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| 20080244590 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN A COMPUTER STORAGE SYSTEM BY REGULATING RESOURCE REQUESTS FROM CLIENTS - The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and program storage device for providing non-blocking, minimum threaded two-way messaging. A Performance Monitor Daemon provides one non-blocked thread pair per processor to support a large number of connections. The thread pair includes an outbound thread for outbound communication and an inbound thread for inbound communication. The outbound thread and the inbound thread operate asynchronously. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090138616 | UTILIZING INFORMED THROTTLING TO GUARANTEE QUALITY OF SERVICE TO I/O STREAMS - A system for utilizing informed throttling to guarantee quality of service to a plurality of clients includes a server core having a performance analyzer that compares a performance level received by a client to a corresponding contracted service level and determines if the client qualifies as a victim whose received performance level is less than the corresponding contracted service level. The performance analyzer is further configured to identify one or more candidates for throttling in response to an I/O stream receiving insufficient resources by determining if the client qualifies as a candidate whose received performance level is better than the corresponding contracted service level. The server core further includes a scheduler that selectively and dynamically issues a throttling command to the candidate client, and provides a quality of service enforcement point by concurrently monitoring a plurality of I/O streams to candidate clients and concurrently throttling commands to the candidate clients. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090297956 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY WITH OPTICAL MASKS HAVING MORE TRANSPARENT FEATURES SURROUNDED BY LESS TRANSPARENT FEATURES - In photolithographic exposure, a feature ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100042991 | BUSINESS-IN-A-BOX INTEGRATION SERVER AND INTEGRATION METHOD - The present invention is related to a business-in-a-box (BiB) integration server and BiB integration method. The BiB integration server includes a software package acquisition module for acquiring the installation package of at least one piece of software according to an installation information; a software installation module, for installing at least one piece of software on at least one hardware platform that constitutes the BiB according to the installation information; and a software package transmission module, for transmitting the software installation package to at least one client terminal. The present invention further provides a BiB service system, comprising a BiB apparatus, and a BiB remote console for controlling the BiB apparatus. Further, the present invention provides a BiB integration method corresponding to the BiB integration server. Through the apparatus and method, it is achieved flexible integration of hardware and software, allowing a third party to freely plug in new software and to manage the installed software. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100068658 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC PATTERNING OF ARRAYS OF PILLARS HAVING WIDTHS AND LENGTHS BELOW THE EXPOSURE WAVELENGTHS - A pillar array is printed in positive photoresist using an optical mask ( | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100250825 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING FILES AND DIRECTORIES TO A LOCAL OR REMOTE HOST - A method and apparatus are disclosed for mounting at least one file to a host. The method comprises creating a virtual device image comprising a logical block address table. The method further comprises writing information regarding a block address and a size of an occupied space of the at least one file into the logical block address table, the information being calculated according to a format of a normal device image file system. Moreover, the method comprises recording in the logical block address table a file address map relationship comprising a map from the block address of the at least one file to a real position of the at least one file outside of the virtual device image. Furthermore, the method comprises mounting the virtual device image to the host. At least one directory may be mounted in addition to or in lieu of the at least one file. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100332890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT - A system and method are provided for virtual machine management. The system comprises a virtual machine manager, a blade server management module, at least one blade server, and a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager comprises an abnormal event receiving module for receiving information about a blade server having a hardware problem directly from the blade server management module and additionally a virtual machine management module for sending a processing command to a virtual machine hypervisor on the blade server having the hardware problem. The virtual machine management module receives the information about the hardware problem from the abnormal event receiving module. The processing command is determined in accordance with the information about the hardware problem and strategies for handling predefined hardware problems. | 12-30-2010 |
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| 20100312762 | Multi-Core Scheduling for Parallel Queries - An operator manager may be configured to determine a number of available cores and to assign the cores among a plurality of operators of a query, the operators including a running set of operators through which a plurality of query paths exist. The operator manager may include a status monitor configured to determine the number of available cores and to determine the running set of operators, a critical path selector configured to determine a critical path of the query from among the query paths and the running set of operators, and a workload manager configured to assign a first core of the available cores to a running operator of the running set and of the critical path, and to thereafter receive a new critical path from the critical path selector and to assign a second core of the available cores to the running operator of the new critical path. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100318495 | CORRELATION AWARE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR NEAR REAL-TIME DECISION SUPPORT - A query handler may be configured to receive a query which is applicable against different combinations of a plurality of remote databases and a corresponding plurality of replica databases including at least some replicated data of respective ones of the remote databases, wherein the query arrives at a plurality of query arrival times and is executed at a plurality of query execution times. A replication manager may be configured to execute a synchronization plan for at least one selected replica database in which a selected synchronization timestamp of the at least one selected replica database is updated to a target synchronization timestamp, wherein the synchronization occurs during a synchronization processing time. A synchronization scheduler may be configured to schedule the synchronization plan to increase an information value of a query response, including selecting the target synchronization timestamp including relating the synchronization processing time to a selected query execution time. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318559 | Information Value-Driven Near Real-Time Decision Support - Information-based decision support may be provided by a query handler configured to receive a query which is applicable against different combinations of a plurality of remote databases and a corresponding plurality of replica databases including at least some replicated data of respective ones of the remote databases, wherein each replica database is synchronized with a corresponding remote database at a plurality of synchronization times and the different combinations include future versions of the replica databases defined by corresponding synchronization times. A query plan generator may be configured to determine information values associated with at least a subset of the different combinations, based on a query value associated with the query and on a diminishment of the query value caused by a corresponding combination, and further configured to generate, based on the information values, a query plan including at least one combination of the different combinations for executing the query therewith. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325281 | SLA-Compliant Placement of Multi-Tenant Database Applications - A placement manager may be configured to determine a placement of a plurality of tenant databases with a plurality of servers. The placement manager may include an input handler configured to determine constraints of a service level agreement (SLA) governing an association of the plurality of tenant databases with the plurality of servers and computational constraints associated with the plurality of servers, a chromosome comparator configured to compare a plurality of chromosomes, each chromosome including a potential placement of each of the plurality of tenant databases with one of the plurality of servers, and configured to compare each of the plurality of chromosomes based on compliance with the SLA constraints and relative to the computational constraints, to thereby output a selected subset of the plurality of chromosomes. The placement manager also may include a chromosome combiner configured to combine chromosomes of the selected subset to obtain a next generation of chromosomes for output to the chromosome comparator for comparison therewith of the next generation of chromosomes with respect to the SLA constraints and the computational constraints. | 12-23-2010 |
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| 20100265901 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting channel state information from an user equipment in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The user equipment transmits a spatial channel matrix or a spatial channel covariance matrix irrespective of a feedback type. The user equipment is able to additionally transmit noise plus interference variance information of a whole bandwidth used for the channel state information. In this case, the user equipment is able to transmit normalized spatial channel matrix or spatial channel covariance matrix and normalized noise plus interference variance information for accurate and efficient transmission of the channel state information. The user equipment receives an allocation of an uplink resource from a base station and is then able to map the spatial channel matrix or the spatial channel covariance matrix to the allocated resource according to a specific pattern. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100291940 | Apparatus and Method for Transmitting CoMP Feedback Information - A method of efficiently transmitting CoMP feedback information from an user equipment, which performs CoMP operation, in a wireless communication system to reduce inter-cell interference is disclosed. The user equipment requests a neighboring cell, which affects the user equipment through interference, to restrict use of a specific beam pattern group in a serving cell direction. In this case, whether the user equipment will request such restriction is determined based on a channel status value of the user equipment. If the user equipment determines to request such restriction, the user equipment transmits a request message to a serving base station, the request message requesting to restrict use of the specific beam pattern group. In this case, the user equipment performs scheduling and requests a specific neighboring cell to restrict use of the specific beam pattern group at a specific resource region. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20120128050 | FEEDBACK SCHEME FOR MULTI-CELL INTERFERENCE MITIGATION CONSIDERATION LEGACY MOBILE USERS - The present invention relates to a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system and more particularly, to a method for precoding matrix index (PMI) restriction/recommendation in a multi-cell wireless communication system. A method of codebook based precoding matrix index (PMI) feedback considering legacy mobile stations in a multi-cell wireless communication system comprises measuring a channel from at least one neighboring base station generating interference with a signal received from a serving base station; determining a first PMI in which the interference is maximized from PMIs included in a first codebook, wherein the first PMI is determined based on the measured channel; determining a first PMI group including PMIs having high correlation to the first PMI from the PMIs included in the first codebook; determining a second PMI in which the interference is maximized from PMIs included in a second codebook, where in the second codebook is for the legacy mobile stations; determining a second PMI group including PMIs having high correlation to the second PMI from the PMIs included in the second codebook; and transmitting feedback information including the first PMI, a first subset bit indicating the first PMI group, the second PMI and a second subset bit indicating the second PMI group to the serving base station. | 05-24-2012 |
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| 20100264922 | System for Multi Nucleus Cardiac MR Imaging and Spectroscopy - A system for respiratory motion compensated MR imaging or spectroscopy, comprises an MR imaging system. The MR imaging system performs a single imaging scan including, acquiring a first imaging data set representing a spatially localized first imaging region located on a patient diaphragm, using a first RF excitation pulse sequence and by transmitting a nuclei excitation first resonant frequency and receiving data substantially at the first resonant frequency. The MR imaging system derives data representing diaphragm position over a respiratory cycle using the first imaging data set, in the single imaging scan. The MR imaging system in response to determining the diaphragm position is within a predetermined window, acquires a second anatomical imaging data set representing a spatially localized second imaging region using a second RF excitation pulse sequence and by transmitting a nuclei excitation second resonant frequency different to the first resonant frequency and receiving data substantially at the second resonant frequency in the single imaging scan. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110115484 | ULTRA FAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-CONTRAST AGENT MR ANGIOGRAPHY USING ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH OR PULSE TRIGGERED HALF FOURIER TURBO SPIN ECHO-BASED ACQUISITION WITH VARIABLE FLIP ANGLE EVOLUTION AND HIGH RESOLUTION - In a magnetic resonance imaging method for non-contrast imaging of blood at a region in the subject's body, a first 3D MR image is acquired represented by a first 3D volume data set of the region at a first trigger delay time. The first 3D image is acquired using a substantially 90° excitation pulse followed by a plurality of variable flip angle refocus pulses forming an echo train where the refocus pulses are smaller than or equal to 180°. To form the first 3D MR image, multiple MR slices are acquired related to the first trigger delay time to speed up the acquisition of the first image. A second 3D MR image is acquired represented by a second 3D volume data set at the same region using the same steps for acquiring the first 3D MR image except that a second trigger delay time is used which is different than the first trigger delay time. The first 3D volume data set and the second 3D volume data set are subtracted to create a third 3D volume data set. From the third 3D volume data set a 2D substantially maximum intensity projection data set is created which may then be displayed to show the blood at the region. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110263970 | System for Non-Contrast Enhanced MR Anatomical Imaging - A system for Non-Contrast Agent enhanced MR imaging, includes an MR image acquisition device that acquires first and second datasets representing first and second image slabs individually comprising multiple image slices acquired at fast and slow blood flow portions of a heart cycle and oriented substantially perpendicular in at least one axis to direction of vasculature blood flow, in response to a heart cycle synchronization signal. An image data processor processes imaging datasets representing the first and second image slabs to provide first and second volume datasets representing a 3D volume imaged at the fast blood flow portion and the slow blood flow portion respectively and for providing a difference dataset representing an image difference between the first and second volume datasets and enhancing arterial blood flow. A display processor provides data representing an image showing the enhanced arterial blood flow. | 10-27-2011 |
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| 20080264008 | Filter element having sealing members and methods - A filter arrangement includes a media construction comprising a corrugated sheet secured to a flat sheet rolled into a coiled construction. A frame and a first seal member are provided. The frame secures the first seal member to the coiled construction. The first seal member is preferably oriented to form a radial seal with a housing. A second seal member is secured to the outer annular surface of the coiled construction. The second seal member includes a gasket extension having first and second opposite ends; an attachment portion; and a protrusion extending from the attachment portion. The second seal member is preferably oriented to form an axial seal with a housing. Air cleaners preferably utilizing filter arrangements as described herein operably installed within housings. Methods of installing, filtering, assembling, and servicing preferably include arrangements as described herein. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100146920 | AIR CLEANER; AIR FILTER CARTRIDGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING - According to the present disclosure an air cleaner and air filter cartridge arrangement is provided. The air filter cartridge is a removable and replaceable cartridge for use in the air cleaner. The cartridge includes, among other things, an end cap having a preferred outwardly directed radial seal and a groove. The air cleaner includes a housing with a ring projecting into an interior, positioned to project against an end of the filter cartridge, when the filter cartridge is mounted for use. Methods of assembly and installation are described. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100186358 | FILTER ELEMENT HAVING SEALING MEMBERS AND METHODS - A filter arrangement includes a media construction comprising a corrugated sheet secured to a flat sheet rolled into a coiled construction. A frame and a first seal member are provided. The frame secures the first seal member to the coiled construction. The first seal member is preferably oriented to form a radial seal with a housing. A second seal member is secured to the outer annular surface of the coiled construction. The second seal member includes a gasket extension having first and second opposite ends; an attachment portion; and a protrusion extending from the attachment portion. The second seal member is preferably oriented to form an axial seal with a housing. Air cleaners preferably utilizing filter arrangements as described herein operably installed within housings. Methods of installing, filtering, assembling, and servicing preferably include arrangements as described herein. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110265437 | FILTER ELEMENT HAVING SEALING MEMBERS AND METHODS - A filter arrangement includes a media construction comprising a corrugated sheet secured to a flat sheet rolled into a coiled construction. A frame and a first seal member are provided. The frame secures the first seal member to the coiled construction. The first seal member is preferably oriented to form a radial seal with a housing. A second seal member is secured to the outer annular surface of the coiled construction. The second seal member includes a gasket extension having first and second opposite ends; an attachment portion; and a protrusion extending from the attachment portion. The second seal member is preferably oriented to form an axial seal with a housing. Air cleaners preferably utilizing filter arrangements as described herein operably installed within housings. Methods of installing, filtering, assembling, and servicing preferably include arrangements as described herein. | 11-03-2011 |