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| 20090083432 | Traffic control system and traffic control method - A traffic control system | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090125583 | PRIORITY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A priority control system includes a terminal, and a processing server coupled over a network. The processing server has an operation processing sections each of which executes a predetermined process, a communications device, a priority determination section, and a priority assignment section. The processing server also has priority information about priorities to be assigned according to a type of operation processing section. Each of the operation processing sections executes the predetermined process based on a packet, provided by the terminal, and generates screen information with a result of the predetermined process. The communications device transmits screen information with an assigned priority. The terminal receives the screen information transferred by a network device on the network in accordance with the priority, and displays the screen information. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100106988 | CONTROL METHOD WITH MANAGEMENT SERVER APPARATUS FOR STORAGE DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONER AND STORAGE SYSTEM - To provide a system that can reduce the power consumption of an air conditioner and the power consumption of a storage device. A control method with a management server apparatus for a plurality of storage devices and an air conditioner includes calculating plural combinations of allocating the work amount to the plurality of storage devices, calculating the heating value of each storage device included in the plurality of storage devices for each of the plural combinations, calculating the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, based on the heating value and positional information of the plurality of storage devices and the air conditioner, calculating the power consumption to cool the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, selecting a combination included in the plural combinations based on the power consumption of the air conditioner, and issuing a move instruction of moving the data stored in a first storage device to a second storage device to the plurality of storage devices, based on the selected combination. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110208937 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHODS FOR THE SAME AND PROGRAMS - The present invention calculates the power consumption of the storage system for each device which supplies power with a storage system, and controls the storage system to keep the power consumption not to exceed the upper limit. In order to achieve this, the power consumption of the chassis configuring the destination storage system is calculated with reference to the number of logical volumes configuring the pool which includes virtual logical volumes, and the logical volumes included in the source storage system are migrated to the virtual logical volumes included in the destination storage system, keeping the power consumption specified in advance per device supplying power to the chassis configuring the destination storage system not to exceed the upper limit value. (Refer to FIG. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110231604 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AS WELL AS PROGRAM - In a storage system in which computers are connected via a network, in order to avoid a state where communication quality is degraded due to poor performance of an apparatus constituting the network, for a transfer data amount, an amount of data sent out from a storage apparatus is suppressed. Moreover, the storage apparatus inhibits a read-ahead process, in accordance with the suppression of the sending out of the data. Furthermore, proper load allocation is realized by migrating a logical storage unit provided by the storage, to another network interface or a second storage apparatus, without changing a configuration of the network. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120226856 | CONTROL METHOD WITH MANAGEMENT SERVER APPARATUS FOR STORAGE DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONER AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Arrangements reducing power consumption of an air conditioner and a storage device. A control method with a management server apparatus for a plurality of storage devices and an air conditioner includes calculating plural combinations of allocating the work amount to the plurality of storage devices, calculating the heating value of each storage device included in the plurality of storage devices for each of the plural combinations, calculating the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, based on the heating value and positional information of the plurality of storage devices and the air conditioner, calculating the power consumption to cool the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, selecting a combination included in the plural combinations based on the power consumption of the air conditioner, and issuing a move of the data stored in a first storage device to a second storage device, based on the selected combination. | 09-06-2012 |
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| 20090091439 | VEHICLE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE SYSTEM - A vehicle environmental service system includes an in-vehicle information terminal mounted in a vehicle, a center server provided in a center, and a provider terminal managed by an affiliated service provider providing various services to users. The in-vehicle information terminal is capable of communicating with the provider terminal directly or through the center server. The in-vehicle information terminal or the center server has a point calculating unit for determining whether safety driving and/or ecological driving is being performed with respect to each of the users based on prescribed criteria and calculating the number of points to be awarded based on the result of the determination. The center server has a database for managing total number of points obtained by accumulating the number of points to be awarded with respect to each of the users. The provider terminal has a service providing unit for providing a prescribed service in exchange for a prescribed number of points in the database and an advertisement generating unit for generating advertisement information of the affiliated service provider. The in-vehicle information terminal has a unit enabling the in-vehicle information terminal to receive the advertisement information from the provider terminal directly or through the center server. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20100014155 | LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE - A laser scanning microscope comprises: an objective lens for observing a specimen; a focal plane scan lens placed on the opposite side of the objective lens from the specimen and which generates an intermediate image; a mirror placed near to the position of the intermediate image of the focal plane scan lens; a scan unit scanning the mirror in the optical axis direction; and a pupil projection optical system which projects the pupil of the objective lens onto the pupil of the focal plane scan lens and of which the pupil projection magnification ratio is variable. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20110109961 | PATTERN PROJECTION APPARATUS, SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE, AND PATTERN RADIATING METHOD - A pattern projection apparatus includes: a spatial light modulator having a plurality of pixel devices each independently modulating light, and arranged at an optically conjugate position with respect to a sample; and a control device for dividing a modulation pattern of the spatial light modulator for irradiating the sample with illuminating light of a target form into a plurality of submodulation patterns and controlling the spatial light modulator sequentially for each of the plurality of submodulation patterns. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110228267 | REFLECTION GRATING, AND SPECTROGRAPH AND PULSE SHAPER USING THE REFLECTION GRATING - A reflection grating includes a transmission hologram layer for diffracting incident light, a reflection member in contact with the transmission hologram layer, and a reflection plane for reflecting diffracted light generated by the transmission hologram layer. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120032069 | SCANNING MICROSCOPE - A scanning microscope is provided with a scan unit that scans a sample, the scanningmicroscope including: a transmissive VPH grating for dispersing light from the sample; and a photodetector for detecting the light diffracted by the VPH grating. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120081535 | SAMPLE OBSERVATION DEVICE FOR GENERATING SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGE - A sample observation device includes: an excitation light generation unit; an intermediate image forming unit projecting excitation light to a sample and forming an intermediate image of the sample at an intermediate image position with observing light; a confocal modulation unit modulating spatial intensity distributions of the excitation light and the intermediate image at the position; a modulation drive unit moving a pattern of the modulation unit; an image relay unit relaying on a image forming surface the intermediate image; an image pickup unit converting the distribution of relayed intermediate image into digital image data; and an image processing unit processing on the digital image data. Cutoff frequency of the relay unit and Nyquist frequency of the pickup unit exceed cutoff frequency of the forming unit, and the processing unit performs a high frequency enhancing process for enhancing the high frequency component exceeding the cutoff frequency of the forming unit. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120206340 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - To provide a display method capable of displaying the original power saving effect if a monitoring display of the power saving effect is not made when the monitoring display of the power saving effect is made. Provided is a display method including capturing an image in front of an image display surface included in a display apparatus that displays the image and detecting presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface, deciding a power saving amount of the display apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using an analysis result of the presence or absence of a human face and a detection result of the moving body in the captured image, and deriving and displaying the actual power saving amount when no display is made on the image display surface on the image display surface when information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface. Accordingly, when a monitoring display of a power saving effect is made, an original power saving effect if no monitoring display of the power saving effect is made can be displayed. | 08-16-2012 |
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| 20110126206 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT APPARATUS OF INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - Information processing equipment and power/cooling facilities are managed together for power savings without degrading system processing performance. An operations management apparatus | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110202705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER - Exemplary embodiments provide a technique to manage object based tier to improve allocation of media to unallocated area. In one embodiment, a method of allocating an area of a logical volume to an unallocated area of a virtual volume for a write command comprises: calculating an object location of an object based on the write command and an object allocation information, the write command containing a virtual volume name and a virtual volume address of a virtual volume; selecting a tier from a plurality of tiers based on the calculated object location and an object and tier definition information; selecting a media type from a plurality of media types based on the selected tier and a tier and media definition information; and selecting a logical volume from a plurality of logical volumes based on the virtual volume specified by the write command, the object allocation information, a pool information, and the selected media type. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110208911 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - This invention manages a power consumption of a system including a computer and a storage in combination with a workload of a business application. More specifically, a power consumption per transaction processing count is employed as an index that an application user utilizes as a guide for adjusting a power consumption amount. Further, the invention provides means that adjusts a power consumption per workload based on a trade off between power consumption and system performance. When adjusting the power consumption, the system configuration is modified so as to increase or decrease computer resources such as a disk or a server that the application utilizes. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110258379 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE TIER INFORMATION - A method of tier management of data comprises performing a tier migration log information setup process which includes selecting an area specified by a virtual volume address and a logical volume address; determining a destination tier for the area based on a number of accesses to the area; and updating a tier migration log information by inputting the determined destination tier and a time; and performing a process using the tier migration log information to determine whether to migrate a specific area which includes loading a tier migration log from the tier migration log information by selecting a specific time; checking if a current tier of the specific area equals a destination tier specified by the tier migration log; and if the current tier is not equal to the destination tier, migrating the specific area to the destination tier. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120079188 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ALLOCATE AREA TO VIRTUAL VOLUME BASED ON OBJECT ACCESS TYPE - In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a storage system comprises a processor; a memory; a disk control module configured to receive a write command for writing to an unallocated area and to identify an object of the write command to be written as a written object; and an object allocation acquisition module configured to obtain object allocation information specifying one or more virtual volume locations for storing the written object. The disk control module allocates, to each of the one or more virtual volume locations, an area selected from a plurality of logical volumes if the written object is predefined as a randomly accessed object. The disk control module allocates to the one or more virtual volume locations a consecutive area of one logical volume if the written object is predefined as a sequentially accessed object. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120226672 | Method and Apparatus to Align and Deduplicate Objects - In deduplicating data including objects, the system obtains information of the location of the objects and uses the information in calculating the hash value. The hash value calculation program divides data from the boundary location to chunks to match the boundary location of the objects subject to deduplication and the hash value is calculated from each chunk. | 09-06-2012 |
