Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Richard Urmston

Mark Rambacher

Christopher Hercules Claudatos

William Dale Andruss

Deepak Narain

William R McConnell

John Louis Acott

A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory data, comparing a portion of the auditory data to a lexicon comprising a plurality of keywords to determine if there is a match to a keyword from the lexicon, and if a match is found, selecting at least one video sensor to monitor an area to be monitored. Video data from the video sensor is archived with the auditory data and metadata. The video sensor is selected by determining video sensors associated with the areas to be monitored. A lookup table is used to determine the association. Cartesian coordinates may be used to determine positions of components and their areas of coverage.

Video surveillance

A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing an object are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises managing an object having content, in a system having a dynamic policy selector configured with at least one analytic policy applied to evaluate the content of the object. The object is associated to an information management policy. Classification levels may be used, in which classification levels are associated to information management policies and objects are associated with classification levels. Objects containing certain elements or related elements may be associated to form an information group, to which information management policies may be applied as a group. Storage pools may be used for managing objects with similar classification levels or information protection policies.

Storage pools for information management

Information management

Implementing application specific management policies on a content addressed storage device is disclosed. In one embodiment, each data object stored on the content addressed storage device is associated with one of a plurality of data sets. A corresponding data set specific management policy is associated with at least each of a subset of said plurality of data sets. The applicable data set specific management policy is applied to the data objects of each data set with which a corresponding data set specific management policy has been associated.

Implementing application specific management policies on a content addressed storage device

A content addressed storage device configured to maintain content address mapping is disclosed. A data object to be stored on the content addressed storage device and a local data object identifier by which the data object is known to the sending source are received from a sending source. A content address to be associated with the data object on the content addressed storage device is determined based at least in part on the contents of the data object. The data object is stored on the content addressed storage device in a storage location associated with the content address. A mapping that associates the local data object identifier with the content address is maintained on the content addressed storage device.

Content addressed storage device configured to maintain content address mapping

Storing data is disclosed. All base data is copied from a first storage device to a master set on a second storage device. A request is received to write data to a specified location on the first storage device. An indication is stored in a list that the data at the specified location has changed. At a specified base time and using the stored indication, a replica of the data stored at the specified location as of that time is sent to a remote host associated with the second storage device. The remote host is configured to make and store a copy of the base data stored in the specified location in the master set prior to merging the replica data into the master set.

Storing data replicas remotely

Archiving of surveillance data

A system and method for managing resource groups in a computer system having automatic availability capability is shown. In one embodiment, a method is provided which may be performed in a computer system comprising a plurality of resources, a monitor for monitoring the plurality of resources, a first computer comprising at least one of the plurality of resources, and a second computer connected to the first computer by at least one communication medium. The method, performed by an administrator, comprises configuring a resource group that comprises the at least one of the plurality of resources via the second computer, without the administrator logging into the first computer.

System and method for configuring resource groups

Efficient monitoring system and method

A method and system is provided for managing resource groups in a computer system having an automatic availability capability. In one embodiment, a method is provided which may be performed in a computer system comprising a plurality of resources, a monitor for monitoring at least some of the plurality of resources, an agent to configure resource groups, each resource group specifying a group of resources to be monitored by the monitor, and a graphical user interface (GUI) that communicates with the monitor and provides an interface for a user to monitor a resource group. The method comprises: (A) providing, via the GUI, customized presentations to the user for monitoring resource groups of different types so that the GUI provides different presentations to the user in monitoring different types of resource groups.

System and method for the administration of resource groups

A system and method is provided for managing resource groups in a computer system having an automatic availability capability. In one embodiment, a method is provided which may be performed in a computer system comprising a plurality of resources, a monitor for monitoring at least some of the plurality of resources, and an agent to configure resource groups, each resource group specifying a group of resources to be monitored by the monitor. The method comprises: (A) receiving a request from a requestor, at the agent, to configure at least one requested resource group; and (B) determining whether at least one characteristic of the at least one requested resource group is valid.

System and method for validating resource groups

A system and method is provided for managing resource groups in a computer system having automatic availability capability. In one embodiment, a method is provided which may be performed in a computer system comprising a plurality of resources, a monitor for monitoring at least some of the plurality of resources, and an agent to configure resource groups, each resource group specifying a group of resources to be monitored by the monitor. The method comprises: (A) in response to a request from a requestor, received by the agent, to configure at least a portion of a resource group, the request specifying at least one parameter of the at least a portion of the resource group, determining at least one characteristic of at least one of the plurality of resources that satisfies the at least one parameter; and (B) presenting to the requestor the at least one characteristic determined in (A) to satisfy the at least one parameter.

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Westborough, MA, United States of America

Richard Urmston