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20090290249 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD - There is provided a management apparatus of a storage apparatus. The management apparatus includes an acquisition determination section that determines whether predetermined identification information can be acquired or not from a mounting apparatus that mounts at least one storage apparatus and has at least one predetermined identification information assigned thereto, and a failure determination section that determines, based on a determination result of the acquisition determination section, an access failure to the storage apparatus mounted in the mounting apparatus has been caused due to a failure of the storage apparatus itself or an interruption of a power supply to the mounting apparatus. | 11-26-2009 |
20090292867 | Storage-apparatus, disk controller, and command issue control method - The storage apparatus of the present invention includes a disk controller (CM) that issues a command to a disk via a fabric device. The CM controls the number of commands to be issued to the disk based on the structure of the storage apparatus and the operation state of the storage apparatus. | 11-26-2009 |
20100153668 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE MANAGING DEVICE AND STORAGE MANAGING METHOD - A storage system, a storage managing device, and a storage managing method are provided. The storage system includes plural mount devices in which storage devices are mounted and includes a router connected to at least two loops in which plural mount devices are cascade-connected to one another, an initialization completion determining unit that determines whether an initialization processing of obtaining identification information of the storage devices is completed when the initialization processing concerned is executed by using at least one loop of the loops connected to the router, an initialization time determining unit that determines whether an execution time of the initialization processing elapses a predetermined time based on a determination result of the initialization completion determining unit, and a time extending unit that extends the predetermined time when the determination result indicates that the initialization processing completed and the initialization processing is executed by the plural loops. | 06-17-2010 |
20100235571 | STORAGE APPARATUS, RELAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMAND ISSUE - A storage apparatus includes a disk controller that issues commands to disks connected in loops, and a relay device that relays the commands issued from the disk controller to the disks. The relay device includes a supervisory control unit that monitors the number of commands to be issued to each of the loops including the disks and controls the number of commands to be issued by the disk controller on the basis of the monitored results. | 09-16-2010 |
20110246687 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A storage control apparatus for transmitting data to and receiving data from a plurality of storage devices connected to the same interface, the storage control apparatus includes a memory configured to store a management table registering a burst transfer length of each of the plurality of storage devices, the plurality of storage devices including a first storage device having a first burst transfer length that is a minimum in the management table and a second device having a second burst transfer length; an adjusting controller configured to adjust the second burst transfer length in input and/or output processing if the second burst transfer length registered in the management table is different from the first burst transfer length; and a data transfer controller configured to issue a command for a data transfer to the second storage device on the basis of the adjusted second burst transfer length. | 10-06-2011 |
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20080270851 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING APPARATUS PERFORMANCE - The method comprises and executes constitutional information collection processing of collecting constitutional information of the apparatus, constitutional information of a logical unit which is a logical existence obtained by abstracting the apparatus, constitutional information of the application and constitutional information of the dependency relation of the performance established among the apparatus, the logical unit and the application; performance information collection processing of collecting each performance information of the apparatus, the logical unit and the application; and saturation indication detection processing of analyzing a correlation between a change value with time of the performance information of the apparatus and a change value with time of the performance information of the logical unit having the dependency relation of the performance with respect to the apparatus for a predetermined period, and detecting that the apparatus has the saturation indication, when a correlation coefficient obtained by the correlation analysis is a predetermined threshold value or more. | 10-30-2008 |
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20110295993 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING APPARATUS PERFORMANCE - The method comprises and executes constitutional information collection processing of collecting constitutional information of the apparatus, constitutional information of a logical unit which is a logical existence obtained by abstracting the apparatus, constitutional information of the application and constitutional information of the dependency relation of the performance established among the apparatus, the logical unit and the application; performance information collection processing of collecting each performance information of the apparatus, the logical unit and the application; and saturation indication detection processing of analyzing a correlation between a change value with time of the performance information of the apparatus and a change value with time of the performance information of the logical unit having the dependency relation of the performance with respect to the apparatus for a predetermined period, and detecting that the apparatus has the saturation indication, when a correlation coefficient obtained by the correlation analysis is a predetermined threshold value or more. | 12-01-2011 |
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20130041573 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING VEHICLE QUEUE LENGTH, METHOD FOR MEASURING VEHICLE QUEUE LENGTH, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MEASURING VEHICLE QUEUE LENGTH - An apparatus includes: a processor that executed a procedure, the procedure including: detecting a moving vehicle as the moving vehicle approaches a vehicle queue based on a signal from a sensor, acquiring a position and a speed of the moving vehicle based on the signal, calculating a stop position of the moving vehicle based on a change in the position and the speed of the moving vehicle, and calculating a length of the vehicle queue based on the stop position of the moving vehicle. | 02-14-2013 |
20130214962 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC LANE DETECTION - Two radar devices are installed for adjacent lanes. A memory sequentially stores a received power value at a time when the two radar devices receive the reflected wave from a vehicle at specified time intervals. A calculator calculates, when a vehicle moves in a direction approaching the two radar devices, as a representative value of the received power at a specified time, a weighted average value when weights, which become heavier as an acquisition time of the received power value becomes farther from the specified time, are assigned to a specified number of received power values, whose acquisition time is prior to a specified time, where a priority is given to the received power values whose acquisition time is close to the specified time. A discriminator determines a lane in which the vehicle is traveling according to a result of comparing the sizes of the calculated representative value. | 08-22-2013 |
20130222177 | MOVING OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT TRACKING METHOD - A detection information memory stores, for each object, detection information that includes a distance to and a traveling speed of an object for each predetermined timing detected by a radar apparatus which detects detection information on the object, and the radar apparatus detects the detection information by receiving a reflected wave of an irradiated radar wave from the object. A predictor predicts, for each object, the detection information to be newly detected by the radar apparatus from a history of the detection information. A tracker tracks the object by identifying the object which is the target of the detection information newly detected using a result of the predictor; a determiner determines whether the object is a fixed object or a moving object. An output unit outputs the detection information on the object determined to be the moving object by the determiner. | 08-29-2013 |
20130335261 | MONITORING DEVICE AND MONITORING METHOD - A monitoring device includes a memory configured to store first and second background information related to positional information of a fixed object existing in a detection area of a radar device that receives a reflected wave from an object existing at an emission destination of an emitted radar wave and detects position and moving velocity information of the object as detection information of the object; and a processor configured to detect, upon receiving a first specified signal, a temporary fixed object existing in a detection area of the radar device by using the detection information and the first background information stored in the memory, and to detect, upon receiving a second specified signal, a movement object existing in the detection area of the radar device by using the detection information and the second background information stored in the memory. | 12-19-2013 |
20140132441 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An object detection method includes outputting a radio wave, receiving a reflected wave of the radio wave, generating a plurality of object information each indicating a location of each of a plurality of objects with respect to a predetermined reference point based on the radio wave and the reflected wave, calculating a first distance between an observation reference line which represents a shape and a location of a target area for detection preset depending on a target object for detection, and each of the plurality of objects, based on the observation reference line information stored in advance indicating a shape and a location of the observation reference line and the object information, selecting a predetermined number or less of the object information in ascending order of the first distance among the plurality of the object information as the object information to be output, and outputting the selected object information. | 05-15-2014 |
20140266855 | RADAR APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A radar apparatus to detect an object includes a detecting unit configured to detect the object based on a reflected wave received in response to transmitting a transmission wave, in order to output a detection result of the object, a storage unit including a first storage part to store the detection result, and a second storage part to store a copy of information stored in the first storage part based on a copy command, and a selecting unit configured to select one of the first storage part and the second storage part as an access destination, in order to output the detection result stored in one of the first storage part and the second storage part selected as the access destination. | 09-18-2014 |
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20130148235 | MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF MAGNETIC HEAD - A magnetic head is arranged between two reels around which a magnetic tape is wound and contacts one side of the magnetic tape spanned between the two reels. A driver moves the magnetic head. A controller causes the driver to generate a driving force for pressing the magnetic head against the one side of the magnetic tape while keeping the magnetic head in contact with the magnetic tape. It is possible to cause the magnetic head to stably contact the magnetic tape even when the running position of the magnetic tape varies in accordance with the winding state of the magnetic tape around the reel. | 06-13-2013 |
20130194904 | WRITING SYSTEM, WRITING DEVICE, AND WRITING METHOD - A writing-system comprises a first and a second writing-device, and is connected to an information-processor-apparatus that obtains unwritten-data from the first and the second writing-devices when a notification is received, the notification indicating that the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium used by either of the writing-devices, wherein the first writing-device comprises a first writing-unit, when the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium, transmits to the information-processor-apparatus, dummy information for inhibiting the unwritten-data to be obtained by the information-processor-apparatus, and writes the unwritten-data to a memory-unit, the recording-medium and the memory-unit are included in a cartridge accommodated in the first writing-device, and the second writing-device comprises a second writing-unit that writes, on the recording-medium, the unwritten-data stored in the memory-unit when the cartridge is moved from the first writing-device to the second writing-device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130215529 | DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS, DRIVE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE APPARATUS - A drive control apparatus includes a management unit, a detection unit, and an information unit. The management unit identifies a data write position on a tape onto which data is written sequentially, and manages correspondences between first addresses including an address larger than an address which is managed by an upper apparatus connected to the drive control apparatus and second addresses for making the upper apparatus identify the data write position on the tape. The detection unit detects that a drive which writes the data onto the tape fails in writing the data. The information unit informs the upper apparatus of a second address of a position on the tape at which write fails on the basis of detection by the detection unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20140189425 | LIBRARY CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIBRARY DEVICE - A library controller includes a data storage and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a plurality of data from a host device and write the received plurality of data to a first data buffer included in a first drive. The processor is configured to instruct, upon occurrence of a first write error, an operating unit to demount a recording medium from the first drive and mount the recording medium into a second drive. The processor is configured to receive unwritten data including the partial data from the first drive to store the received unwritten data in the data storage. The unwritten data is data stored in the first data buffer and not yet written to the recording medium. The processor is configured to read the unwritten data stored in the data storage to write the read unwritten data to a second data buffer included in the second drive. | 07-03-2014 |
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20090324095 | ANALYSIS-MODEL-PRODUCING APPARATUS AND ANALYSIS-MODEL-PRODUCING METHOD - An analysis-model-producing apparatus for producing an analysis model from a shape model, comprising means for specifying a deletion method for deleting, from geometric shape data constituting the shape model, geometric shape data that is unnecessary to production of an analysis model, and means for deleting unnecessary data, using the specified deletion method. | 12-31-2009 |
20090325401 | CONNECTOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A connector includes a contact pin in which a free end projecting from a supporting member comes into contact with an electrode of a first object and a second object, and a bending part is provided onto a base end such that the connector has an inclination against the first object and the second object. The rigidity of the bending parts is selectively set to be high by selectively increasing a thickness of the bending part. | 12-31-2009 |
20110085305 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, WASHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WASHER - An electronic device includes, a circuit board including a through hole, a member including a screw hole, a screw including a screw body having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the through hole and a screw head having an outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the through hole, wherein the screw body penetrates through the through hole to engage with the screw hole and the screw head is disposed on an opposite side of the circuit board to the member, and a first washer provided between the screw head and the circuit board, the first washer including a first washer body and a plurality of first washer legs extending from the first washer body toward the circuit board, the first washer legs being in contact with the circuit board and having a characteristic of reducing stress on the circuit board upon being heated. | 04-14-2011 |
20110208485 | BONDING MODEL GENERATION APPARATUS AND BONDING MODEL GENERATION METHOD - A bonding surface extraction unit extracts, with reference to bonding information, data of a first bonding surface corresponding to a bottom surface of a bonding model from data of a first partial model and data of a second bonding surface corresponding to a top surface of the bonding model from data of a second partial model. The first partial model is a model of a pad included in a circuit board. The second partial model is a model of an electrode included in a component. The electrode is to be bonded to the pad with a bonding material. A bonding model generation unit generates a side surface establishing a link between outlines of the first bonding surface and the second bonding surface, and obtains data of the bonding model on the basis of a shape formed with the side surface, the first bonding surface, and the second bonding surface. | 08-25-2011 |