| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080209025 | STORAGE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONNECTION METHOD - The storage system in the present invention includes: plural control units for controlling data sending/reception independently for each network; a management unit provided between a management computer and the control units, for managing the control units based on a command sent from the management computer; a virtual communication channel creation unit for creating a virtual communication channel between the management unit and the control units; a virtual communication channel connection unit for separately connecting the management unit and each control unit to the virtual communication channel created by the virtual communication channel creation unit; and a sending unit for sending, to each control unit, a command sent from the management computer via the virtual communication channel connected by the virtual communication channel connection unit. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090077087 | ACCESS CONTROLLER THAT CONTROLS ACCESS TO FILES BY USING ACCESS CONTROL LIST - Each time the file access request is received, it is discriminated whether there is an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching in the file designated by the file access request. In cases where the judgment result is that there is no such ACL, an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching is generated on the basis of an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type prior to the switching which is associated with the designated file, and the ACL thus generated is used to control access in accordance with the received file access request. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090190590 | Server Machine and Network Processing Method - An object of the present invention is to provide a server machine and network processing method capable of running a plurality of same server applications at a time on a single OS in a single sever machine. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20100082716 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR FILE SERVER RESOURCE DIVISION - Provided is a method including the steps of: storing multiple IP addresses and resource management information including correspondence relationships among the multiple IP addresses, multiple file cache regions and multiple virtual file servers; processing multiple file requests transmitted from a client computer in accordance with the resource management information, by use of a lent file cache region being a part of the multiple file cache regions corresponding to the multiple virtual file servers, a lent IP address being a part of the multiple IP addresses, and a lent volume being a part of multiple volumes, the requests transmitted by designating the multiple virtual file servers, respectively; and creating a child virtual file server by receiving a child virtual file server creation request designating one of the multiple virtual file servers. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100299306 | STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING FILE CHANGE NOTIFICATION INTERFACE - The present invention provides a file operation notifying program for detecting a file operation of an application in a virtual file server on a server machine, and notifying the file operation to an application on another virtual file server inside the server machine, and to an application external to the server machine based on a notification management table. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110035409 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND COPY CONTROL METHOD OF FILE FOR HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM - An interface for controlling an inhibition of a recall is prepared for an application, and a judgment of necessity of a recall is informed of to a hierarchical storage before the application executes an access to a file. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110191306 | COMPUTER, ITS PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - When a deletion request to delete a file system is made and a retention period of the file system to be deleted has not expired, the retention period end date and time is displayed at high speed. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110289494 | SYSTEM SOFTWARE UPDATE METHOD - Provided is a computer system including a first server and a storage system. In the first server, a first virtual server and a second virtual server are operated. Upon reception of a request to boot the first virtual server, the second virtual server judges whether system software of the first virtual server, which is requested to be booted, matches system software of the first server in which the first virtual server is operated. In the case where the system software of the first virtual server and the system software of the first server do not match, the second virtual server updates the system software of the first virtual server before booting the first virtual server. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120005193 | FILE-SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FILES, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a technique capable of efficiently operating files and directories that are stored in storage located in a physically far place from a file server, without causing a network latency. An index creation program is also loaded in a cloud computing environment, and a flag, which indicates whether or not to execute batch processing to a directory that has been migrated to the cloud side, is provided, whereby it becomes possible to collectively execute index creation processing for the migrated directory on the cloud side. More specifically, upon completion of migration of all files under a given directory to the cloud side, a flag, which indicates whether or not to perform batch processing on the cloud side, is validated for the metadata of the directory. Such a batch processing flag can be held for each application such as applications of the index creation processing and the virus check processing. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120101995 | FILE SERVER FOR MIGRATION OF FILE AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING FILE - A file server stores the storage management information and migration policy information. The storage management information includes the information that indicates a storage attribute for each storage apparatus. The migration policy information includes a plurality of information sets. Each of the information sets includes the information that indicates a condition of a file attribute and the information that indicates a condition of a storage attribute of a storage apparatus that is a migration destination. The file server specifies a migration target file, specifies a storage apparatus that conforms to the storage attribute condition that is indicated by the information set that includes the information that indicates a condition of a file attribute that conforms to of a file attribute of a target file based on the storage management information, and migrates a target file from a storage apparatus that has stored the target file to the storage apparatus that has been specified. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120278289 | ACCESS CONTROLLER THAT CONTROLS ACCESS TO FILES BY USING ACCESS CONTROL LIST - Each time the file access request is received, it is discriminated whether there is an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching in the file designated by the file access request. In cases where the judgment result is that there is no such ACL, an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type following the switching is generated on the basis of an ACL which corresponds with the file system of the type prior to the switching which is associated with the designated file, and the ACL thus generated is used to control access in accordance with the received file access request. | 11-01-2012 |
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| 20090102620 | FORCE/TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE - A force/tactile feedback device feeding back a force sense to a fingertip of an operator includes a fingerstall to which the fingertip of the operator is inserted, a position feedback means for feeding back a position to the fingertip held by the fingerstall, a fingertip contact point feedback means for feeding back a fingertip contact point to the fingertip held by the fingerstall and an unnecessary moment removal means for supporting the fingertip contact point feedback means so that unnecessary moment is not generated at a tip portion of the position feedback means. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100168950 | Path Planning Device, Path Planning Method, and Computer Program - A path planning device includes: an initial position and posture path acquiring unit which acquires an initial position and posture path including a plurality of nodes connecting present position and posture of a control target to target position and posture and which configures a rigid body corresponding to the control target in each node in the position and posture path; an interference detector which detects interference with the control target by an obstruction; an external force calculator which calculates an external force for each rigid body; and a multi rigid body system dynamics simulation unit which performs a multi rigid body system dynamics simulation on a plurality of equations of rigid body motion and which acquires positions and postures of the control target at times corresponding to the nodes in the position and posture path. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110156416 | GRASPING APPARATUS - A grasping apparatus includes a base unit, left and right parallel links, and a driving unit that is housed in the base unit and drives the first link of the right parallel link and the first link of the left parallel link in the open/close direction. Each of the left and right parallel links has a first link attached pivotably in an open/close direction about a base shaft of the base unit, a second link attached pivotably in the open/close direction about an auxiliary shaft located on an outer side in the open/close direction, a finger unit supported pivotably at an end of the first link and an end of the second link, and a claw projecting toward the inner side in the open/close direction and disposed along an end face of the grasping surface of the finger unit of each of the left and right parallel links. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110238212 | ROBOT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD CARRIED OUT BY THE ROBOT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA - A robot apparatus, method and computer program storage device use a memory that stores cueing point information and user information to assist a user in an external environment. The cueing points are distributed within an environmental map held by the robot apparatus, and when the user is detected by the robot apparatus as approaching a predetermined region within the external environment classified as a cueing point, the robot apparatus reacts by providing a cue to the user. The cue may user-specific, or optionally provided based on a level of care required by the user. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120290132 | ROBOT DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a robot device including a drive unit including a plurality of links and joints connecting the links, a task instruction input unit for inputting an instruction of a task, a drive control unit for controlling an operation of the drive unit on the basis of the input task and determining a restricted area including a space necessary for the operation of the drive unit, and an area display unit for displaying the restricted area. | 11-15-2012 |
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| 20100099800 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION HAVING RUBBERY POLYMER PARTICLE DISPERSED THEREIN, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A thermosetting resin composition having rubbery polymer particles dispersed therein of the present invention, that does not precipitate the thermosetting resin rubbery polymer particles over a long period of time, has excellent fluidity, is easily cured and molded, and sufficiently exhibits original properties of the thermosetting resin, comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin, and 1 to 80 parts by weight of rubbery polymer particles, the rubbery polymer particles being dispersed in the form of a primary particle, wherein the solid content concentration is 60% to 90% by weight, and the water concentration is 3% by weight or less, and can efficiently be produced industrially in the state that the rubbery polymer particles are maintained in a stable state. The composition can be produced by a process for production of a thermosetting resin composition having rubbery polymer particles dispersed therein of the present invention, comprising a concentration step of deaerating a gas phase adjacent to a mixed solution comprising the rubbery polymer particles, the thermosetting resin, water and an organic solvent to reduce the pressure therein, thereby reducing the amounts of the water and the organic solvent in the mixed solution. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110300592 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLY-3-HYDROXYALKANOIC ACID - When industrially separating and purifying poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid produced by a microorganism, to obtain poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid particles having an arbitrary volume mean particle diameter with favorable productivity and with decreased amount of an organic solvent used is enabled while decreasing contaminants derived from constitutive components of cellular bodies. According to the present invention, aggregated matter of poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid is obtained by adjusting the amount of organic nitrogen in an aqueous suspension containing poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid to not greater than 1,500 ppm per weight of poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid; and thereafter allowing poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acid to be aggregated in the aqueous suspension. | 12-08-2011 |