bars. That include metal strips, braided wires, spring loaded indentations, etc. The buss bars have a modulus of elasticity to ensure sufficient electrical contact with the tin oxide layer. The buss bars can be used with either hard coat or soft coat tin oxide coatings on tempered glass or annealed glass. Electrical connections and wires are hidden from the viewing area... |
| Binary track safety traverse system reconfigurable to provide safe trajectories over a greater range of inclinations | 20060283349 | 20061221 |
| The present invention is related to the field of mechanical engineering and describes an automatically adjustable system of traverse rails with multiple characteristics that extend the useful life of the sustain by a minimum factor of four while providing redundant security backup to the rails allowing human passengers to move from one place to another in and easy and safe manner with a minimum of noise and vibration while providing the owner of the system benefits of lower maintenance cost and less exposure to financial risk. Also the system can be installed in a multitude of natural places without the need to cut or damage the environment. Using the same components this system offers other configuration options to increase the possibilities of installing a system with... |
| Method for manufacturing audio visual productions | 20060285833 | 20061221 |
| The invention has the aim to process image and sound material recorded with a camera by means of a new inventive workflow, the so called Penta workflow, digital tape or hard disk raid according to HD 4:4:4 standard directly via a specific interface, the duallink system, in an HD-machine, by which the elapsed time of cinematographic material is strongly limited in a surprisingly way, in which the recording and processing equipment is placed as a mobile composition in a van and by which with the above described mobile composition more audiovisual material with a high quality can be produced within the existing budget.
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| Braided comb-shaped salt-resistant polymer thickening agent | 20060287456 | 20061221 |
| Monomer (A) is preferably acrylamide, ethenyl pyrrolidone, 2-acrylamide-2 methylpropane sulfonic acid, and acrylic acid or the mixture of the above said compounds, and in the formula of monomer (B), A is COOH, OH, SO3H, R1 and R2 are H or C1-C12 alkyl, R3 and R4 represent C1-C12 alkyl, C1-C12 alkylaryl, C1-C12 alkyl ether or C1-C12 alkyl ester group. This thickening agent has fine water solubility and good property to thicken water medium. The polymer's molecules present a braided comb-shaped structure in water solution with fine salt-resistant performances. The agent can be used together with the water extracted from oil mines to compound the polymer for tertiary oil extraction, and the polymer solution's viscosity can reach the level of the comb-shaped salt-resistant polymer solution applied in class... |
| Mechanical apparatus and method for artificial disc replacement | 20060287726 | 20061221 |
| The present invention relates to a device and method which may be used to reinforce the native annulus during spinal surgery. The device is a catheter based device which is placed into the inter-vertebral space following discectomy performed by either traditional surgical or endoscopic approaches. The distal end of the catheter is comprised of an expansile loop which may be increased in diameter by advancement of a portion of the catheter via its proximal end, such proximal end remaining external to the body. The expansile loop may be formed of a woven or braided material and may be made of a polymer such as nylon, polyurethane, polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene or any of the well known and biocompatible polymers. Alternatively the expansile portion of the catheter may... |
| Mechanical apparatus and method for artificial disc replacement | 20060287727 | 20061221 |
| The present invention relates to a device and method which may be used to reinforce the native annulus during spinal surgery. The device is a catheter based device which is placed into the inter-vertebral space following discectomy performed by either traditional surgical or endoscopic approaches. The distal end of the catheter is comprised of an expansile loop which may be increased in diameter by advancement of a portion of the catheter via its proximal end, such proximal end remaining external to the body. The expansile loop may be formed of a woven or braided material and may be made of a polymer such as nylon, polyurethane, polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene or any of the well known and biocompatible polymers. Alternatively the expansile portion of the catheter may... |
| Raid power safe apparatus, systems, and methods | 20060288161 | 20061221 |
| Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to sequence write operations and journal a portion of write data in a dual-parity redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) sub-system such that one or more parity strips in a stripe are consistent with target stripe data during the write operations, such that the consistency of the parity strips is determinant following an unexpected RAID sub-system reset occurring during the write operations, and such that the parity strips and the target stripe data are recoverable following a disk drive failure and a power failure occurring during the write operations.
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| Technology for managing storage units | 20060288162 | 20061221 |
| An apparatus manages a plurality of storage units forming a RAID. When a storage unit becomes defective, the apparatus determines whether the defective storage unit can be isolated from other storage units based on a configuration of the defective storage unit. If the defective storage unit can not be isolated, then the apparatus copies data from the defective storage unit a non-defective storage unit and then isolates the defective storage unit.
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| Magnetic disk apparatus, control method and control program therefor | 20060282616 | 20061214 |
| A magnetic disk apparatus capable of effectively achieving speedup of the response to a read request, a control method and control program therefore are provided. In a control of a magnetic disk apparatus having a RAID configuration in which the same data is written on two disks, a given algorism is selected from a plurality of different algorisms with respect to the data stored in the disks, read commands are issued to the data stored in the two disks, respectively, according to the selected algorithm and the data that has been read first by the read commands that has been issued to the two disks in a read command issuance step is adopted as read data.
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| Storage system which controls access to logical devices by permitting attribute modes for the logical devices to be set | 20060282617 | 20061214 |
| There is provided a storage system suitable for an open system which has advanced security functions for logical devices. In a storage system such as a RAID system, 6 types of access attributes which are Readable/Writable, Read Only, Unreadable/Unwritable, Read Capacity 0, Inquiry Restricted, and S-vol Disable, can be set for each logical device. Read Capacity 0 makes a response “capacity 0” upon inquiries from hosts about capacity. Inquiry Restricted does not permit the hosts to recognize logical devices. S-vol Disable does not permit pair forming for duplication of a logical device with another device as the destination of copying. Upon receipt of commands from hosts of the open system, the storage system changes command processes and responses, depending on the difference in operation system, vendor,... |
| Raid write completion apparatus, systems, and methods | 20060282700 | 20061214 |
| Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to respond to a write request from a disk I/O process with write completion status from a RAID sub-system after writing update data associated with the write request to a data strip in a stripe associated with the RAID sub-system and before writing a parity strip update value to a parity strip in the stripe, a Q strip update value to a Q strip in the stripe, or both.
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| Printed dipole antenna | 20060273977 | 20061207 |
| A printed dipole antenna used in an electronic device comprising a PCB comprising some through holes; a grounding element locating on one side of the PCB; a radiating element locating on common side of the PCB with the grounding element; a coaxial cable comprising a inner conductor connecting to the radiating element and a braiding layer connecting to the grounding element; and a short circuit element locating on another side of the PCB electrically connecting the radiating element and the grounding element by said through holes. When the printed dipole antenna encounter an intense electromagnetic field, the interferential signal transmitting from the intense electromagnetic field would arrive to the grounding element through the radiating element. The interferential signal cannot arrive to the system and is unable... |
| Grommet | 20060276080 | 20061207 |
| A grommet includes an elastic main body that has a through hole through which a shielded cable is passed. An abutment surface is formed within the elastic main body. An end portion of a braid of the shielded cable, which is disposed at a processed portion of the shielded cable, is bought into abutting contact with or pierce into the abutment surface.
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| Integrated stent repositioning and retrieval loop | 20060276887 | 20061207 |
| A braided stent having an integral retrieval and/or repositioning loop includes a plurality of wires having first and second ends interbraided in a braided pattern to form a tubular stent having opposed atraumatic first and second open ends with each open end having a circumference; wherein said first and second wires ends are disposed at said second stent open end and said wires are looped at said second stent open end so that none of the first or second wires ends are exposed at the circumference of second stent open end; wherein at least of two of said wires are formed into a repositioning and/or retrieval loop having an elongated portion circumferentially disposed at said first opposed open end; and wherein said reposition and/or retrieval loop... |
| Raid system for performing efficient mirrored posted-write operations | 20060277347 | 20061207 |
| A bus bridge on a primary RAID controller receives user write data from a host and writes the data to its write cache and also broadcasts the data over a high speed link (e.g., PCI-Express) to a secondary RAID controller's bus bridge, which writes the data to its mirroring write cache. However, before writing the data, the second bus bridge automatically invalidates the cache buffers to which the data is to be written, which alleviates the primary controller's CPU from sending a message to the secondary controller's CPU to instruct it to invalidate the cache buffers. The secondary controller CPU programs its bus bridge at boot time with the base address of its mirrored write cache to enable it to detect that the cache buffer needs... |
| Data storage subgroup with local and shared resources | 20060277362 | 20061207 |
| Apparatus for storing and retrieving data such as in a computer network. A plurality of local data storage units each comprise a local control circuit and a housing which encloses a moveable data transducer adjacent a data storage medium. A shared resource module physically interconnects each of the local units, and includes shared circuitry that supplies a resource required by the local control circuits to transfer data to and from the data storage media. In some preferred embodiments, the resource comprises a programming instruction set that is utilized by a programmable processor in each of the local control circuits, such as servo code used to provide data transducer positional control. Alternatively, the resource comprises a shared buffer memory space utilized by read/write channels in each of... |
| Method and apparatus for implementing a grid storage system | 20060277363 | 20061207 |
| Embodiments of the present invention facilitate implementing external storage systems using commodity computer components to achieve high performance and reliability. An exemplary method facilitates dynamic repairing of disk failures for RAID1 storage coherently across a plurality of loosely coupled storage controller computers via message communications through network interfaces. An exemplary method facilitates snapshot function coherently across a plurality of loosely coupled storage controller nodes via message communications through network interfaces. An exemplary method facilitates to detect, tolerate, and repair temporary target device failures in a networked storage system. An exemplary target device may contain a plurality of disk devices, and a temporary target device failure may due to many reasons such as a network or software glitch.
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| Stent-graft with bioabsorbable structural support | 20060266474 | 20061130 |
| The invention relates to a stent-graft with a bioabsorbable structure and a permanent graft for luminal support and treatment of arterial fistulas, occlusive disease, and aneurysms. The bioabsorbable structure is formed from braided filaments of materials such as PLA, PLLA, PDLA, and PGA and the graft is formed from materials such as PET, ePTFE, PCU or PU.
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| Fibrous micro-composite material | 20060268384 | 20061130 |
| Fibrous micro-composite materials are formed from micro fibers. The fibrous micro-composite materials are utilized as the basis for a new class of MEMS. In addition to simple fiber composites and microlaminates, fibrous hollow and/or solid braids, can be used in structures where motion and restoring forces result from deflections involving torsion, plate bending and tensioned string or membrane motion. In one embodiment, fibrous elements are formed using high strength, micron and smaller scale fibers, such as carbon/graphite fibers, carbon nanotubes, fibrous single or multi-ply graphene sheets, or other materials having similar structural configurations. Cantilever beams and torsional elements are formed from the micro-composite materials in some embodiments.
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| Expandable esophageal access device | 20060270978 | 20061130 |
| The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for an expandable access device which includes an elongated braided tube having distal and proximal portions, the tube initially configured in a preformed radially compact configuration that is particularly sized for introduction into a body lumen. The access device has at least one deployment element that is attached to the distal portion of the braided tube and the tube is configured such that as the deployment element and the distal portion are pulled toward the proximal portion, the tube radially expands.
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| Implantable textile prostheses having ptfe cold drawn yarns | 20060271157 | 20061130 |
| The present invention provides an implantable prosthesis and more specifically, an implantable tubular textile prosthesis comprising a biocompatible fabric having inner and outer surfaces and first and second ends; the fabric having a textile construction comprising cold drawn PTFE yarns having a substantially uniform denier and high molecular orientation. Use of cold drawn PTFE yarns result in implantable prostheses that have excellent abrasion resistance, strength and lubricity properties. Useful textile constructions include weaves, knits, braids, filament windings, spun windings and combinations thereof. The prostheses of the present invention are lubricious and have characteristics that closely resemble the properties of a natural body lumen.
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| Stentless support structure | 20060271166 | 20061130 |
| A stentless support structure capable of being at least partly assembled in situ. The support structure comprises a braided tube that is very flexible and, when elongated, becomes very long and very small in diameter, thereby being capable of placement within a small diameter catheter. The support structure is preferably constructed of one or more thin strands of a super-elastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol. When released from the catheter, the support structure folds itself into a longitudinally compact configuration. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase. This radial strength obviates the need for a support stent. The support structure may include attachment points for a prosthetic valve.
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| Stacked drives and analyzer | 20060271733 | 20061130 |
| Stacked data storage devices and analyzer for stacked data storage devices. A stackable data storage device can include a storage medium, a controller, a housing enclosing the storage medium and the controller. A receptacle is coupled to the controller and is configured to couple to an interface of another similarly configured stackable data storage device. An interface is also coupled to the controller and is configured to couple to a receptacle of another similarly configured stackable data storage device. The controller can also include logic that controls storage of the data according to a RAID standard. An analyzer is also described that monitors and analyzes data storage between several stacked data storage devices or a stacked data storage device and a CPU.
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| Location-independent raid group virtual block management | 20060271734 | 20061130 |
| A storage operating system is configured to assign volume block numbers (VBNs) to a volume. The system has a plurality of disks, and each disk of the plurality of disks is assigned disk block numbers (DBNs). A raidmap is configured to map the VBNs to the DBNs of the plurality of physical disks, the mapping for a particular disk stored in a disk label for the particular disk. The disk label for the particular disk is then written to the particular disk.
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| Virtual devices and virtual bus tunnels, modules and methods | 20060272015 | 20061130 |
| Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
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| Attachable individual curls | 20060260631 | 20061123 |
| Attachable, individual curls create desired hair styles by attaching required curls to a patron's head. Curls are formed from natural and/or synthetic hair, have any desired color or size. Curls are offered individually or in a kit containing all curls required for a desired hairdo, including, but not limited to hair-weft, French, spiral, ribbon, fountain-shaped, braided, and fan-shaped curls. A kit may contain curls of one or assorted colors and may be decorated with, for example, sparkles, flowers, bows, jewels, other jewelry items, thematic decorations for various days of celebration. Curls may be disposable or reusable. Kits may contain curls with accessory attachment means and decorative items. If desired, kits and/or individual curls may be purchased with photos of and directions for achieving a desired hairdo.... |
