Hitachi, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

3m Innovative Properties Company

Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd.

Shinji Kimura

Hiroshi Takao

Ikuko Kobayashi

Kenji Ikezawa

Shigeo Ishitani

Akihisa Nagami

Yoshio Akimune

Hiroyuki Aoki

Yumiko Sugita

Satoshi Oshima

Satoshi Ambe

Akira Yamamoto

Masaaki Uchida

Yukio Ogawa

Masahide Sato

Toshiaki Arai

Mitsuru Ikezawa

Kenjiro Mori

Hisashi Hashimoto

Teiji Karasaki

Eriko Koda

Shouji Nakamura

Ayumi Mikuma

Toshikazu Umezu

Junji Ogawa

Shigeru Watanabe

Takatoshi Kato

Takashi Tsunehiro

Akio Hayashi

Satoshi Kikuchi

Yoshiyuki Nakayama

Paul E Hansen

James Stephen Mrozinski

Yasuo Hirata

Fumio Noda

Koji Ozawa

Masahiro Shiraishi

Daisuke Yokota

Fumio Munakata

Satoru Ichikawa

Hiroshi Mine

Hirofumi Inomata

Hiroji Shibuya

Steven J Perron

Masami Hiramatsu

Toshiyuki Kuwana

Naoyuki Toriumi

Takashi Inagawa

Kiyokazu Saigo

Kazunori Oniki

Masayuki Touda

Hiroshi Kinukawa

Fumio Yukawa

Yukinobu Mizoguchi

Reki Yamamoto

Kaoru Konishi

Naohisa Seko

Yoshihisa Matsuda

Masayuki Tosaka

Koki Sone

Masayuki Tohda

Yasuhide Inoue

Kenji Koichi

Makoto Yamanouchi

Kioshi Kunihiro

Yasuo Yajima

Masato Kondo

Masayoshi Takasugi

Tomokazu Ikki

Masato Manda

Keisuke Yamane

An elastic laminate sheet with excellent elasticity while maintaining softness and favorable appearance including surface feel and the like, an article containing this elastic laminate sheet, a laminate sheet where a high elasticity laminate portion is the elastic laminate sheet, and an article containing the laminate sheet.

Elastic laminate sheet

A fastening tab is provided having a substrate with a main portion, a user's end portion extending from the main portion, a primary mechanical fastening patch having a side edge coterminous with the side edge of the user's end portion of the substrate, and first and second auxiliary mechanical fastening patches on the main portion of the substrate. A method of making a fastening tab is also disclosed. The method includes attaching multiple discrete patches of mechanical fastener to a substrate web extending in the machine direction, cutting through the substrate web and the multiple patches of mechanical fastener in the machine direction with a continuous, meandering cut to provide two sub-webs, and optionally providing cross-web direction cuts through each sub-web to provide a plurality of fastening tabs. An absorbent article including the fastening tab and webs of fastening tabs are also included.

Fastening tab and method of making the same

In this video delivery device including: a storage device storing key frame information including a key frame number included in a contents file and offset from the beginning of a file; and a delivery control unit, which executes delivery in a predetermined cycle, the delivery control unit refers to the key frame information cycle by cycle in executing the trick play, and transmits the key frame having the offset closest to the delivery time among the key frames included in the contents file.

Video delivery device, video receiver and key frame delivery method

A computer system uses a virus-scan method capable of full-scanning the logical volume of a SUTOSEN PC with high frequency while limiting the number of virus-scan devices. The computer system includes a primary volume storing data from a personal computer, a snapshot volume storing the status of the primary volume at a given point in time, and a save destination volume storing an updated memory area within the primary volume as information on an updated block address reflected in a bitmap. The updated block address corresponds to a memory area within the primary volume. The computer system detects only an updated file in the primary volume from the snapshot volume and the save destination volume, creates an updated volume for storing a relevant updated file, and thereby executes a virus-scan on the updated volume.

Computer system and virus-scan method

A master management system includes a duty master creating part that counts the number of users in each group of same-attribute users who desire to use each of the applications, that identifies the applications each of which the number of users desiring to use is equal to or larger than a predetermined number, that creates and stores a master in a master management database of a storage device; and an individual setting part that identifies virtualization-possible applications of the applications each of which the number of users desiring to use is equal to or smaller than the predetermined number, and that sets data on users desiring to use the virtualization-possible applications in the distribution destination list of a distributing server.

Master management system, master management method, and master management program

A management device selects a storage device having a plenty of unallocated storage regions, selects a target using a port having a small allocation quantity from the storage device targets, and allocates the target, an initiator, and a storage region. When the number of targets and the allocated storage regions prepared by the storage device is within a predetermined number, the storage device manages the storage device as an allocation candidate. When the predetermined number is exceeded, the exceeding one is excluded from the allocation candidate. When the number of storage devices excluded from the allocation candidate has reached a certain number, the management device manages a new storage device and a new storage region as an allocation candidate.

Volume allocation method

A invented computer system has a plurality of computer boards; a plurality of terminals, each of which is coupled to each of the computer boards respectively via a network; a storage device having a plurality of storage areas, which is coupled to each of the computer boards; and a management computer; and wherein the management computer manages a correspondence between a user information and the storage area, and when a use request of the computer board is transmitted from a terminal, the management computer selects a usable computer board to turn on a power, reads information necessary to start the computer board from the storage corresponding to the transmitted user information, allows the computer board to start based on the read information, and notifies the terminal of information on the started computer board and identification information on the network allocated to the started computer board.

Computer system for selecting a useable computer board to power on and accessing corresponding storage based on terminal request that includes user information

Provided is an information system for preserving data of a storage device in a computer that repeats the connection to and disconnection from a communication network. The computer acquires data to be written into the storage device and manages the update status of the storage device, transfers the data written into the storage device to the storage controller independent from the writing of data into the storage device when the computer is in a communicable state with the storage controller, and discontinues the transfer of data written into the storage device to the storage controller and manages the transfer status when the computer is not in a communicable state with the storage controller.

Information system and information storage method of information system

The system management servermakes a request to the virus detection and removal serverfor virus detection processing on a specified primary volume of the storage system. The virus detection and removal serverexecutes virus detection processing on the requested primary volume and the secondary volume that forms the volume pair at the storage system. Even during virus detection processing on the storage system, it is possible for the centric PCsandto continue write and read processing on the requested primary volume.

Operation management system for a diskless computer

The invention enables the control of the information in a storage unit in a user terminal, prevents data from leaking to unauthorized users and protects information in the user terminal. A management OS manages the input/output to/from a user work OS in the user terminal, identifies a control-triggering condition set by a management server, controls the information in the storage unit storing the user work OS-related information so that information leakage can be prevented, and it also backs up the user work OS-related information to the storage apparatus using the user work OS input/output information.

Storage unit information control system for user terminal

To provide a technique whereby a user can carry out operations in the same operating environment, regardless of whether the user uses a computer inside a network system, or uses a terminal outside the network system. A network system comprises: a first computer used by a designated user; and a plurality of second computers capable of being shared by a plurality of users. A management device, if a storage device is utilized by the first computer, allows the first computer to connect to a designated storage area and execute the boot-up program stored therein. The management device, if the storage device is utilized by an external terminal used by the designated user, allows one designated computer selected from the plurality of second computers to connect to the designated storage area and execute the boot-up program, and allows the external terminal to connect to the designated computer.

Utilization of storage device from external terminal in network system

A storage management system for managing, in a computer system, access to a storage area for storing data, the computer system includes: a storage system that provides the storage area; a host computer system that mounts the storage area of the storage system via a network; and a maintenance system that performs maintenance for the storage area of the storage system, the storage management system includes: a mounting decision module that decides, according to a preestablished maintenance schedule, whether the host computer system is currently mounting the storage area of the storage system; a maintenance instruction module that instructs the maintenance system to execute the scheduled maintenance when the mounting decision module decides that the host computer system is not currently mounting the storage area; a host-on detecting module that detects a boot of the host computer system; a maintenance decision module that decides whether the maintenance system is currently performing the maintenance for the storage area when the host-on detecting module detects the boot of the host computer system; and a mounting enabling module that enables the host computer system to mount the storage area of the storage system when the maintenance decision module decides that the maintenance system is not currently performing the maintenance for the storage area.

Management of access to storage area of storage system

The present invention provides a technique of controlling cache operation on a node device in a computer system that enables transmission and receipt of data between clients and a storage device via the node device. In accordance with a first control method, the data stored in the storage device includes attribute data, as to whether or not the data is cacheable. This application enables the node device to relay non-cacheable data without process of the cache. In accordance with a second control method, the node device encrypts the data when caching the data in the disk. In accordance with a third control method, non-cacheable data is transmitted and received directly without going through the node device. These applications enable the cache in the node device to be restricted, and thereby ensure security.

Cache control method for node apparatus

For a computer system that includes a storage system and a management computer, the storage system includes a first storage area, for storing data used by a computer connected to the storage system, and a second storage area, for storing a duplicate of the data included in the first storage area. The management computer includes first management information, for managing the frequency at which the data in the first storage area are copied. When the management computer receives a notification indicating the first storage area has been unmounted from another computer, the management computer employs the first management information for determining whether the data in the first storage area should be copied. Then, when the data should be copied, the first storage area is mounted on the computer and the data in the first storage area are copied to the second storage area.

Computer system for managing backup of storage apparatus and backup method of the computer system

A service AP conducting ordinary business processing is executed on a first OS. The first OS includes an operation recording controller for recording operation conducted by the first OS as operation recording information together with time when the operation is conducted, and an auxiliary driver for accepting and executing external processing. A multi-OS controller interface included in a second OS, which is higher in reliability than the first OS, operates a multi-OS controller from an AP operating on the second OS. An analysis and prediction AP operating on the second OS analyzes states of the first OS and the service AP, and detects a failure sign. Upon detecting a failure sign, degrade operation of the OS or service AP to be analyzed, preparations for switching from an active system to a stand-by system, and actual switching are conducted before the failure occurs.

Computer system and detecting method for detecting a sign of failure of the computer system

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Sagamihara, Japan

Shinji Kimura