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20080275962 | Remote access providing computer system and method for managing same - A computer system for providing a remote access service includes a unit for acquiring information on a relation between a terminal and a user using the terminal, a unit for acquiring network information about the terminal, a unit for acquiring network information about a blade that the terminal will access, a unit for acquiring information on a relation between the blade and a storage area, and a management server for extracting information on the user and its usage information and providing these information in real time. The management server also has a unit for permitting an administrator of the management server, persons other than the user and a management program to use the blade. | 11-06-2008 |
20080307099 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND PRIORITY CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a priority control method for controlling a priority of data transmission in a computer system including a storage system that has a plurality of volumes, a host computer that uses the volumes, a management computer that sets a priority of data transmission between each volume and the host computer, and a network that is composed of a network device controls the priority of data transmission and provides a connection path between the storage system and the host computer. Executed in the method are a first step of obtaining from the storage system information on a first priority assigned to each volume in the storage system and a capacity of a cache memory allocated to each volume, a second step of determining a second priority of the volume on the connection path through the network by referring the obtained information, a third step of notifying the host computer of the determined second priority, a fourth step of obtaining identification of the connection path corresponding to the determined second priority of the volume, and a fifth step of setting the obtained identification to the network device. | 12-11-2008 |
20100061257 | NETWORK MONITORING DEVICE, NETWORK MONITORING METHOD, AND NETWORK MONITORING PROGRAM - Information on a communication relation or communication path to be monitored is automatically generated to reduce load of a user. A path information generation part of a network monitoring device receives a destination IP address designated by a user as an object of monitoring. When the input of the destination IP address is received, the path information generation part uses configuration information tables, which store configuration information of a device on a network being monitoring, to identify IP addresses of networks to which a plurality of terminals belong, as branch IP addresses. Further, the path information generation part uses the configuration information tables and transfer destination information tables which store a routing table of a router on the network, in order to identify the connection order of routers between the designated destination IP address and the identified branch IP addresses, to generate path information. | 03-11-2010 |
20110188400 | NETWORK MONITORING DEVICE, NETWORK MONITORING METHOD, AND NETWORK MONITORING PROGRAM - Information on a communication relation or communication path to be monitored is automatically generated to reduce load of a user. A path information generation part receives a destination IP address designated by a user, through an input receiving part. When the input of the destination IP address is received, the path information generation part uses configuration information tables, each of which stores configuration information of a device on a network, to identify IP addresses of networks each having a plurality of terminals, as branch IP addresses. The path information generation part uses the configuration information tables and transfer destination information tables each storing a routing table of a router, to identify the connection order of routers between the designated destination IP address and the identified branch IP addresses, to generate path information. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196968 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system that achieves effective utilization of physical servers' resources in a virtual client system is provided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110314138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSE ANALYSIS CONFIGURATION CHANGE - In a computer system that comprises multiple target computers and an analysis computer, one or more first target computers, in which a predetermined application has been installed and invoked, send a log comprising information of multiple configuration changes that have been made prior to invoking the predetermined application to the analysis computer, and the analysis computer receives the log and computes, for each type of configuration change and based on the log, an invocation failure rate which is a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application fails subsequent to the configuration change. Then, a second target computer receives, from the analysis computer, first information comprising an invocation failure rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application, and based on the invocation failure rate, displays the type of configuration change that is the cause of the failure of the predetermined application invocation. | 12-22-2011 |
20120102542 | SECURITY MONITORING APPARATUS, SECURITY MONITORING METHOD, AND SECURITY MONITORING PROGRAM BASED ON A SECURITY POLICY - A management server monitors even the occurrence of items, which are not targets of security policies, evaluates a change of the monitoring result, and implements specific output when necessary. Particularly, also regarding items which are considered to be non-targets of the security policies in management based on the security policies, the occurrence of such items is also monitored and the monitoring result is appropriately reported to an administrator so that the administrator can recognize a threat and takes necessary countermeasure at appropriate timing. | 04-26-2012 |
20130263222 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT METHOD - With a plurality of computer apparatuses connected to a network, operation log information, including an operation type and an output destination of a file, and acquisition source information indicating an acquisition source of the file are recorded based on a user's input/output operation; the acquisition source information is managed by relating it with an access authority over the acquisition source of the file; when the operation log information for the user's output operation exists in the operation log information, a range of the access authority over the acquisition source of an output target file, which is a target of the user's output operation, and an addressee user who can access an output destination of the output target file are specified; whether or not the addressee user belongs to the range of the access authority over the acquisition source of the output target file is judged; and if a negative judgment result is obtained, risk information indicating that the user's output operation is an output outside the range of the access authority. | 10-03-2013 |
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20140059335 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ACTIVATION METHOD - An information processing apparatus manages activation of a program by a task which is a unit of execution, and executes a task for each sequence in units of process block. The information processing apparatus has a nonvolatile memory which keeps an execution state management table. The execution state of the process block is stored in the execution state management table. The control unit performs a first activation procedure which initializes the execution state management table and, while updating the execution state in the execution state management table, executes the task. When activation by the first activation procedure has failed, the control unit performs activation by a second activation procedure and identifies a suspicious sequence. When activation by the second activation procedure has failed, the control unit performs activation by a third activation procedure and identifies a suspicious task. | 02-27-2014 |
20140095921 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STARTUP PROGRAM, AND STARTUP METHOD - An information processing apparatus that performs a startup control of redundantly configured modules includes a memory to retain abnormality information regarding an abnormality that occurs at time of startup control of the modules, and a startup controller section executing a startup process by sequentially executing the process, generating the abnormality information, determining whether a reduced operation is possible or not when the module in which an abnormality occurs at the time of startup control is detected, completing an execution of the process block in progress when it is determined that the reduced operation is possible, executing a restart process on a module selected from all the modules in which abnormalities occur at the time of startup control based on the abnormality information and completing an execution of the process block in progress after completing the restart process when determined that the reduced operation is not possible. | 04-03-2014 |
20140140135 | STORAGE DEVICE, RECOVERY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECOVERY PROGRAM - A storage device includes a control device that controls an access to storage, a volatile memory that stores data that is used for operation control of the control device, and a non-volatile memory is a backup destination of the data. Furthermore a storage device includes a detection unit that detects a failure occurred in the control device, a determination unit that determines whether or not backup data that is stored in the non-volatile memory is valid when the detection unit detects the failure occurred in the control device, and a control unit that causes the control device to execute a first processing of restoring the backup data of the non-volatile memory in the volatile memory after restart-up without backup of the data of the volatile memory, when the determination unit determines that the backup data of the non-volatile memory is valid. | 05-22-2014 |
20140173337 | STORAGE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage-apparatus has a plurality of storage-devices and a controller for controlling data read from and write to the plurality of storage-devices, the controller includes a determination-unit and a restore-processing-unit, when a new storage-device has failed in a non-redundant state being a redundant group state without redundancy, in which some of the storage-devices had failed out of the plurality of storage-devices, the determination-unit configured to determine whether execution of compulsory restore of the redundant group is possible or not on the basis of a failure cause of the plurality of failed storage-devices, and if the determination unit determines that the execution of compulsory restore of the redundant group is possible, the restore-processing-unit configured to incorporate a plurality of storage-devices including a newly failed storage-device in the non-redundant state into the redundant group and to compulsorily restore the storage-apparatus to an available state. | 06-19-2014 |
20140289493 | CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN CONTROL PROGRAM - A control device including a processor. The processor configured to allocate a data area of a memory device to a plurality of memory areas of data blocks of a first size; allocate identical data blocks of the first size to a plurality of the data areas of the memory device; manage management information indicating a data storing state of the plurality of memory areas of data blocks of the first size in each data area; determine, based on the management information regarding a plurality of data areas allocated with respect to a data block to be written, one data area from the plurality of data areas; and generate write data of a second size, which is different from the first size, including data of the data block to be written and write the write data in the one data area. | 09-25-2014 |
20150121021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICES - Write commands for a storage device specify write data with either a first data step size or a second data step size. In the former case, the storage device performs a read-modify-write (RMW) cycle which includes reading data with the second data step size. In the latter case, the storage device executes the command in a single write cycle. A command sorting unit sorts received commands into two groups, first commands and second commands, when storing them in a memory. First commands are write commands whose data boundaries do not match with the second data step size. Second commands include write commands whose data boundaries match with the second data step size. A command issuing unit converts first commands into a second command upon predetermined conditions. The command issuing unit issues the second commands to the storage device, in preference to the first commands. | 04-30-2015 |
20150324301 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A storage unit stores a first control program that includes an encryption program and version information indicating the version number of the encryption program. When backing up configuration data, an operation unit stores encrypted data obtained by encrypting the configuration data, a first part of the encryption program used for the encryption, and the version information in a non-volatile storage medium. After the first control program is updated to a second control program, the operation unit obtains a second part of the encryption program corresponding to the version number registered in the non-volatile storage medium from the second control program, and then generates the encryption program to be used for decrypting the encrypted data stored in the non-volatile storage medium, using the second part and the first part stored in the non-volatile storage medium. | 11-12-2015 |
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20120302253 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND MOBILE USER TERMINAL - The communication apparatus includes an IF that receives positioning information of a mobile user terminal from the mobile user terminal which is able to communicate by using at least one wireless communication scheme; and a controller that detects one or more communicable areas that allow communication by using the at least one wireless communication scheme, by determining which area includes a position indicated by the positioning information among a plurality of areas. | 11-29-2012 |
20140080486 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A wireless communications system includes a SeGW, a femto base station, and a macro base station. The SeGW is coupled to a higher-level station. The femto base station is coupled to the SeGW through a wired broadband connection. The macro base station is coupled to the SeGW through a dedicated line. The femto base station measures the quality of the wired broadband connection using first time information and second time information when a mobile station performs a handover from the macro base station to the femto base station. The first time information represents the time when data forwarded from the macro base station to the femto base station is transmitted. The second time information represents the time when the data is received. | 03-20-2014 |
20160100454 | RELAY DEVICE AND SESSION CONTROL METHOD - The relay device is configured to relay packet data between an information processing device and a mobile equipment, and the relay device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive, from the information processing device, a session release request that requests release of a communication session set between the mobile equipment and the information processing device, and when there is not a wireless resource allocated to the mobile equipment, transmit a session release response to the session release request to the information processing device without transmitting the session release request to the mobile equipment. | 04-07-2016 |
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20150033763 | MATERIAL FOR MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION DEVICE - A composite material for magnetic refrigeration is provided. The composite material for magnetic refrigeration includes a magnetocaloric effect material having a magnetocaloric effect; and a heat conductive material dispersed in the magnetocaloric effect material. The heat conductive material is at least one selected from the group consisting of a carbon nanotube and a carbon nanofiber. | 02-05-2015 |
20150194246 | PERMANENT MAGNET, MOTOR, AND GENERATOR - A permanent magnet includes: a composition expressed by a composition formula: R | 07-09-2015 |
20150228385 | PERMANENT MAGNET, MOTOR, AND GENERATOR - A permanent magnet includes: a composition expressed by a composition formula: R | 08-13-2015 |
20150270039 | PERMANENT MAGNET, MOTOR, AND GENERATOR - The invention provides a high-performance permanent magnet. The permanent magnet has a composition that is expressed by a composition formula R | 09-24-2015 |
20150270040 | PERMANENT MAGNET, MOTOR, AND GENERATOR - A high performance permanent magnet is provided. The permanent magnet includes a composition represented by a composition formula: R | 09-24-2015 |
20160086702 | PERMANENT MAGNET, MOTOR, AND GENERATOR - The embodiments provide a high-performance permanent magnet. The permanent magnet includes a sintered body having a composition expressed by a composition formula R | 03-24-2016 |
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20130260353 | RESPONSE SUPPORT SERVER, RESPONSE SUPPORT SYSTEM, RESPONSE SUPPORT METHOD - A response support server is for providing response support to a response terminal for an assignment that has been presented. The response support server includes an input status acquisition unit configured to acquire an input status in a response column for the assignment; a response support information generation unit configured to generate response support information to be displayed on the response terminal, based on the input status and an elapsed time after the assignment is presented; and a send unit configured to send the response support information to the response terminal. | 10-03-2013 |
20140017655 | EXAMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND EXAMINATION SUPPORT METHOD - The examination support apparatus includes a question database, an answer status database, a question output unit, an answer acquisition unit, a correct/incorrect determination unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The question output unit extracts and outputs examination questions from the question database. The answer acquisition unit acquires an answer to each of the above-described examination questions transmitted from an examinee terminal, and the correct/incorrect determination unit determines whether the answer is correct or incorrect. The calculation unit calculates for the examinee a correct-answer percentage to the examination questions in the same administering section based on a result of the correct/incorrect determination. The determination unit calculates a change in a correct-answer percentage for the examinee from the correct-answer percentage of the examination questions in the particular administering section stored in the answer status database and the correct-answer percentage calculated, and determines the change. | 01-16-2014 |
20140024006 | QUESTION SETTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage stores problem information which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer of the problem included in a test sent to students, and student answer information which maintains answer data and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor processes test operations of referring to the problem information, sending the problem data to the student terminals, receiving the answer data from the student terminals in a given time for the test, and recording the answer data in the student answer information. The processor processes a progress display. A progress state is displayed in the given time and indicates an answer state of the problem data based on the correct/incorrect answer determination result. A display instruction is sent to the student terminals to stop the test. | 01-23-2014 |
20140280170 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A GROUPING SUPPORT PROGRAM, GROUPING SUPPORT METHOD AND GROUPING SUPPORT SERVER - A computer-readable storage medium storing a grouping support program of opinion information that, when executed by a computer, performs a grouping support method includes specifying a related opinion information related to a first opinion information and a second opinion information among a plurality of collected opinion information based on a related word guided from the first opinion information and the second opinion information selected from the plurality of collected opinion information; and grouping the specified related opinion information in the same group as the first opinion information and the second opinion information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140295396 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LEARNING SUPPORT - A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer executable program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform a method for learning support includes collecting a first opinion information and a second opinion information from a plurality of information terminals of a group, determining whether a representative opinion information of a group is included in a majority opinion information among collected opinion information of a first opinion information and a second opinion information, and outputting a minority opinion information among the collected opinion information when the representative opinion information is included in the majority opinion information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297641 | DISCUSSION SUPPORT METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A storage medium storing a discussion support program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes collecting opinion data obtained from each information terminal and a group characteristic corresponding to the opinion data collected in each group including a plurality of information terminals set in advance, and calculating a point of a participant related to the information terminal based on representative opinion data chosen from the opinion data collected in each group and the group characteristic corresponding to the group to which the information terminal having transmitted the representative opinion data belongs. | 10-02-2014 |
20140337789 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM - A display processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive an input of a symbol when each of a plurality of data is disposed and displayed on a different area among display areas by a display device; a registration unit configured to register a group of data according to a position and/or a shape of the symbol in the display area among data included in the plurality of data when the symbol is received by the reception unit; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display other data included in the group of data, when any of data included in the plurality of data is designated and the designated data is included in the registered group of data, together with the designated data. | 11-13-2014 |
20140340408 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A display control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive designation of at least one data among a plurality of data when each of the plurality of data is disposed and displayed in each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus; and a changing unit configured to change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the designation received by the reception unit when the designation is received by the reception unit. | 11-20-2014 |
20140347367 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM - A display processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive registration of a symbol by associating the symbol with a plurality of data selected from a group of data when each data included in the group of data is disposed and displayed on a different area among display areas by a display device; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display the symbol registered by being associated with the plurality of selected data, by associating the symbol with the designated data, when the designated data is included in the plurality of data, in a case where any one data included in the group of data is designated. | 11-27-2014 |
20140370483 | PRESENTER SELECTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, PRESENTER SELECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND PRESENTER SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD - A presenter selection support apparatus including: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; a selection unit configured to select any one of opinions that belongs to a certain group based on a predetermined criterion when the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than the selected opinion is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the selected opinion is selectable, wherein the predetermined criterion is a criterion used to specify any one terminal based on the number of times that one item among the plurality of items is selected in the past in each of the plurality of terminals. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370489 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING METHOD - A presenter narrowing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than a designated opinion among opinions that belong to a certain group is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the designated opinion is selectable when the opinion which belongs to the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated. In the presenter narrowing apparatus, the instruction unit allows the display unit to highlight an opinion input to a terminal, for which a timing at which one item among the plurality of items is selected satisfies a predetermined criterion, among the opinions that belong to the certain group. | 12-18-2014 |
20150037779 | DISCUSSION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DISCUSSION SUPPORT METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has a program stored therein for causing a computer to execute a discussion support method, and the method includes calculating a correlation between an opinion of a student and a plurality of agendas for each opinion of the student; forming one or more groups of the students associated with one or more of the agendas, respectively, based on the correlations of the opinions and the agendas; and transmitting the one or more of the agendas to terminals of the students in the respective groups associated with the respective agendas. | 02-05-2015 |
20150125843 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, EDUCATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EDUCATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - An education support method includes searching for first student information corresponding to a student whose evaluation score has been improved and discussion information on the basis of evaluation-score-and-group information in which the discussion information identifying a group discussion, group information identifying a group, student information identifying a student and an evaluation score of the student are associated with one another; searching for second student information including group information associated to the first student information on the basis of the first student information and the discussion information; and generating created group information that is associated with the second student information and a selected student information. Further, a computer-readable recording medium storing an education support program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform the education support method. | 05-07-2015 |
20160093228 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING EVALUATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, EVALUATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EVALUATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes generating screen data for answering questions about opinion information related to a topic which is input from a first student terminal; transmitting the screen data to second student terminals; collecting answers to the questions input from the second student terminals; and calculating correct answer rates of the answers to the questions. | 03-31-2016 |
20160093229 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recoding medium stores a display control program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: receiving specification of a question; referring to scenario data including a scenario in association with each question and selecting one discussion point in accordance with the sequence of the scenario corresponding to the question whose specification has been accepted; and displaying the one discussion point in a mode different from a mode of other discussion points in display of the scenario including the plurality of discussion points and displaying an answer to the one discussion point in a mode different from a mode of other answers in display of a list of answers with respect to the question whose specification has been accepted. | 03-31-2016 |