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20090204775 | DATA COPYING METHOD - A method for controlling a switch apparatus connectable to a host and a storage device including first and second areas, the method includes: establishing schedule of copying data stored in the first area of the storage device into the second area of the storage device; monitoring a state of access by the host to the storage device; carrying out copying the data stored in the first area into the second area while the monitored state of the access by the host allows copying of the data from the first area into the second area; and enhancing copying, if any portion of the data remains when a time set by the schedule is expired, the remaining portion of the data from the first area into the second area. | 08-13-2009 |
20090222632 | STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROLLING METHOD, SWITCH DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for controlling a storage system having first and second switches and a storage device connected to the switches via a network in response to a request from a host, the storage device having first and second areas, each of the first and second switch accessing to the first and second area, the method includes, receiving a request for copying data stored in the first area to the second area from the host, transmitting initiation notification of the copying to the second switch, executing the copying by the first switch, maintaining progress status of the copying, controlling the second switch to refer to the progress upon receiving a request for access to the first or second area by the host before completion of the copying, and determining whether to permit access to the first or second area by the second switch. | 09-03-2009 |
20090254719 | SWITCH APPARATUS - A method for controlling a switch apparatus connected to a first and a second storage apparatus, and a host, the switch apparatus managing a virtual storage area maintained by the first and second storage apparatuses, the host accessible to the virtual storage area by transmitting a command for identifying a subarea of the virtual storage area, the second storage apparatus allowable to an access faster than the first storage apparatus does, the method includes: receiving a command; determining which of the first and second storage apparatuses maintains the subarea to be accessed; accessing the subarea corresponding to the command; detecting a frequency of access to each of the subareas; and moving data stored in the first storage apparatus and having higher frequency of access than data stored in the second storage apparatus into the subareas maintained in the second storage apparatus. | 10-08-2009 |
20090300306 | DATA COPYING METHOD - A method for controlling a switch apparatus connectable to a host and a storage device including first and second areas, the method includes: establishing schedule of copying data stored in the first area of the storage device into the second area of the storage device; monitoring a state of access by the host to the storage device; carrying out copying the data stored in the first area into the second area while the monitored state of the access by the host allows copying of the data from the first area into the second area; and enhancing copying, if any portion of the data remains when a time set by the schedule is expired, the remaining portion of the data from the first area into the second area. | 12-03-2009 |
20100058014 | SWITCH APPARATUS - A switch connectable between hosts and storage device, the switch for providing a service of allotting virtual areas to be deployed in the storage device to any of the hosts upon demand, the switch includes: a processor for controlling allotment of virtual areas to the hosts and allocation of physical areas of the storage device to the virtual areas; and a memory for storing information of the host allowed access to the virtual areas, the processor controlling access by any of the hosts to the virtual area so as to restrict access by any of the hosts to a part of the virtual areas allotted to the any of the hosts in reference to the memory. | 03-04-2010 |
20100161924 | STORAGE SWITCH, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND DATA COPYING METHOD - A storage switch includes a first bitmap generator for generating a first bitmap, a controller for controlling copying of data, a first modifier, a second bitmap generator for generating a second bitmap, a second modifier, a merging controller for controlling to generate a third bitmap. When the writing of data is performed during the copying of data, the merging controller modifies a part of the index bits in the third bitmap corresponding to a part of the index bits of the first bitmap modified by the first modifier on account of the copying of data performed before the writing of data, and merges the second bitmap modified by the second modifier and the third bitmap modified by the merging controller. The controller resumes copying of data of any sub-regions on the basis of the merged bitmap. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169575 | STORAGE AREA MANAGING APPARATUS AND STORAGE AREA MANAGING METHOD - A storage area managing apparatus includes a managing unit for managing a plurality of logical volumes provided by a plurality of storage drive groups for storing data redundantly, and a rebuilding controller for generating recovery data when at least one of the drive groups is degraded on the basis of the data stored in the degraded drive group and generating a selected logical volume on the basis of the capacity of the recovery data, the rebuilding controller controlling the management unit for managing first logical volumes to correspond to a part of the plurality of storage drive groups except for the degraded drive group. The storage area managing apparatus includes a first transferring unit for transferring the recovery data to the part of the plurality of storage drive groups as indicated by the selected logical volume. | 07-01-2010 |
20110137868 | STORAGE SWITCH AND STORAGE AREA SIZE CHANGE METHOD - A storage switch includes: a section | 06-09-2011 |
20120084522 | VIRTUALIZATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A virtualization control apparatus includes a selection unit that, when receiving a copy request, conducting an access test corresponding to the copy request on each of the virtualization switch units and selects one of the virtualization switch units of the highest performance among the plurality of the virtual switch units, and a sending unit that sends the copy request to the selected virtualization switch unit. | 04-05-2012 |
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20110077960 | INSPECTION ROOM DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM, INSPECTION ROOM DECISION SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An inspection room decision support system for providing support in deciding one inspection room in which a requested endoscopic inspection will be conducted, plural inspection rooms, the system includes: an input unit that inputs information; a registration unit that registers at least information about each of the inspection rooms, information about a number of persons waiting for inspection in each of the inspection rooms and information about an endoscope used in each of the inspection rooms into a database in accordance with the information inputted by the input unit; and a control unit which reads at least the information about each of the inspection rooms, the information about the number of persons waiting for inspection in each of the inspection rooms and the information about the endoscope in each of the inspection rooms from the database, and makes a display device display these pieces of information associated with each other. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077961 | ENDOSCOPIC INSPECTION INFORMATION ADMINISTERING SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPIC INSPECTION INFORMATION ADMINISTERING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An endoscopic inspection information administering system includes: an unlinking unit for canceling a link between a first piece of inspection request information selected from the inspection request information on a database and a first piece of inspection result information linked with the first piece of the inspection request information; a retrieval display unit for retrieving, from the database, second pieces of the inspection request information including the same patient ID as a patient ID included in the first piece of the inspection request information and displaying the retrieved second pieces of the inspection request information, and a recording control unit for recording, into the database, a piece of the inspection request information selected from the displayed second pieces of the inspection request information in link with the first piece of the inspection result information. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078307 | COOPERATIVE SYSTEM AND COOPERATIVE PROCESSING METHOD AMONG MEDICAL SECTORS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A cooperative processing method includes: transmitting pathological inspection request information from an endoscopic sector to a pathological sector, the pathological inspection request information being created by use of an endoscopic inspection report and for requesting the pathological sector to perform pathological inspection; managing status information for the pathological inspection request received on the pathological sector side; issuing a request to change the transmitted pathological inspection request information corresponding to the report when there occurs a change in the report; acquiring the status information of the pathological inspection request information upon reception of the change request and determining whether the pathological inspection request information can be changed or not; and changing the pathological inspection request information when it is concluded that the pathological inspection request information can be changed, and transmitting a change rejection notification when it is concluded that the pathological inspection request information cannot be changed. | 03-31-2011 |
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20090150825 | Screen generation program, screen generation apparatus, and screen generation method - The present invention has been made to provide a screen generation program, a screen generation apparatus, and a screen generation method that generate a screen displayed on a client. | 06-11-2009 |
20100306595 | SCENARIO CREATING APPARATUS, SCENARIO CREATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SCENARIO CREATING PROGRAM - A scenario creating apparatus which creates a scenario for verifying operation of an information processing system in which a plurality of servers including a database server are connected, includes a collector that collects messages transmitted and received between the plurality of servers, when operation of the information processing system is being verified by a terminal apparatus that performs verification of operation; an association unit that associates the collected messages with each other; a sorter that sorts work models in ascending order of time at which access is made to the database server, the work models each being a group of the associated messages; and a scenario creating unit that creates the scenario on the basis of the sorted work models. | 12-02-2010 |
20110231855 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRIORITY - A priority control apparatus, includes a job operation information storage unit stores, as job operation information on a per job operation basis for a plurality of job operations, a process and an object used by the process with the process mapped to the object, each job operation being executed by a plurality of processes; a delay determiner determines a first job operation that is delayed from among the plurality of job operations; and a priority controller identifies a second job operation sharing an object used in the first job operation by referencing the job operation information storage unit, identifies a process, using an object not used in the first job operation, from among the processes executing the second job operation identified, and lowers a priority at which the identified process is to be executed. | 09-22-2011 |