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Powerquest Corporation

Oakley Networks

Andy Vincent Lawrence

Robert S Raymond

Eric J Ruff

Val Arbon

James E Clingenpeel

Derrick S Shadel

Roy M Jenevein

David I Marsh

Heidi S Kramer

Improved data management systems for managing and maintaining unstructured data in a computing system environment. Data content is associated with particular types of metadata to create data objects. In certain examples, the metadata is stored in various fields of the data objects, certain fields being designated as permanently read-only after their creation. Such fields can include, for instance, a unique identifier, a type of content and a classification governing copy permissions relating to the data object. Data objects, or didgets, can be grouped into logical containers referred to as chambers, which are further grouped by common control elements or attributes into domains. Chambers within a particular domain can generally freely share information therebetween, including copies of various types of didgets. A control program, or didget manager, in each domain manages the creation of didgets and subsequent operations directed thereto.

Systems and methods for managing data in a computing environment

Systems and methods for managing unstructured data

Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, software and data structures for monitoring, analyzing, storing and/or collecting events on a monitored computer. In a set of embodiments, a monitoring process monitors one or more applications for events occurring in those application. The monitoring process, in some cases, runs in common a thread of execution with one or more of the applications. If the monitoring process detects an event, it might notify an event capture process, which might capture the event. In some embodiments, an analysis process might determine whether the event should be collected, and if so, maintain a representation of the event (perhaps in a specialized data structure). In other embodiments, a data management process is configured to store information about one or more events in an event cache, which might comprise a plurality of file streams and/or metafile streams, enabling efficient storage of information about events.

Cache for collecting events on a monitored computer

The invention provides systems and methods for storing and recovering images in a computer partition, and more particularly to tools and techniques for placing and extracting images to and from the same partition that is imaged. Both a factory image and a user-updateable image may be stored on the same partition. Copies of a portion of the partition data and/or the system data for the imaged partition can be stored at a specified location within the imaged partition, in a separate partition, or on a removable recovery medium, thereby allowing images to be recovered after disruption of the imaged partition's system data. The image may be stored contiguously or non-contiguously. The image may also be stored as a system file or as an image container which comprises one or more than one image file. To speed restoration time and to assist recovery, the image may be stored at or near the end of the partition. Familiar or novel image formats may be used. By storing one or more partition images in the imaged partition, the invention eliminates consumer confusion between bootable partition size and disk size, without sacrificing the advantages provided by imaging.

Storing a computer disk image within an imaged partition

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are provided for manipulating partitions while imaging them to another disk on the same or another computer. By integrating partition manipulations with imaging, the invention reduces data movement. Rather than resizing a source partition in place and then imaging the resized source partition, for instance, one embodiment of the invention leaves the source partition intact and performs resizing on-the-fly by manipulating a memory-resident copy of the source partition's file system structures and then copying the modified structures and corresponding portions of the source user data to the target location. In addition to partition resizing, on-the-fly manipulations possible with the invention include cluster resizing, defragmentation, file relocation, and others. Novel image file formats suitable for on-the-fly manipulations are also described.

Computer partition manipulation during imaging

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Andy Vincent Lawrence